I loving walking in the great UK outdoors -- usually in the Scottish highlands or (more usually) in and around the Peak District, which is close to where I live. I read a lot of police procedurals and books about software development.
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Are your accounting data and reports providing a true and timely picture of your company's performance? Are your lean operations …
When Tim Whitby checks into a hotel, he’s not intending to check out again. But then he meets Katrina Blake, …
I've been using the techniques from this book with great success for a couple of years. Everything presented here by Teresa Torres is clear, sensible, practical -- and works in practice.
Of course, this is only one of several product discovery processes that emphasise experimentation, small increments and iterative, conversational relationships with users and customers. But this is the one that works best for me.
Highly recommended.
There's plenty to like in this second book in the Oxford series, and I found myself gripped much of the time. The story does lose its way a little in the final quarter, but the last (short) chapter contains a spectacular surprise when the identity of the bad guy is revealed.
There's less humour here than in the first book, although that is rectified whenever Sarah appears. And as previously, the characters are well drawn and distinguished from each other.
Another gripping yarn -- recommended.
@marcus that's a great story!
I loved the Jim Hutton series of Ellery Queen in the 70s, so I was really looking forward to reading a collection of Ellery Queen short stories. But after the fourth I was starting to wish there were no more...
The stories themselves are each expertly crafted, perfect examples of logical deduction. And the language used does evoke 1930s New York (I imagine). But I didn't /enjoy/ them, possibly because Queen himself comes across as a real smarty-pants. And so after reading a few of these stories, I found the remainder were quite a slog and I just wanted them to end.
You want increased customer satisfaction, faster development cycles, and less wasted work. Domain-driven design (DDD) …
This book is a very clear introduction to domain modelling and functional type systems, and indeed F#. The whole book uses a single, large worked example, and this provides good continuity through the various phases of requirements specification, design and implementation. The only problem I have with the book's approach is that tests / examples aren't used in specifying the application's behaviour; I would have liked to see the author exploring the relationship between type specifications and TDD.
You want increased customer satisfaction, faster development cycles, and less wasted work. Domain-driven design (DDD) combined with functional programming is …
