Next books to read: Working Effectively with Legacy Code

One of the next books I will be reading is Working Effectively with Legacy Code by Michael C. Feathers. First I've seen it on the desk of my colleague and friend Thomas. Then I read about it in great book Clean Code.  Recently I listened to a podcast on Hanselminutes. Now I decided as soon I finished the current book stack I will turn into this one.

Books on my desk: Debugging Microsoft .NET 2.0 Applications

A great resource not only for debugging .NET but also about preventing the need for debugging in the first place. Writing posts for my windbg blog I regularly used this resource.

Rating: Very good!

Books on my desk: Beyond the C++ Standard Library - An Introduction to Boost

Today C++ is still a major player in the software industry and you are well advices to have at least some basic understanding of it. Boost comprises a big resource of utilities to better get along with this long time evolved language. This book gives a quick introduction to some of the libraries boost provides. It's not a reference but a good starting point.

You can pick a chm version of this book here...

Rating: Useful!

Books on my desk: Framework Design Guidelines

This book is not the kind of book you start reading and you just cannot stop. It is a reference book I regularly take at hand when I'm I'm in doubt on how to do something like what kind of exception should I catch or throw. Additionally it is a good idea to watch Krzysztof Cwalinas and Brad Adams blogs because they publish updates to new and changed rules there.

Rating: Must be available!

Books on my desk: .NET 2.0 Interoperability Recipes by Bruce Bukovics

One book I more often touch than I would like to is ".NET 2.0 Interoperability Recipes by Bruce Bukovics". Every time when I need to interface old code with new code (or vice versa) I find myself grabbing this book. The book does what the cover promises: it provides short recipes on how to tackle common Interop scenarios.

Rating: Very useful