My book list

This is a list of all the books I’ve read that are in some way related to programming and software development, along with some thoughts on them.

Languages

• The Ruby Programming Language by David Flanagan and Yukihiro Matsumoto. Really a comprehensive guide to Ruby 1.8 and Ruby 1.9, but not a "how-to program" type of book. Simply wonderful information density and one of the clearest programming books I've read in a long time.
• Programming C# 3.0
• C# 3.0 Cookbook
• C# 3.0 Design patterns by Judith Bishop. A nice overview of common design patterns and how best to implement them in C#.
• Programming Perl. A must when beginning to program Perl. Nice reference and enough depth to keep you going for a long time.
• Practical mod_perl
• Perl Best Practices by Damian Conway
• Higher-order Perl by Mark Jason Dominus. This is a gem of a book for every Perl developer that wishes to expand her repertoire of tricks, but not suitable for beginners. It tackles topics such as memoization, currying, recursion and iterators, recursive-descent parsers and other neat stuff for transforming code using code.
• Perl Cookbook. A collection of recipes for solving small and large problems in idiomatic Perl.
• Perl Testing by Ian langworth and Chromatic. Nice rundown of Perl testing covering both Test::Class and Test::More. It's in the developer notebooks series so it's really hands on all the way through.
• Javascript: The Definite Guide.
• Javascript: the good parts by Douglas Crockford. What is says on the cover. Really.
• Ansi Common Lisp by Paul Graham. I would say this book can be compared to Kernigan & Ritchie's The C Programming Language. More parenthesis, though.
• XSLT 2.0 by Michael Kay. Handy reference for those times when there's no way to escape XSLT.

Methodology

• Agile Software Development with Scrum By Ken Schwaber
• Agile Estimating and planning by Mike Cohn. A very nice book covering a lot of nooks and crannies regarding estimating and planning agile software development. I would say a must for all people involved in agile projects.
• Agile Software development by Alistair Cockburn. One of the best discussions on agile software development as a field, without stranding on specific methodologies. A very good read, especially the parts on communication and individuals.
• Test-driven Development by Dave Astels
• The Pragmatic Programmer by Dave Thomas and Andy Hunt
• Continuous Integration by Paul M. Duvall. Didn't tell me much I didn't already know, but gives a nice overview of continous integration for newbies in the field.
• Pragmatic Project Automation by Mike Clark. Quite basic rundown of the task of automating all (as many as possible) tasks in building a software project. Beginner-level.
• Xunit Test Patterns by Gerard Meszaros. High-level discussion of test patterns for development. Testing in a TDD/BDD sense.
• Junit Recipes by J.B. Rainsberger
• Clean Code by Robert C. Martin.
• Scrumban by Corey Ladas.
• Code Complete 2nd edition by Steve McConnel. A bible on software development in many ways. Packed with useful advice even though a lot is common knowledge if you been around for a few years.
• Scrum and Kanban - making the most of both by Henrik Kniberg and Mattias Skarin
• Kanban - Successful Evolutionary Change for Technology Organizations by David Anderson
• Extreme Programming explained by Kent Beck
• Agile Software Development, Principles, Patterns, and Practices

Design and architecture

• Domain-driven Design by Eric Evans
• Refactoring by Martin Fowler
• Code Complete 2nd ed. by Steve McConnell

Machine learning

• Data mining by Ian H. Witten and Eibe Frank
• Data Mining - Concepts and Techniques by Jiawei Han and Micheline Kamber
• Pattern Classification by Duda, Hart and Stork
• Pattern Recognition and Machine Learning by Christopher M. Bishop
• Fundamentals of Neural Networks by Laurene Fausett
• Neural Networks for Pattern Recognition by Christopher M. Bishop
• Fuzzy Modeling and Genetic Algorithms for Data Mining and Exploration by Earl Coz

Other

• Applied Cryptography by Bruce Schneier. If you don't know who Bruce Schneier is, take a look at .

Wish list/future reading

• Leading Lean Software Development: Results Are not the Point by Mary and Tom Poppendieck.
• Apprenticeship Patterns: Guidance for the Aspiring Software Craftsman By Dave Hoover, Adewale Oshineye
• The Art of Agile Development by James Shore and Chromatic
• Working Effectively With Legacy Code by Michael Feathers.
• Software Craftsmanship by Pete McBreen