Category Archives: Books

Book Review – SOA Patterns (First 5 Chapters)

Posted on May 24, 2009 by Colin Jack

I’ll cut straight to the chase, I definitely recommend SOA Patterns to anyone interested in SOA. Even though its currently only available in MEAP, and is a bit rough and ready, and isn’t complete, it’s still great stuff and well … Continue reading →

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Book Review – RESTful .NET

Posted on May 10, 2009 by Colin Jack

Since we are using REST on top of WCF on my current project I was glad to see that this book had been written as I was hoping it would answer some questions I had. However my first issue with … Continue reading →

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Deploying .NET Applications – Learning MSBuild and ClickOnce

Posted on March 13, 2009 by Mo Khan

I recently finished reading… Deploying .NET Applications: Learning MSBuild and ClickOnce (Expert’s Voice in .Net) I was interested in this book mainly to find an easier way to deploy ClickOnce applications via an automated build. Most of my build automation … Continue reading →

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Data-Driven Services with Silverlight 2

Posted on March 11, 2009 by Mo Khan

I recently finished reading… Data-Driven Services with Silverlight 2 I have been wanting to get in to the world of WCF for some time now, but wasn’t really sure how to get started. This book was good at explaining how … Continue reading →

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Introducing NLP

Posted on March 2, 2009 by Mo Khan

I recently finished reading… Introducing NLP: Psychological Skills for Understanding and Influencing People   I first heard about Neuro-linguistic programming (NLP) while I was reading The Game: Penetrating the Secret Society of Pickup Artists. I thought that it sounded like … Continue reading →

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Object Thinking

Posted on February 12, 2009 by Mo Khan

I recently finished reading… Object Thinking by David West   As usual I fold down pages that contain paragraphs that interest me… below are a few excerpts from the book that I enjoyed! "Better people" has been recognized as the … Continue reading →

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Lazy Loaded Interceptors

Posted on November 9, 2008 by Mo Khan

Patterns of Enterprise Application Architecture defines Lazy Load as: An object that doesn’t contain all of the data you need but knows how to get it.   A while back I was trying to figure out how to lazy load … Continue reading →

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Disciplined Agility

Posted on August 9, 2008 by Mo Khan

I finished reading… Agile Principles, Patterns, and Practices in C# (Robert C. Martin Series) by Robert C. Martin, Micah Martin Read more about this book…   What an excellent book, seriously! It was written by Robert C. Martin and his … Continue reading →

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Disconnected – Channels Of Communication

Posted on August 5, 2008 by Mo Khan

A few weeks ago I started feeling a little over whelmed by the volume of interest in what I was up to. After reading a chapter from Tim Ferris’ book, I decided to disconnect. It was the most effective advice … Continue reading →

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Free e-Book from Karl Seguin

Posted on July 11, 2008 by Jason Meridth

I may be late on the band wagon on this one, but I just had the privilege of reading Karl Seguin’s free e-book, “Foundations of Programming”.  This is what Alt.NET is all about. Even if you disagree with Alt.NET or … Continue reading →

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