Books I read (January - August 2012)

January
- Estructura de la informació. UOC. (2nd time)
- Estructura i tecnologia de computadors. UOC. (2nd time)

February
- Working Effectively with Legacy Code, Michael Feathers
- La acabadora, (Accabadora) Michela Murgia

March
- Thinking in C++, Volume 1, 2nd edition, Bruce Eckel
- Refactoring: Improving the Design of Existing Code, Martin Fowler, Kent Beck, John Brant, William Opdyke, Don Roberts

April
- Midnight's Children, Salman Rushdie

May
- En el último azul, (Dins el darrer blau) Carme Riera
- El etrusco, (Turms kuolematon) Mika Waltari
- La soledad de los números primos, (La solitudine dei numeri primi) Paolo Giordano
- Teoria d'autòmats i llenguatges formals I. UOC.
- Estructura de computadors. UOC.

June
- White teeth, Zadie Smith
- Estructura de computadors. UOC. (2nd time)
- Teoria d'autòmats i llenguatges formals I. UOC. (2nd time)

July
- Design Patterns: Elements of Reusable Object-Oriented Software, Gamma, Helm, Johnson and Vlissides

August
- The Mythical Man-Month: Essays on Software Engineering, Frederick P. Brooks
- Firmin, Sam Savage

Interesting Talk: "Sustainable Test-Driven Development"

In this talk:

Sustainable Test-Driven Development

Steve Freeman, one of the authors of Growing Object-Oriented Software Guided by Tests, explains how to write good tests that make development easier.

Interesting Talk: "Who Ever Said Programs Were Supposed to be Pretty?"

I've just watched a talk by Brian Foote in which he wonders if clean or beautiful code makes sense in a bottom-line obsessed business world:

• Who Ever Said Programs Were Supposed to be Pretty?

I think that it's full of common sense and it also describes a very real problem.

Interesting Talk: "Test-Driven Development of Asynchronous Systems"

@remosu and I continue reading

Growing Object-Oriented Software Guided by Tests

In this talk, one of its authors, Nat Pryce, explains some techniques to test asynchronous systems:

• Test-Driven Development of Asynchronous Systems

Interesting talk: "Agile Architecture & Design"

Interesting talk by Neal Ford that I've just watched:

• Agile Architecture & Design