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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 available on Rough Cuts. Rough Cuts is a Safari Books...

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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, "From Concept to Cash", is the thesis...

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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 software development, agile methods, the...

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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 can purchase the book here: The Effective C# Hungarian...

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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 2 (SLAR II). This is a reference book, and as such...

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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, Prentice Hall, and Sams are among their best...

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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. On the one hand, if you simply follow all...

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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 be one of the technical reviewers for this manuscript...

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Book Review
Keith Brown - The .NET Developer's Guide to Windows Security. This book is divided into six sections. Most important is “The Big Picture”. Every developer (whether you use .NET, or another platform) should understand this area. Next is...

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Need more books?
Fawcette Technical Publications is sponsoring discounts FTP has been working with several publishers (blantant plug) including Addison-Wesley, to help you fill up your bookshelf with more great titles (another blatant plug), including Effective C#. Check...

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Book Recommendation: Graphics Programming with GDI+
Just because a friend asked recently. A colleague of mine had some fairly detailed questions about graphics programming in .NET. My favorite refernce is Graphics Programming with GDI+, by Mahesh Chand . It's well writen, and covers a wealth of GDI...

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