Lars Wilhelmsen » Books

Amazon–; BookShelf++;

larsw — Fri, 15 May 2009 11:54:41 +0000

From time to time, I need to “restock” my book shelfs, e.g. order a batch of Computer Science-related books from Amazon.

I placed a new order on Thursday and hopefully I’ll get them all during the week to come.

	xUnit Test Patterns: Refactoring Test Code Author: Gerard Meszaros Hardcover, 833 pages Published: 2007
	Continuous Integration: Improving Software Quality and Reducing Risk Authors: Paul M. Duvall et al. Paperback, 336 pages Published: 2007
	Refactoring to Patterns Author: Joshua Kerievsky Hardcover, 400 pages Published: 2004
	Semantic Web Primer Authors: Antoniou et al. Hardcover, 288 pages Published: 2008 (Second edition)

So, if the math’s correct, that’ll be 1857 pages of fun to get through this summer

The book shelf of a Connected Systems MVP

larsw — Tue, 12 May 2009 18:14:15 +0000

A few days ago, Gøran Hansen of Capgemini and a an active member of the Norwegian Microsoft scene – as well as active in the Twittersphere, wrote a blog post called “A Software Craftsman’s Bookshelf” containing a picture of his book shelf with Software Development-related books, as well as a brief review of the titles. He tagged a bunch of other people – including me, so here’s my contribution to this book shelf meme

(I actually wonder why a UI-geek like Gøran chose a dull jpeg for visualizing his book shelf, so I’m stepping up – to show off that Mr. Non-UI guy can use the Stitch functionality in Deep Zoom Composer. The final product is hosted on DeepZoomPix – a Microsoft site for hosting Deep Zoom pictures.)

Update: Seems like the stupid wordpress.com blog hosting strips javascripts and object tags, so until I’ll get around to move this blog to a more sane hosting provider, I’ll have to put up a preview picture that hyperlinks to the DeepZoomPix site

(A click on the image will bring you to the real Deep Zoom image)

I actually thought about rotating the stitched picture counter-clockwise, so that the titles of the books would be easier to read, but I postphoned it to a moment when I have more time to stuff like this

A description of the books + Amazon links, as well as a list of people I’d like to tag will be added later.

Ordered 3 books from Amazon today

larsw — Mon, 01 Sep 2008 19:42:27 +0000

If Amazon’s estimate is correct, I will have them in my mail box by September 15th. I already have some other titles by Robert C. Martin, and hopefully these two titles is just as good. Release It! … was added to the shopping basket as a result of a review I read in a blog post that I’ve already have forgot the origin of.