{"id":18,"date":"2009-08-28T13:21:09","date_gmt":"2009-08-28T19:21:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/todesco-technologies.com\/unboxed\/?p=11"},"modified":"2009-08-28T13:21:09","modified_gmt":"2009-08-28T19:21:09","slug":"it-books-that-stand-the-test-of-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/todescotechnologies.com\/unboxed\/index.php\/2009\/08\/28\/it-books-that-stand-the-test-of-time\/","title":{"rendered":"IT books that stand the test of time"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Recently I was trying to sort out what IT books I want to keep and which ones are ready to be thrown out. My main focus is on software development. So there is a wast collection of books on Java, C#, Perl, Objective C and many more or less obscure programming language. The occasional certification cram book, books on IDE&#8217;s, project management, etc&#8230; Of course I found that the majority of these books do not age well! Pascal on Mac OS (pardon me System) 7, CGI programming in Perl, Java 1.0 in a Nutshell and many more books really are mor of a historic interest instead of being picked up and read on a regular basis.<\/p>\n<p>However a few of my books really stood the test of time. They influenced me, are a good read and truly worth recommending to anyone interest in IT<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The Pragmatic Progammer\n<p>(Andrew Hunt, David Thomas) 0-201-61622-X<\/li>\n<li>Design Patterns\n<p>(Gamma, Helm, Johnson, Vlissides) 0-201-63361-2<\/li>\n<li>The Mythical Man Month\n<p>(Frederick P. Brooks) 0-201-83595-9<\/li>\n<li>Goedel, Escher, Bach\n<p>(Douglas R. Hofstadter) 0-465-02656-7 <\/li>\n<li>Death March Project\n<p>(Edward Yourdon) 0-13-143635-X<\/li>\n<li>Software Craftsmanship: The New Imperative\n<p>(Pete McBreen) 0-20-173386-2<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Post a comment if you have any books that you find worth being added to this!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Recently I was trying to sort out what IT books I want to keep and which ones are ready to be thrown out. My main focus is on software development. So there is a wast collection of books on Java, C#, Perl, Objective C and many more or less obscure programming language. The occasional certification &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/todescotechnologies.com\/unboxed\/index.php\/2009\/08\/28\/it-books-that-stand-the-test-of-time\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">IT books that stand the test of time<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/todescotechnologies.com\/unboxed\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/todescotechnologies.com\/unboxed\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/todescotechnologies.com\/unboxed\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/todescotechnologies.com\/unboxed\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/todescotechnologies.com\/unboxed\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/todescotechnologies.com\/unboxed\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/todescotechnologies.com\/unboxed\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/todescotechnologies.com\/unboxed\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/todescotechnologies.com\/unboxed\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}