Book review section added

Posted on April 25, 2010 | 05:20:38 PM

Over the years, I have managed to collect quite a number of books on virtually any topic related to software development. Many of them rather serve as a reference while others have been read completely. Certainly, the quality of books varies heavily even though I always try to pick what appears to be the most promising ones.

While I enjoy keeping in sync with the advancements in software development, given the sheer amount of books as well as their "weight" (who can read 1,000 pages in an afternoon), it becomes harder and harder to keep up. Finding the pearls within the mass certainly prevents wasting time reading poorly written books.

To help others, I decided to add a book review section where I will post reviews for the books I have either completely read or used heavily as a reference. In other words, books that I feel confident knowing enough about to actually have a mind of my own. Even though I have read many books already, I almost never actually wrote a review unless someone specifically asked me to review a particluar book.

The review section is expected to grow over time; receiving reviews for both older and newer books. While I usually try to evaluate any book as objective as I can be, there is certainly a lot subjectivity incorporated at the same time. I may like or dislike books that others may find the greatest or worst book in history on any given topic. This is expected since naturally I have a distinct set of properties to consider a book worthwile or not—and this may differ from your set.

The goal is rather to provide another opinion in order to help decide whether or not a particluar book would be a valuable read. It is certainly not meant to be the only opinion you should take into account before actually buying the book.