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Building Spring 2 Enterprise Applications

Building Spring 2 Enterprise Applications Interface21, Bram Smeets, Seth Ladd (2007) This book is an excellent nuts and bolts introduction to the Spring 2.0 framework. It covers the core (DI/IoC)...

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How To Break Web Software – Reviewed

How to Break Web Software Functional and Security Testing of Web Applications and Web Services, by Mike Andrews and James A. Whittaker Published 2006   Contains recipes for 24 different hacks.  Most of...

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The Passionate Programmer

The Passionate Programmer Book Review Creating a Remarkable Career in Software Development, by Chad Fowler – Published 2009 Revised and updated second edition of “My Job Went to India: 52 Ways To Save...

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Geekonomics – Software that kills

I just finished reading the book Geekonomics  – the real cost of insecure software. The book sums up commercial software development from a business perspective succinctly: “Don’t worry, be crappy.”...

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Primal Leadership Book Review

Nine years later Primal Leadership still stands up as an interesting read on leadership strategies. My boss recommended it to me, part of the coaching strategy discussed below. Although this does not...

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Software Productivity, Change, and Peopleware

Peopleware – Book Review Peopleware 2nd Edition Productive Projects and Teams By Tom Demarco and Timothy Lister Peopleware is a timeless book on the human side of making software. We have all...

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JavaScript the Good Parts – Review

First, let’s start with a little joke about JavaScript: See the difference?   This book is targeted at helping readers understand the ‘low level’ implementation details of JavaScript. The code examples...

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Software Careers for the Future

Today’s topic is success as software professionals.  Many important lessons on this subject can be found in an unlikely place – Colin Powell’s auto-biography “My American Journey”, published in 1995....

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Will the Future of Software be more or less ‘Free’ ?

When it comes to software, one of the wonderful things about it is, there is generally zero cost to add an additional user to an already built system.   The effort that went into the system can be...

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Flash Boys by Michael Lewis

For anyone interested in code, networking, and finance, Flash Boys is a real page turner. For me personally, with interests in all three, it sent chills up my spine. I could not put it down!!! Flash...

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