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	Title and summary	Date/time
1	Review - Release It! Many of the texts on software engineering discuss following some methodology to produce an ideal design. Working developers quickly learn that the ideal is rarely reality and things happen once we release software out into the wild. Michael Nygard'...	Jun 30, 2007
2	Review - Rails for Java Developers In "Rails for Java Developers", Stuart Halloway and Justin Gehtland provide an introduction to Ruby and the Rails web application framework aimed at the Java developer more familiar with frameworks such as Struts and Hibernate. There's a lo...	May 19, 2007
3	Review - Everyday Scripting with Ruby: For Teams, Testers, and You When I first heard that the Pragmatic Programmers were putting out a book on Ruby oriented towards testers, I thought to myself that I knew a few testers who might be able to benefit. I was a bit surprised when I received the book and the focus chan...	Apr 1, 2007
4	Review - Practices of an Agile Developer Agility remains a popular buzzword in the industry. Methodologies, tools, and even programming languages have had the adjective applied to them. But what does it mean to be an "agile developer"? How do we know if we're "agile"...	May 10, 2006
5	Review - Best of Ruby Quiz Picking up the basics of a new programming language such as Ruby can be enjoyable, but if you can't apply what you've learned quickly that knowledge may be fleeting. Best of Ruby Quiz can help out. Best of Ruby Quiz contains twenty-five fun program...	May 10, 2006
6	Review - Wicked Cool Java "Wicked Cool Java", by Brian D. Eubanks, bills itself as "an idea sourcebook" for Java developers who are "looking for interesting and useful APIs or for project ideas." This book serves as an introduction to a hodge-pod...	Mar 8, 2006
7	Review - Learn to Program As a relative newcomer to Ruby, one of the first things that struck me was the overall simplicity and clarity of the language. I couldn't help thinking that Ruby could serve as an excellent language to teach programming fundamentals. Chris Pine's &q...	Feb 1, 2006
8	Review - Google Maps API: Adding Where to Your Applications "Google Maps API: Adding Where to Your Applications" by Scott Davis is the second release in The Pragmatic Programmers Pragmatic Fridays series. A Friday is described as "a short, highly focused book, typically addressing a specific...	Dec 2, 2005
9	Review - Data Crunching: Solve Everyday Problems Using Java, Python, and More There exists a set of tasks common to every software developer independent of the type of application developed and the language used. Concisely presenting these tasks to the new developer has always been a problem without burying the hapless soul ...	Jul 21, 2005
10	Review - Hibernate in Action Data persistence is quite naturally at the heart of most enterprise applications. There are a myriad of choices the Java developer faces in choosing a persistence mechanism. JDBC and EJBs have long been the standard options, along with relative newc...	May 4, 2005
11	Sorting Through the Unit Testing Books I was asked recently on JavaRanch to suggest some books covering JUnit, unit testing, and test-driven development (TDD). I've read and reviewed most of the books available on the topic and have come to the conclusion that there is no one single book w...	Mar 25, 2004
12	Review - Test-Driven Development by Example I recently reviewed Kent Beck's "Test-Driven Development by Example". It got pretty good reviews on Amazon, but I have to admit, it didn't really do too much for me. I rated it at six horseshoes, which is three stars on Amazon. I've re...	Mar 17, 2004