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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 is inter-twined in my own mind. Both books provide...

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 sessions are three hours, but still, that’s much...

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.  (Historically, the knock against the kindle...

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 want to avoid: We want to work on the cool new stuff...

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. In addition, a number of people were invited to...

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 editors, technical editors, and community members...

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

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

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 software development, agile methods, the...

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

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

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

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

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

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

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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...

Posted 02 August 2005 06:46 PM by wwagner | with no comments

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