Archive for the ‘Books’ Category
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Book Review – Beautiful Testing
After several months of this book sitting on my “To Read” queue, I finally took the time to read some of the essays within the O’Reilly compilation book, “Beautiful Testing.” The essays are grouped into one of three categories, “Testers”, “Process”, or “Tools. I found the group of essays around Testers to be the most interesting as the essays focused more on the testing and Software Quality Assurance community as a whole rather than actually the implementation of testing processes and tools.
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Class Review – Scott & Neil’s Designing Web Interfaces Master Class
I found this video to be a must-have resource for anyone that works with the user interface of application development. While this video does not go into details on how to build these interfaces, it does arm the viewer with enough information to go out and build better designed web interfaces. This video has also given me a few ideas on how to re-organize and design the blogs I manage as well as the IT Service Management software I’ve been working on in Adobe Flex. I highly recommend you take time out to watch this 4 hour course on web design patterns. I’m sure you will emerge with a more keen sense for good design principles.
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Book Review – JavaScript: The Good Parts by Douglas Crockford
For JavaScript developers looking for an academic approach to methods, functions, arrays, and the sort…. this book is for you. The Good Parts discusses the best parts of the language and shows how to take advantage of those parts in your application.