Q5. I give your book away a lot. Tell me about the books you give away or recommend.
Thanks for that! I can't tell you how many times I talk to someone at a conference who came to hear my talk because they were given a copy of Ship It! by a friend or co-worker.
I interact with a broad range of companies and technologies, so my book suggestions vary widely. Here's a quick sampling.
- If you've got someone trying to learn the Java stack, point them at Scott Davis' JBoss at Work.
- Learning Ruby? Dave Thomas and Andy Hunt's Ruby Pickaxe book and Hal Fulton's The Ruby Way.
- Rails - Dave Thomas's Agile Web Development with Rails
- Ajax? Justin Gehtland's Pragmatic Ajax. And the Prag Press has new Prototype and Dojo books out as well.
- Groovy? Check out Venkat Subramaniam's Programming Groovy
- Grails? Jason Rudolph's Getting Started with Rails.
- Andy Hunt just released his "Refactoring Your Wetware" book. It's all about your soft skills... the stuff in your head. I think it's something everyone should read.
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