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The Toyota Way; ISBN 0071392319 April 2, 2010 - The company that invented lean production — Jeffrey Liker I probably bought this for the title and because I was curious what the Toyota way was. It shows the remarkable way of a japanese company to be very repetitive…
Liar's Poker; ISBN 0140143459 March 2, 2010 - Rising Through the Wreckage on Wall Street — Michael Lewis This book is about Michael starting a trainee program with Salomon Brothers, moving to London and getting a successful junk bonds broker. It’s about young people on Wall Street…
Tribes; ISBN 1591842336 February 2, 2010 - We Need You to Lead Us — Seth Godin My First Seth Godin book was Purple Cow. This was an eye opener for a non marketing guy. Tribes is a different story where you get a sequence of small…
Reality Check; ISBN 1591842239 April 18, 2009 - The Irreverent Guide to Outsmarting, Outmanaging, and Outmarketing Your Competition — Guy Kawasaki Although thick, about 500 pages, it’s an easy read as the chapters are small and each chapter talks about a different subject including a number of…
Mastering the Hype Cycle; ISBN 1422121100 March 10, 2009 - How to Choose the Right Innovation at the Right Time — Gartner The hype cycle is an interesting phenomenon for technology. And afterwards it shows the right time to adopt new things like internet in the past to Virtualization…
Brain Rules; John Medina; ISBN 0979777704 January 25, 2009 - 12 Principles for Surviving and Thriving at Work, Home, and School — John Medina This book is about how your brain work. It includes a DVD which shows abstracts of all the chapters. The book is an easy read…
Here comes everybody; Clay Shirky; ISBN 1594201536 October 18, 2008 - The Power of Organizing Without Organizations — Clay Shirky This book is in the same category as Wikinomics. How to get things done by others without paying. Ok, this is a bit harsh but I found this book hard…
A Perfect Mess April 14, 2008 - Ok, I haven’t read this book but this could be something which I should put on the desk in my office!…
Wikinomics: How Mass Collaboration Changes Everything; ISBN: 978-1591841388 January 17, 2008 - Don Tapscott and Anthony D. Williams This book is about how economy changed by collaborative concepts. Making business ideas freely available on internet can stimulate people to make use of it and growing your own business. It is also…
Made to Stick: Why Some Ideas Survive and Others Die; ISBN: 978-1400064281 January 8, 2008 - by Chip Heath and Dan Heath A fantastic and entertaining book about how to communicate ideas so they stuck in peoples minds. If you start reading, you’ll finish it soon. In essence, “Making things Stick” it is just about…
The Non-Designer's Design Book; ISBN 0321193857 July 14, 2007 - by Robin Williams Ok — I admit — I love design… I love holding an iPod. I write my presentations using an apple as this is more fun and might make you a bitmore creative. This book however has…
Cost-Based Oracle Fundamentals; ISBN 1590596366 June 22, 2007 - Jonathan Lewis, JL Computer Consultancy This is a very technical and theoretical book about oracle cost based query optimisation fundamentals. POINT . I have worked a day with Jonathan and he knows a lot about oracle optimisation, the hardware…
Next: The Future Just Happened June 6, 2007 - The Future just Happened This book was just written after the dot com hype and the stock market collapsed. It tells a few stories about a 15 year old boy who beats professionals in the stock market and earns…
Purple Cow; ISBN 159184021X March 22, 2007 - Transform Your Business by Being Remarkable This is a remarkable marketing book by Seth Godin. It is about the fact that advertising for new products does not work anymore nowadays. Consumers are able to tun advertising almost completely off….
Top 50 SciFi Books March 9, 2007 - A list of the top 50 science fiction books. I’ve only read the top three… However, there is one book I missed and definately belongs tothe top 10, which is The World of Null A by AE van Vogt. The…
The curious incident... January 7, 2007 - off the dog in the night-time — mark haddon This is a funny book of an autistic boy called Christopher, who found a doc killed by the BBQ-fork. He then decides to solve this mystery and to write a…
Thriving on Vague Objectives December 12, 2006 - A Dilbert Collection by Scott Adamsl Another year of Dilbert. Another 128 pages of daily Dilberts. As funny as always. Not better nor worse as the other collections. Have fun….
