I haven't read any of them yet, but O'Reilly has a new series of books that might be of interest. They all have titles like "Beautiful Teams", "Beautiful Architecture", "Beautiful Data", "Beautiful Testing", etc.
Maybe someone else has read one and can comment on their usefulness? Keith On Wed, Sep 9, 2009 at 12:12 PM, Robert Fox <[email protected]> wrote: > Since this list has librarians, hard core programmers and hybrid librarian > programmers on it, this is probably a good place to ask this sort of question. > > I'm looking for some book recommendations. I've read a lot of technical books > on how to work with specific kinds of technology, read a lot of online > technical "how tos" and that has been good as far as it goes. But, technology > changes too fast to be wed to one particular programming language, database > technology, metadata standard, etc. I'm interested in finding books that > speak to the issues of programming methodology, design principles, lessons > learned, etc. that transcend any particular programming technology. Are there > good books that distill the wisdom and experience of veteran developers and > /or communicate best practices for things like design patterns, overall > software architecture, learning from mistakes, the developer mindset and such > things? > > Could you recommend perhaps the top three or four books you've read in these > areas? > > Rob Fox > Hesburgh Libraries > University of Notre Dame >
