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Book Review: Essential LINQ

During my recent vacation, I read the final print version of Essential LINQ , by Charlie Calvert and Dinesh Kulkarni. Normally, I try to answer the question, “Who should read this book?” That answer eluded...

Posted 13 July 2009 11:08 AM by wwagner | with no comments

Filed under: LINQ, C#, books, C# General, DevCenterPosts, BookReviews

Book Review: Mike Cohn X 2

I’m covering two books by Mike Cohn in this post: User Stories Applied , and Agile Estimating and Planning . I’m reviewing them together because I read both of them at the same time, and some of the content...

Posted 09 February 2009 10:08 PM by wwagner | 2 comment(s)

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Notes from Poppendieck “Value Stream Mapping”

Wow.  I went to Mary Poppendieck’s CodeMash Precompiler talk on Value Stream Mapping. That was great. It’s rare that I take 5 pages of notes during one conference session. To be fair, the precompiler...

Posted 07 January 2009 03:02 PM by wwagner | 2 comment(s)

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A question on the Kindle

Dear readers, I noticed that More Effective C# is available on a Kindle edition . I don’t have a kindle, and I’m curious what people think of the experience with a programming book in a Kindle edition...

Posted 06 November 2008 11:05 AM by wwagner | with no comments

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Book Review: Working with Legacy Code by Michael Feathers

  I don’t think Working With Legacy Code gets the respect and readership that it should.  I believe that’s because most of us have a working definition of legacy code that implies something we...

Posted 31 October 2008 08:41 AM by wwagner | 2 comment(s)

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Yet another Book Post: The C# Programming Language 3rd Edition (Annotated)

I was recently notified that the 3rd edition of the C# Programming Language is out. This version has is new in several ways. Obviously, it includes a description of all the new C# 3.0 language features...

Posted 23 October 2008 11:52 AM by wwagner | 1 comment(s)

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More Effective C# available now

Today is the official release date for More Effective C# . Writing a book may seem to be a solitary activity, but nothing could be further from the truth. I have been lucky enough to work with fantastic...

Posted 17 October 2008 05:00 PM by wwagner | 4 comment(s)

Filed under: Effective C#, LINQ, Me, C#, books, C# General

Rough Cuts available for "More Effective C#"

OK, this is why my blogging activity has slowed to a crawl, or downright stopped lately. I've been working quite a bit on my next book: More Effective C#. It's getting closer, and it's now...

Posted 16 May 2008 03:35 PM by wwagner | 1 comment(s)

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Book Review: Mary & Tom Poppendieck

Implementing Lean Software Development: From Concept to Cash A while back, I read Mary and Tom Poppendieck's "Implementing Lean Software Development: From Concept to Cash". That tag line...

Posted 28 June 2007 03:18 PM by wwagner | with no comments

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Review of Poppendieck's Lean Software Development: An Agile Approach

A great book for convincing your company, or your customers, more agile A little more than a month ago, at CodeMash, I had the pleasure of spending quite a bit of time with Mary & Tom Poppendieck discussing...

Posted 13 March 2007 04:10 PM by wwagner | with no comments

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Hoping nothing was lost in the translation

Effective C# is available in Hungarian I got yet another suprise from Addison Wesley in the mail yesterday. This one contained a copy of Effective C# in Hungarian: If you prefer to read in Hungarian, you...

Posted 31 August 2005 11:34 PM by wwagner | with no comments

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Another Book Review

.NET Framework Standard Library Annotated Reference Vol II I received a care package from Addison-Wesley the other day: My reviewer copy of the .NET Framework Standard Library Annotated Reference, Vol...

Posted 30 August 2005 05:38 AM by wwagner | with no comments

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Pearson book promotion at Barnes and Noble online

A brief commercial interlude Barnes & Noble online is running a promotion with Pearson Publishing. Pearson is the parent company for several notable names in the tech publishing business: Addison-Wesley...

Posted 25 August 2005 07:49 PM by wwagner | with no comments

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Yet another book review

Balena & DiMauro: Practical Guidelines and Best Practices for Visual Basic and Visual C# Developers. Yes, I have been reading quite a bit. This is a very good book for relative newcomers to .NET development...

Posted 16 August 2005 05:07 PM by wwagner | with no comments

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Book Preview

Or, is it a review? Brad Abrams and Krzysztof Cwalina have finished writing "Framework Design Guidelines: Conventions, Idioms, and Patterns for Reusable .NET Libraries". I was lucky enough to...

Posted 14 August 2005 11:38 PM by wwagner | with no comments

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