Six Thinking Hats December 10, 2006 - Edward de Bono This book offers a concept to get meetings of 30 minutes instead of 4 hours. It’s about dividing thinking in six segments. white hat — We’ll only use information, facts (NOT feelings!) and truths and tackle…
Software Estimation: Demystifying the Black Art September 14, 2006 - by Steve McConnell This is one of the few books of how to estimate software but it also explains what an estimation is and its accuracy. This is done with some very good examples. I had the opportunity to…
The Mythical Man-Month May 14, 2006 - Frederick P. Brooks This excellent book has a great number of essays about software engineering management. It shows the learnings of Brooks while working at IBM while managing OS/360 development. This book is an answer why software development was…
Blink; ISBN 0316172324 March 16, 2006 - Malcolm Gladwell After reading “The Tipping Point” I got this book. It was a disappointment. The book reads through a series of stories where people have this so called “blink” moment without exactly explaining how you can train it….
Winning; ISBN 0060753943 March 16, 2006 - Jack Welch Interesting no-nonsense read. It is an easy read and goes through a series of questions which were asked to Jack during his long time leadership at GE. Grouped by Company, Competition and Career… “Every Day, There Is…
Photoshop LAB Color; ISBN 0321356780 January 26, 2006 - The Canyon Conundrum and Other Adventures in the Most Powerful Colorspace — Dan Margulis This is one of the strangest Photoshop books I’ve read. I only has a single subject and that is the LAB color space. It is…
Why's (poignant) guide to Ruby December 29, 2005 - 2.times { print “Yes, I’ve used chunky bacon in my examples,” print “but never again!” } One of the strangest tutorials to a programming language but really entertaining — especially if you don’t like the dry stuff about programming!…
Enterprise Integration Patterns; ISBN 0321200683 December 12, 2005 - Designing, Building, and Deploying Messaging Solutions This book shows and explains large set of patterns used to implement a messaging solution. Some of the patterns are explained with an implementation in Java with the JMS api or .Net C#…
The Tipping Point; ISBN 0349113467 December 10, 2005 - How little things can make a big difference. Finished this book some time ago and it was fun to read. It explains interactions between people and how small things can make the difference. Especially what kind of people do…
Secrets of Consulting; ISBN 0932633013 October 10, 2005 - A Guide to Giving and Getting Advice Successfully I recently finished this book for the second time. This is one of the most entertaining books I have read from which you can learn something! It shows consulting by a…
Refactoring to Patterns; ISBN 0321213351 August 7, 2005 - If you have read The GOF book: “Design Patterns” and Martin Fowler’s “Refactoring: Improving the Design of Existing Code”, then this book is a waste of money. There is nothing new under the sun and especially not in this…
Barbarians led by Gates; ISBN 0805057544 July 24, 2005 - by Jennifer Edstrom, Marlin Eller An entertaining read on how Windows succeeded by accident. Starting with Windows 1.0 — which was kind of failure — to OS/2 and via applications as Word and Excel to Windows 3.0. MOst of…
Enterprise Service Bus; ISBN 0596006756 July 21, 2005 - by David Chappell This is a book which offers an overview on the “Enterprise Service Bus” and is aimed for technical architects and CIO/CTO type of managers. It explains where and how it differs from a normal Service Oriented…
The Design of Everyday Things; ISBN 0465067107 May 22, 2005 - I had high expectations about this book but it disappointed me. I probably could have know this before I bought it as it was written in 1986 so it seems a bit outdated. A big number of the examples…
A Short History of Nearly Everything; ISBN 076790818X April 20, 2005 - This is the best book I read lately! It is both an entertaining book but also informing. Bill Bryson travels through history. From the “Big Bang” to the different specimen of mankind, from electrons and other tiny elements to…
The battle of Corrin; ISBN 0765301598 March 20, 2005 - Legends of Dune, Book 3 Having read the complete series of Dune since Frank Herbert started the first novel, it is a shame that the quality gets worse and worse. The books his son wrote do only give additional…
It's not funny if I have to explain it; ISBN 0740746588 March 8, 2005 - Another compilation about daily dilbert comics. I must agree that when Scott Adams explains some of them, they become even funnier. Reading the comments show clearly that Scott follows the same pattern in a lot of them. On eof the…
Stop Stealing Sheep January 26, 2005 - & Find Out How Type Works This is a little entertaining book about typography. It shows a lot of fonts and tell you when to use them. It was nice to see Fruttiger — a sans serif font —…
