The following is a list of excellent books that every developer should read. I have focused on technology-agnostic books as I find them the most valuable. I have read every book on this list and recommend them without reservation. As I read more, I'll update this list. At bottom, you'll also...

I'm drilling pretty deeply into Lean these days. Scott Bellware turned me on to some of the more primary sources about lean manufacturing (Ben Scheirman does a good job of summarizing these books based on a recent conversation at ALT.NET). Since then we've had a bit of an "asynchronous book...

During my geekSpeak screencast last week, one of the attendees asked: Any recommendations for refactoring existing code to insert interfaces? (e.g., what's the best dependency to break first, the database?) Excellent question! Most of us do not have the luxury of working on greenfield projects, but...

Today at lunch* I'll be joining Glen Gordon and Lynn Langit on geekSpeak to talk about Taming Your Software Dependencies. Specifically I'll be talking about moving from tightly-coupled to loosely-coupled architectures using dependency inversion, dependency injection, and inversion of control...

My latest article just hit the web in the March 2008 issue of MSDN Magazine. Loosen Up: Tame Your Software Dependencies for More Flexible Apps takes you on a journey from a highly-coupled architecture, which we're all familiar with, to gradually more loosely-coupled ones. First stop is the problems...

DISCLAIMER: For the agilists reading this post, there is nothing new here. I just hear a lot of misconceptions around terms like YAGNI and wanted to provide my own take on things. YAGNI is an acronym for "you ain't gonna need it". You often hear it bandied about agile shops. One developer...

In my last post I offered a concise snapshot of how I'm practicing Behavior-Driven Development. Based on feedback, it was probably a little too concise and meta to provide any kind of valuable takeaways or discussion points, so I'm going to unpack what I said there over a few, more-specific posts...

This is just a message to those people who are interested in attending next months Nothin But .Net session in Austin, TX. There are only 6 spots left. Tell your friends, tell your co-workers. This session promises to be an absolute blast. The attendance roster is varied and will provide for lots of interesting...

Just finished reading an excellent blogpost by Jonathan Rasmusson . I think we can all identify with a lot of the information in this post!! This is a good post that you can forward to your PM if you think they have a false sense of security about what is going on in their project!!

After lots of requests, Nothin But .Net is finally coming to Austin,Texas!! I am sure that seats are going to sell out fast, so hurry and register here if you want a spot in what will surely be an amazing week of crazy coding!! Overview Nothin But .Net is a five day (intense) boot camp style course that...