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The iPhone Developer's Cookbook: Building Applications with the iPhone SDK (Developer's Library)
Erica Sadun
Addison-Wesley Professional, 2008
?This book would be a bargain at ten times its price! If you are writing iPhone software, it will save you weeks of development time. Erica has included dozens of crisp and clear examples illustrating essential iPhone development techniques and many others that show special effects going way beyond Apple?s official documentation.? ?Tim Burks, ...
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Effective C++: 55 Specific Ways to Improve Your Programs and Designs (3rd Edition) (Addison-Wesley ...
Scott Meyers
Addison-Wesley Professional, 2005
Just get it
This book must be required reading for anyone developing in C++. I count this book as essential as Bjarne Stroustrup's "The C++ Programming Language"; these two books are a necessity.
Mr. Stroustrup's book could be considered a technical reference to the C++ ...
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Java Concurrency in Practice
Brian Goetz, Tim Peierls, ...
Addison-Wesley Professional, 2006
The best book on Java concurrency out there.
As others have written, this is the best book out there on Java concurrency. I am a decent journeyman coder, not a guru, and this helped me wrap my head around what is involved with concurrency. Concurrency is in many ways orthogonal to the rest of Java programming, so ...
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Cocoa(R) Programming for Mac(R) OS X (3rd Edition)
Aaron Hillegass
Addison-Wesley Professional, 2008
OS X developer must have
If you plan to write for Mac OS X, and have some programming experience, this book is a MUST HAVE. This is by far the best introductory book I have ever read on any language.
If you DO NOT have programming experience, I would still recommend this book. There are ...
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Design Patterns: Elements of Reusable Object-Oriented Software (Addison-Wesley Professional Computing Series)
Erich Gamma, Richard Helm, ...
Addison-Wesley Professional, 1994
THE design patterns book
This book is a classic and doesn't require any further presentations. It is THE Design Patterns bible and every OO programmer should read at least a couple of times.
The samples are in C++ and sometimes Smalltalk but that really doesn't change anything even if you ...
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Advanced Windows Debugging (Addison-Wesley Microsoft Technology Series)
Mario Hewardt, Daniel Pravat
Addison-Wesley Professional, 2007
This is the book
This book has completely smashed every possible expectation I had when I set out to read it.
Let me put it simply. There comes a time in every software developers' life when he contemplates the age old question of, "If I were to be stranded on an island and I could ...
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The Mythical Man-Month: Essays on Software Engineering, Anniversary Edition (2nd Edition)
Frederick P. Brooks
Addison-Wesley Professional, 1995
Software Development
The Mythical Man-Month: Essays on Software Engineering is a book on software project management by Fred Brooks, whose central theme is that "Adding manpower to a late software project makes it later." This idea is known as Brooks's law, and is presented along with the ...
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User Stories Applied: For Agile Software Development (Addison-Wesley Signature Series)
Mike Cohn
Addison-Wesley Professional, 2004
Good Advice for Beginners and Experts
This book provides excellent insight into the story driven process, with immediately actionable advice. Cohn clearly describes the advantages of stories, and explains how to develop quality systems that deliver value to the user. Anyone operating in, or hoping to adopt ...
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Programming Pearls (2nd Edition) (ACM Press)
Jon Bentley
Addison-Wesley Professional, 1999
Must read
One of the must read for S/W Engineers. These essays make you really think and teach you basics of s/w development. I also liked the exercises under each essay. I found it difficult to read this book in one go but I read this book almost twice. And every time I read ...
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The Pragmatic Programmer: From Journeyman to Master
Andrew Hunt, David Thomas
Addison-Wesley Professional, 1999
A Fork in the Road of my Career
Since I was young I wanted to be a programmer. I got my first development job only a few years ago, and have spent much of my free time reading blogs and the like. The problem with that was there were too many conflicting schools of thought on too many different ...
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Agile and Iterative Development: A Manager's Guide (Agile Software Development Series)
Craig Larman
Addison-Wesley Professional, 2003
Excellent survey of iterative and incremental development (IID) methodologies
This work by Larman shares some commonalities with Balancing Agility and Discipline, a work by Boehm and Turner (see my review for that book) in which a wide range of methodologies are compared side-by-side to determine the best fit for teams. However, rather than ...
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Essential Windows Communication Foundation (WCF): For .NET Framework 3.5 (Microsoft .NET Development Series)
Steve Resnick, Richard Crane, ...
Addison-Wesley Professional, 2008
A must have guide to WCF
If you are going to get into Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) with .NET Framework 3.5, you will want this book by your side.
The authors do a great job of covering all the basics and then go in depth on each major WCF topic offering a chapter on each. They ...
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Writing Effective Use Cases (Agile Software Development Series)
Alistair Cockburn
Addison-Wesley Professional, 2000
Good Investment
Alistair Cockburn has a gift for writing. His explanations are very easy to follow and the writing style makes it seem like you are reading novel. I tried a number of books on use cases and this is by far the best. It contains a number of different styles. I used this ...
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UML Distilled: A Brief Guide to the Standard Object Modeling Language (3rd Edition) (Addison-Wesley Object ...
Martin Fowler
Addison-Wesley Professional, 2003
Excellent introduction to UML and the software design process.
If you would like to get a better grasp on doing some high-level software design, UML Distilled turns out to be a much better book than I had anticipated. I expected a dry tutorial of the UML notation, but it is thankfully much more than this. UML Distilled (3rd Ed.) ...
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Patterns of Enterprise Application Architecture (Addison-Wesley Signature Series)
Martin Fowler
Addison-Wesley Professional, 2002
Must have reference for all developers
Even if you don't do "Enterprise Application" development, this book is a must have in your library. If you have been developing for more than a couple of years and you haven't seen 1/2 of the patterns in this book, then you are probably doing something wrong and this ...
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