Don't stand where the comet...; ISBN 0740745395 January 17, 2005 - … is assumed to strike oil. In “Don’t stand where the comet is assumes to strike oil”, you get a daily Dilbert strips in the period from end May 2003 till end February 2004. After having bought most of…
Slack; ISBN 0767907698 November 28, 2004 - Getting Past Burnout, Busywork, and the Myth of Total Efficiency — by Tom DeMarco The great fact within this book is that I always found slack a bit of a negative thing. However now I found that slack within…
Cracking the Da Vinci Code; ISBN 1402718373 November 7, 2004 - The Unauthorized Guide to the Facts behind Dan Brown’s Bestselling Novel — by Simon Cox I’ve read the book and it was a bit of a disapointment. It is also not really complete according sources on the internet. “Cox…
The Adobe Photoshop CS Book for Digital Photographers; ISBN 0735714118 July 18, 2004 - I’m not sure why I decided to actually buy this book. I recently bought already martin evening’s book. The difference is that Scott Kelby’s book tackles a number of areas of which most of them are also covered in…
The Alchemist; ISBN 0062502182 July 18, 2004 - This fable about Santiago — an Andalusian shepherd boy — is written by Paulo Coelho. Santiago is dreaming about travelling. In essence its about giving up your safe life and doing what your heart tells you. However, you need…
The Foundation Trilogy July 10, 2004 - My wife went shopping and bought Asaac Asimov’s Foundation Trilogy. Is it a coincidence that I posted Foundation some time ago?…
Designing Web Usability; ISBN 156205810X June 14, 2004 - The Practice of Simplicity “one of the most influentual books on the subject” Jacob Nielsen is considered as the Guru of web usability. I have read this book some time ago. The book came out in 1999 and is…
The Da Vinci Code; ISBN 0385504209 June 9, 2004 - If you strip out the murdering and the guns, this books looks like a documentary. The books is about Robert Langdon — a professor of Religious Symbology — “Opus Dei” — which responds on the fact the they are…
Adobe Photoshop CS for Photographers; ISBN 0240519426; May 18, 2004 - Professional Image Editor’s Guide to the Creative Use of Photoshop for the Mac and PC This book by Martin Evening is one of the better books I’ve seen for Photoshop! Normally all the books I see talk about beginner…
Waltzing With Bears: Managing Risk on Software Projects; ISBN May 6, 2004 - Ok, after a bit less then a year I finished this book. I think that says enough. Walzing with bears is not the book for me. Although it gave a lot of insight about “how to handle and deal…
Page 23 May 3, 2004 - Jon Hicks told me to: Grab the nearest book. Open the book to page 23. Find the fifth sentence. Post the text of the sentence in your journal along with these instructions. From: The nothing that is; a natural…
The Inmates Are Running the Asylum; ISBN 0672316498 March 27, 2004 - Why High Tech Products Drive Us Crazy and How To Restore The Sanity This was the first book of alan cooper that I have read. That was before I knew that he was the father of the Visual Basic…
Free Spirit: A Climber's Life; ISBN 0898865735 March 9, 2004 - Reinhold Messner is probably the best climber. Although everyone knows Edmund Hillary, and maybe also Mallory who both climbed the Everest, Messner is the first one who climbed the 8-thousanders: solo, with oxigen and without oxigen, fast and all…
Touching the void; ISBN 0060730552 March 8, 2004 - This is the amazing story Joe Simpson surviving in the Andes. This book is one of the mountaineering classics. After reaching the summit of the Siula Grande (6344 meters) with Simon Yates, Joe falls down and breaks his leg….
On top of the world; ISBN: 0898867274 February 2, 2004 - The book of Richard Sale and John Cleare shows the history of climbing the 14 highest mountains on earth. These 14 are selected because they are at least 8000 meters above sea level. For every single mountain in this…
About Face: The Essentials of User Interface Design; ISBN 1568843224 October 6, 2003 - About Face if the book of the well known Alan Cooper, father of the Visual Basic user interface. This interface was a real revolution when it came out and now all IDEs use this component based metaphor (Borland Delphi…
Designing with Web Standards; ISBN 0735712018 September 1, 2003 - This is a nice book and good read if you want to create ‘compatible sites’. There are a lot of examples and a lot of the commonly used css hacks are present. The book focuses on xhtml for structure and…
Don't make me think!; ISBN 0789723107 August 5, 2003 - This is an exelent book about web usability. Although its brief, its well to the point and a quick read. Steve Krug has a good way in explaning the concepts although a lot the of the items are common sense…
Questioning Extreme Programming; ISBN: 0201844575 July 29, 2003 - I just finished the book and it took me a long time. Its nice to see that someone dears to question extreme programming and write a book about it in the ‘extreme programming’ series. I personally feel the same with…
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