This post has a selection of software engineering books I’ve found to be particularly useful. Why Books? The internet is great and there are plenty of blog posts and MOOCs online, so why bother with books? For me there are a few reasons: books by their nature bring together knowledge on a particular theme from… Read More »
I’ve long been a believer in the idea that practice makes slightly better – perfection may well be out of reach for many of us, but with practice we can at least improve ourselves and our skills and become slightly better. In this post I look at some of the key messages from the book… Read More »
Books for Dealing With People I’ve written before about how dealing with people does not necessarily come naturally to people. Just like any other skill we must learn and practise to improve. In that spirit, here are three more books for dealing with people. Hopefully these books will help to give you a framework for… Read More »
I’m definitely not alone in finding the second world war fascinating. Here are some books about WW2 that I’ve really enjoyed. Band of Brothers Band of Brothers is the book behind the HBO TV series of the same name. A fan of the series, I wasn’t surprised to enjoy the book too. What the book… Read More »
People for Scientists There’s more than a small amount of truth in the stereotype that scientists aren’t very good with people. But does it have to be this way? Maybe some people find it all very easy, but if your anything like me you’ll find other people something of a mystery. Over the years I’ve… Read More »