Recommended Reading

Patterns of Enterprise Application Architecture  – Martin Fowler

Great book with great patterns for enterprise architecture. 

Head First Design Patterns

Good intro to design patterns.

Great book for those who like to program but what some more direction on the ways of great software development.

Learn how to refactor your code into patterns.

Working Effectively With Legacy Code

New to unit testing? Having problems with how to understand and test old code? READ THIS BOOK. This book helps any developer understand "hand-me-down" code. 🙂

Can’t be a book written by Robert C. Martin like this one. All around goodness.

You know how to unit test? But what about all of these edge cases? How about testing sending emails? How to test file handling?

A great resource for someone who is attempting to write a framework for a team. This is not the end-all-be-all, but it is a good resource.

A must read for any developer.

Get a grip on the development process with Scrum.

Another classic from McConnell. If you need to learn how to estimate better, pick up this bad-boy. If you’re agile or waterfall, this can help.

Having trouble getting things out the door? This book will help guide you. Completely mind altering book.

Excellent book on agile development.

If you’re interested in SOA, then you need to learn WCF. This book helps you ramp up and get dirty quick.

Again, in my quest to learn new languages, I decided to whip up some web apps with Rails. Very slick, very nice. If you want to learn how to build web apps with Ruby check out this book.

In my quest to learn a new language every year, I picked up a copy of this book. It has been outstanding in helping a .NET architect become a dynamic language convert.