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AspectJ in Action

rleir — Wed, 30 Nov 2011 13:50:44 +0000

AspectJ in Action – Enterprise AOP with Spring Applications, 2nd edition, Ramnivas Laddad, – 2010

Enterprise programmers will want to read this book about aspect oriented programming. 500 pages.

UML for the IT Business

rleir — Wed, 05 Jan 2011 00:06:42 +0000

UML for the IT Business Analyst – A Practical Guide to Requirements Gathering Using the Unified Modeling Language, Howard Podeswa, – 2010

An approach to requirements gathering. 350 pages.

Harnessing Hibernate

rleir — Tue, 01 Jun 2010 15:04:59 +0000

Harnessing Hibernate, James Elliott, O’Reilly 2008

Java programmers will want to read this. It is dated, but recent enough to include Java Persistence API (JPA) integration. 350 pages.

Dependency Injection

rleir — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 21:08:26 +0000

Dependency Injection : design patterns using Spring and Guice / Dhanji R. Prasanna, Manning, 2009

Java programmers will find this valuable. 300 pages, contents:

– Dependency injection: what’s all the hype?
– Time for injection
– Investigating DI
– Building modular applications
– Scope: a fresh breath of state
– More use cases in scoping
– From birth to death: object lifecycle
– Managing an object’s behavior
– Best practices in code design
– Integrating with third-party frameworks
– Dependency injection in action!

appendix A – The Butterfly Container
appendix B – Smarty Pants for Adobe Flex

Agile Principles, Patterns, and Practices in C♯

rleir — Fri, 19 Feb 2010 21:31:22 +0000

Agile Principles, Patterns, and Practices in C♯ / Robert C. Martin, Prentice Hall, 2007

Developers will want to read this book. With a foreword by Erich Gamma, of Eclipse fame. Hardcover, 700 pages.

Model-driven Development

rleir — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 21:48:18 +0000

Model-driven Development with executable UML / Dragan Milicev, Wiley, 2009

This book is for analysts who specify the requirements and design of business systems. 850 pages.

Use Case Driven

rleir — Fri, 15 Jan 2010 17:56:08 +0000

Use Case Driven object modeling with UML : theory and practice / Doug Rosenberg, Apress, 2007.

Here is a practical book on UML, the best way to diagram the requirements for a software project. 400 pages, hardcover.

Elements of Programming

rleir — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 20:24:40 +0000

Elements of Programming / Alexander Stepanov, Addison-Wesley, 2009

An advanced book on software design, with examples in C++. It is highly recommended by Bjarne Stroustrup. 250 pages, hardcover.

Beautiful Architecture

rleir — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 21:53:56 +0000

Beautiful Architecture / edited by Diomidis Spinellis, O’Reilly, 2009

A collection of essays by leading software designers. Sections include systems architecture, enterprise application architecture, and user application architecture.

What is architecture / by John Klein and David Weiss
A tale of two systems: a modern-day software fable / by Pete Goodliffe
Architecting for scale / by Jim Waldo
Making memories / by Michael Nygard
Resource-oriented architectures: being “in the web” / by Brian Sletten
Data grows up: the architecture of the Facebook platform / by Dave Fetterman
Xen and the beauty of virtualization / by Derek Murray and Keir Fraser
Guardian: a fault-tolerant operating system environment / by Greg Lehey
JPC: an X86 PC emulator in pure Java / by Rhys Newman and Christopher Dennis
The strength of metacircular virtual machines: JIKES RVM / by Ian Rogers and Dave Grove
GNU EMACS: creeping featurism is a strength / by Jim Blandy
When the bazaar sets out to build cathedrals / by Till Adam and Mirko Boehm
Software architecture: object-oriented versus functional / by Bertrand Meyer
Reading the classics / by Panagiotis Louridas.

350 pages.

Head first object-oriented analysis

rleir — Fri, 05 Jun 2009 20:26:28 +0000

Head first object-oriented analysis and design / Brett D. McLaughlin, O’Reilly, 2007

A tutorial with visual gags that will keep anyone, teen or older, glued to the pages. It still retains the great O’Reilly quality. 600 pages.