Understanding Software
Max Kanat-Alexander on simplicity, coding, and how to suck less as a programmer

I would not recommend this book. The author was the maintainer of an outdated issue tracking software and shares some not so insightful advice. Insightful takeaways: - Make developers feel appreciated. Be kind. - Make it easy for developers to get started. Include getting started documentation and labe......more

Very easy and short read with some geberal good info about the practice of writing software. Don't expect anything too in depth here as it seems primarily a collection of the author's blog posts.......more

Some very nice and clearly explained concepts of software design, explained in a conversational tone. I finally put my hands in a book about software design principles that does not put me to sleep, and that I actually did finish. Definitely, worth a read for any software developer out there!......more

A very good book on the practice of software development, written to focus not only on good code hygiene, both from a design standpoint (though this is not a design book) and a refactoring process standpoint, but also from a communication standpoint, since authoring software is, more often than not......more

This book contains a series of short essays on everything related to Software Engineering. Compared to Max's other book, Code Simplicity, this one is bigger, more comprehensive, and hence, covers more topics. If I had to pick only one thing from the book, it'd be: the difference between an average an......more