Contents tagged with Books (good ones)
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Happy Birthday MSDN Magazine – 23 years!
MSDN Magazine (née Microsoft Systems Journal) was born October 1986. Here is a photo of the first issue -
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Free book - Jit N' Run - Best of SimpleTalk - ASP.Net
A very nice book, courtesy of RedGate (the tools people):
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Chris Bowen at Connecticut .NET Dev Group - 26th Sept
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A new book about the Common Language Runtime
Got to get that one - Customizing the CLR.
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Knuth's Art of Computer Programming V4 (and what Bill Gates said about it)
Donald Knuth's Magnum Opus is getting another volume - The Art of Computer Programming Vol 4 and it should be out soon. One of my favorite bookstores (BookPool) has an excerpt from it. The AoCP is the source for computer science algorithms and data structures -
If you think you're a really good programmer. . . read [Knuth's] Art of Computer Programming.... You should definitely send me a resume if you can read the whole thing. -Bill Gates
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80/20 Rule (aka Pareto Principle) - recommended book
In these blog postings, I have seen several references to the 80/20 Rule (aka Pareto Principle but which is actually a misnomer). I bought this book at a used bookstore and got a lot out of it for less than ten bucks! It's a general, very-readable introduction to the 80/20 Principle and how it can be used in various situations (including business).
80/20 Principle -
Download chapter from Effective C# - Distinguish between Value Types and Reference Types
Chapter 6 of Effective C# - Distinguish between Value Types and Reference Types is here [PDF format]. Better still - get the book: Effective C#.