Recommended Readings: Free e-book downloads

Posted by Mike Ramm on October 20, 2007

Jeff Atwood of Codding Horror wrote an article the other day called Why Does Software Spoil? where he gave his brilliant thoughts about the feature creep that spoils all software products. I was very impressed because I also have suffered of “feature overdose” and I think I am going to add my comments soon on this topic. Continuing the theme, yesterday Jeff wrote another article, where he recommended the Mark Minasi’s e-book The Software Conspiracy. Here the author examines in great detail the “feature paradox” – new features are used to sell software, but they are also the primary reason that software spoils over time.

You can download the book from its website – The Software Conspiracy.

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The Mythical Man-Month Walkthrough

Posted by Mike Ramm on September 25, 2007

TheServerSide.net started a great new initiative – classic books walkthroughs. Joseph Ottinger is the first author with a review of the first chapter of Fred Brooks’ masterpiece “The Mythical Man-Month”. Although the book was written a very long time ago it is still one of the must-reads for all the people involved in the software development business. I highly recommend reading the review and buying the book.