Raymond Lewallen

Framework Design, Agile Coach, President Oklahoma City Developers Group, Microsoft MVP C#, TDD, Continuous Integration, Patterns and Practices, Domain Driven Design, Speaker, VB.Net, C# and Sql Server

Any book suggestions?

I'm still waiting on copies of Code Complete 2 and the Extreme Programming Pocket Guide to arrive at my doorstep. As you can see on the right, I'm re-reading some parts of my MSIL book. I personally don't like to read books that are language specific. I love books on patterns and practices and .Net framework. Any suggestions on a great book out there I can pick up that you've read and would give a "must read" review? I wonder what the people who write books read in their spare time, if they have any spare time. If you're smart and dedicated enough to write a book, what are you reading? Anything?

Currently listening to: Astounded - Tantric

Published Feb 22 2005, 06:04 AM by Raymond Lewallen

Filed under: Generalities

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Chris Wallace said:

I enjoyed Coder to Developer by Mike Gundelroy. http://www.codertodeveloper.com/

# February 22, 2005 6:14 AM

Scott Allen said:

I just started in on Patterns Of Enterprise Application Architecture. http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0321127420/qid=1109085394. I'm looking forward to spending some time with this book.

# February 22, 2005 7:24 AM

Darrell said:

Patterns of Enterprise Application Architecture by Martin Fowler.

# February 22, 2005 7:24 AM

Ranjan said:

Currently reading -
Agile Project management with Scrum - Ken Schwaber
Design Patterns Explained (Shalloway,Trott) - great book.
Also, re-reading Grady Booch in OO Analysis and Design with apps was fun last month. Maybe you can try these out.

# February 22, 2005 8:22 AM

JosephCooney said:

PoEAA is by Martin Fowler is good.

# February 22, 2005 8:37 AM

Daniel Moth said:

Looking at my recently read, very good (and language agnostic )books... "Maximizing .NET Performance" qualifies. I reviewed it on my blog:
http://www.danielmoth.com/Blog/2004/11/book-review.html

# February 22, 2005 2:58 PM

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About Raymond Lewallen

Working primarily in the public sector during his career, Raymond has designed and built several high profile enterprise level applications for all levels of the government. Raymond now works as a solutions architect for EMC. Raymond is an agile coach, Microsoft MVP C# and also president of the Oklahoma City Developers Group and Oklahoma Agile Developers Group. Raymond spends a lot of his time learning and teaching such things as Test Driven Development, Domain Driven Design, Design Patterns and Extreme Programming practices and principles, to name a few. Raymond is also an advocate of Alt.Net. Raymond is primarily a framework guy, so don't ask him anything about UI :)