As I wrap up my time here at JobServe, I thought it might be helpful to put together a short list of books, videos, tools and blogs, that I have found useful in my own personal journey into the world of Agile development.
There are lots of omissions for which I apologise, these are just the ones that have stuck with me They are in no specific order and the presence or absence of any specific book, video, tool or blog denotes nothing other than the deficiencies of my memory.
So it’s a place to start, not an end.
Books
Domain Driven Design – Eric Evans
The Pragmatic Programmer – Andrew Hunt and Dave Thomas
Practices of an Agile Developer – Venkat Subramaniam and Andy Hunt
Agile in a Flash – Jeff Langr and Tim Ottinger
Videos
Craftsmanship and Ethics – Robert C. Martin
Bad Code Craftsmanship Engineering & Certification – Robert C. Martin
Behaviour Driven Development – Dan North
Coding in Public – Alan Stevens
Domain Driven Design and Domain specific Languages – Eric Evans
Software Craftsmanship Beyond the Hype – Cory Haines
Tooling
Enso – Program launcher with a universal spell checker
Pomodoro Technique and Pomodoro Timer – time management tool
Espresso – Regex workbench with an easy to use interface
LinqPad – runs sql and linq expressions
XMarks – sync your bookmarks across computers
Evernote – sync note taking across computers, I use this to store web pages for later reading
Dropbox – sync files across computers
Twhirl – social network feed
Blogs
Hopefully this is a useful list.
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