Following an advice from Cyrille Martraire, I just finished reading On Writing Well: a non-fiction guide written 35 years ago. Reading this book helps me to realize there are lots of similarities between writing code and non-fiction. The arrogant guy “A simple style is the result of hard work and hard thinking. A muddled […]
Patterns, Principles, and Practices of Domain-Driven Design was written by Scott Milett and Nick Tune. It gives a holistic view of DDD, from strategic to tactical patterns, and provides many examples to explain the concepts. This book was presented to me by Bruno Boucard in this way : « It’s a […]
I believe software development is a fantastic job. It’s always challenging, accessible to anyone, and generates good revenues. There are several books dealing with “how you can be a successful developer”, but very few give life advices. Soft Skills by John Sonmez is one of them. Success ? The book talks […]
In the excellent thinking fast and slow by Daniel Kanheman, the author proposes a representation of our mind with 2 systems: – System 1 is fast, but also prone to errors mainly due to biases – System 2 is slow, and can overcome some limitations of system 1, but we […]
This a book full of good advices: “The Passionate Programmer: Creating a Remarkable Career in Software Development” Chad Fowler (former Jazzman), gives a lot of little simple advices. Concrete examples that you can do daily to create a remarkable career. This is clearly a book for passionate programmer, but you […]