How I spent an easy earned $250
A couple of weeks ago, some guys from work invited me to participate in a video contest for our region. Little did I know was a $1000 cash prize to be won…which we did won, ladies and gentlemen! So the four of us equally divided the prize which allowed us to earn $250 each for a half an hour activity. Not bad! I was wondering what I could do with that easy earned money. Invest it in a retirement funds? Nah. Give half to my wife? Nah. Since I’m an avid reader of books, I thought that it would be nice to get a hold of some good books on software development. Even though I’ve got over thirty books on software development and engineering, I wanted to get some dealing with patterns and principles in software design because those kind of books transcend time and technology.
Here are the books I bought with the easiest and fastest $250 earned in my life:
- Agile Principles, Patterns, and Practices in C# by Robert C. Martin
- Working Effectively with Legacy Code by Michael Feathers
- Refactoring to Patterns by Joshua Kerievsky
- xUnit Test Patterns by Gerarld Meszaros
- Object Thinking by David West
I’ve actually started reading one of them, “Object Thinking“, and I have to tell you that it’s by far one of the best book I’ve read on object design. What books would you have bought had you be given a similar amount of easy money?
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October 12, 2008, 10:25 amt800t8:
Nice to know that we have something similar in spending easy earned money
http://t800t8.blogspot.com/2007/10/waiting-for-delivering.html
October 13, 2008, 12:04 amnata:
i would love to have a hard copy of this:
October 20, 2008, 4:21 pmC# 3.0 Cookbook from O’Reily
a very helpful and down to earth book.
Brian Di Croce:
Speaking of C#, I also recommend “Effective C#” by Bill Wagner and the recently published “More Effective C#”. Check out http://www.dnrtv.com for a recent interview/screencast with the author on the latest book.
October 22, 2008, 9:38 pm