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1.The Mythical Man Month and Other Essays on Software Engineering by: Frederick P. Brooks August 08, 1995
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For sure the Mythical Man Month was a seminal essay back then. This is worth reading for sure. But the rest of the book is very out of date, and very repetitive. It gets a bit wearing too hearing the old line that hardware has advanced a thousand fold and software hasn't. Er, played any computer games lately? I'd recommend reading the Mythical Man Month elsewhere if you can find it online and save the time, money, and effort reading the whole book. Time better spent reading a book on Agile, or XP I would think.

2.Patterns of Enterprise Application Architecture (The Addison-Wesley signature series) by: Martin Fowler November 15, 2002
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Good book. Covers a lot of ground and gives a good survey of the field. Time is on its back, however. The use of web frameworks such as Struts or Spring, and the use of ORM tools such as Hibernate or JPA makes much of the book "redundant". Such tools although solving a lot of practical problems, also introduces many new ones. Maybe a new edition of the book should cover such ground.

3.MCTS Self-Paced Training Kit (Exam 70-536): Microsoft® .NET Framework 2.0—Application Development Foundation: Microsoft.NET Framework 2.0 Application ... Foundation (Pro-Developer (Hardcover)) by: with Bill Ryan of GrandMasters Tony Northrup and Shawn Wildermuth June 16, 2006
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I've been developing .Net applications since version 1.0 and wanted to use this book to polish what I know and fill in any gaps. Unfortunately this book has proved to be almost of no use whatsoever. The first hard lesson to learn is that the book MUST be read alongside the substantial list of corrections available on the Microsoft website. If you don't heed this warning you quickly form the opinion that not only has the book not been proof read by a third person but that it's not even be proof read by the authors. The second major problem is that the combination of authors working on the book has led to an inconsistent style and tone. In one section you might be hand held through an exercise as if you don't know what the ... Read More:

4.MCTS Self-Paced Training Kit (Exam 70-236): Configuring Microsoft® Exchange Server 2007: Configuring Microsoft Exchange Server 2007: Exam 70-236 (PRO-Certification) by: Orin Thomas and Ian McLean November 05, 2007
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First the negatives + Loads of mainly minor editing mistakes everywhere, the main body of the text and Q+A at the end of every chapter, + The additional tests on the CD are pretty good, but annoyingly the Q+A are not alligned with the book. In most cases you have to go through 2 chapters before being able to test yourself. + In the last chapter LCR is not taken through its logical conclusion. + The online site does not provide an errata/corrections list. Postives + Covers the material well enough + Each chapter has at its end a Q+A section, to re-enforce learning. + You get Exchange 2007 32bit+64bit on to DVD plus additional questions on a CD. + loads of screenshots, text pretty easy ... Read More:

5.Computer Systems Architecture: A Networking Approach by: Rob Williams August 30, 2006
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This is a fantsatic book for the beginner into Computer Systems Architecture. I'm currently doing a Software Engineering Masters and this book was invaluable in completing the module. It's well written and fully comprehensive in its detail. It suites those who wish to just have an overview of the subject and also those who want in depth detail. Brilliant!

6.SOA Principles of Service Design (Prentice Hall Service-Oriented Computing Series from Thomas Erl) by: Thomas Erl August 02, 2007
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Great book! Thomas Erl documents a set of guidelines for effective design decisions to make SOA real. This book fills the gap between the pubblications that cover SOA in pure conceptual terms and those that deal with the details of web service implementations. Each chapter cuts through the hype of SOA by giving clear definitions, guidelines, and metrics that link the conceptual, logical and physical aspects of a Service Oriented Architecture. This series is going to become for SOA what "Design patterns" of the "Gang of Four" has been for Object Oriented design. I am looking forward to reading the next pubblication: SOA Patterns.

7.Code: The Hidden Language (DV-Undefined) by: Charles Petzold December 01, 2000
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Charles Petzold is an excellent writer, and he gets to grips with difficult material in a way that makes it accessible for the uninitiated. I have worked as a computer programmer for years, but, having grown up with 'high level' programming languages, most of the material here was new to me. The book will fill in some very important gaps for a lot of IT professionals. Meanwhile, it is perfectly readable for someone completely new to the subject (a couple of chapters will be tough going, but you'll get it if you persist). Top marks.

8.IT Essentials: PC Hardware and Software Companion Guide (Cisco Networking Academy Progm) by: David Anfinson, Kenneth Quamme January 31, 2008
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Charles Petzold is an excellent writer, and he gets to grips with difficult material in a way that makes it accessible for the uninitiated. I have worked as a computer programmer for years, but, having grown up with 'high level' programming languages, most of the material here was new to me. The book will fill in some very important gaps for a lot of IT professionals. Meanwhile, it is perfectly readable for someone completely new to the subject (a couple of chapters will be tough going, but you'll get it if you persist). Top marks.

9.Computer Organization and Design, Revised Printing, Third Edition: The Hardware/Software Interface (The Morgan Kaufmann Series in Computer Architecture and Design) by: David Patterson July 13, 2007
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if you want to be a good software Engineer then this is the book that will help you learn a lot about hardware and software, its great

10.Making Things Talk: Practical Methods for Connecting Physical Objects by: Tom Igoe September 28, 2007
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I've recently got into the Arduino microcontroller, it's a really useful little gadget and I'd mastered the basics of it: turning on LEDs, simple serial communication with an LCD display and other basic electronics but I thought I'd bitten off more than I could chew when I bought a bluetooth module to hook the arduino up wirelessly with my computer. Not so! This book is brilliant and one of the projects early on in the book covered exactly what I needed to know. The projects are detailed and all the code is provided (although it would be better if it was on a CD as well). It has really pushed me to the next level!!

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