Simon Fell > Its just code > Reading

Sunday, May 25, 2003

I read a lot of technical books, here are a few of my recent reads that I liked. (in no particular order)

• Programming the Microsoft Windows Driver Model (Walter Oney)
• Windows Forms Programming in C# (Chris Sells)
• Beyond Fear (Bruce Schneier)
• Loosely Coupled (Doug Kay)
• Essential ASP.NET (Fritz Onion)
• Essential .NET volume 1 (Don Box)
• .NET Web Services: Architecture and Implementation with .NET (Keith Ballinger)
• More Exceptional C++ (Herb Sutter)
• Advanced .NET Remoting (Ingo Rammer)
• Definitive XML Schema (Priscilla Walmsley)
• Effective STL (Scott Meyers)
• Transactional COM+ (Tim Ewald)
• C# Essentials (Peter Drayton & co)
• Essential IDL (Martin Gudgen)
• ASP Internals (John Flanders)
• Secrets & Lies (Bruce Schneier)
• Planning Extreme Programming (Kent Beck, Martin Fowler)
• Network Security Private communication in a public world (Charlie Kaufman, Radia Perlman & Mike Speciner)
• The Pragmatic Progammer (Andrew Hunt & David Thomas), I liked this so much, i brought copies for everyone on my team.
• Programming Windows Security (Keith Brown)
• Essential XML (Don Box, Aaron Skonnard & John Lam)
• Exceptional C++ (Herb Sutter)
• Debugging Applications (John Robbins)

• Windows Forms Programming in C#
• Mac OSX for Unix Geeks
• Applied .NET Framework Programming (Jeffrey Richter)