The book covers almost all of the concepts in Scala in a very concise format. More emphasis on learning by doing. Lot of exercise problems at the end of each chapter. It is highly recommended to try them out. The… Read More ›
Books
Book Review: Clean Code by Robert Martin
Clean Code is all about the code already written, about the code you write and about the code to be written. If you are fan of Robert Martin’s books and his articles then you wouldn’t have missed this one. For those… Read More ›
Book Review: Test Driven Development by Example, Kent Beck
Test Driven Development by Example authored by Kent Beck covers the following: Writing Unit test backed code, takes teeny-tiny steps towards adding new code. Creating a test framework for running the tests- again by using TDD. Patterns related to Test… Read More ›
Book Review: Code Simplicity
I got to know about Code Simplicity: The Science of Software Development book via some O’Reilly promotion and bought an eBook for some $6 or Re. 300. Some good points: The most obvious good thing about this book is that… Read More ›
Books to read for the month of April
I have a few interesting titles lined up for this month: Test-Driven Development by Example, Kent Beck – Learning TDD by example, a fairly small book which gives me a lot of motivation to read it. The Java EE 6… Read More ›
Book Review: Essential Skills for the Agile Developer
This book does justice to its title and subtitle- it clearly tells you the basic design principles to write good code which is easy to read, debug and extend. At first glance the title may seem misleading as it uses the word “Agile Developer” but there isn’t much specific to agile in the book, though familiarity with terms like Scrum or Kanaban or TDD would be an added advantage.
Book Review: Apprenticeship Patterns
Here is a book which sounds different from its title: “Apprenticeship Patterns” but considering the complete title: “Guidance for the Aspiring Software Craftsman” would make some sense of what the book would be about. And then once you read the… Read More ›
Book Review: The Passionate Programmer written by Chad Fowler
I just happened to get to know about this book while browsing through the books on Flipkart and the book immediately caught my attention. So here’s my review of the book: First things first: Really cool cover page of the… Read More ›
Play Framework Cookbook review
In a previous post I had mentioned that I would be soon reviewing the Play Framework Cookbook. So here it is- Chapter-1 Basics of Play Framework– Concise coverage of basic features of the Play Framework. Though you must be using… Read More ›
Play Framework Cookbook- Using Play! in a better way- A preview
I had written a brief introductory post about Play! Framework and since then I havent written much about it. Not before I got an opportunity to review the Play Framework Cookbook. Before coming back to Play! I used Gaelyk for… Read More ›
