Notes

My summaries of books I've read and liked. Mostly business / programming stuff in here.

• Are Your Lights On? (Donald Gause)
  How to effectively problem solve
  
  
• Becoming a Technical Leader (Gerry Weinberg)
• Code Complete (Steve McConnell)
  Classic opus on slinging code
  
  
• Flying the Coop (Nigel J. A. Bristow)
  An okay-ish book about freeing ourselves from mental jails
  
  
• Inspired (Marty Cagan)
• Kanban (David J. Anderson)
• Managing Programmers (Douglas Crockford)
  My take interesting bits of this presentation
  
  
• Peopleware (Tom DeMarco and Timothy Lister)
• Release It (Michael Nygard)
• Richard Hamming - Discreet Systems (Richard Hamming)
• Simply Effective (Ron Ashkenas)
• Skunk Works (Ben Rich)
• Smart & Gets Things Done (Joel Spolsky)
• Systems Engineering (Richard Hamming)
• The Design of Design (Fred Brooks)
  A great read on modern design, collaboration and pitfalls.
  
  
• The Unwritten Laws of Engineering (W.J. King)
• The Year Without Pants (Scott Berkun)
• What Is Software Design (Jack Reeves)
• You Get What You Measure (Richard Hamming)
• You and Your Research (Richard Hamming)