Sébastien’s Coding Journey

September 10, 2009

Review of: Getting Real

Filed under: Book Review — Tags: — Sébastien Ayotte @ 7:30 am

I just finished Getting Real from 37 signals. This book give some insights on how software should be made.

Here some key points from the book :

  • Be honest
  • Give feedback
  • Eliminate the noise
  • Get things done

Don’t try to look corporate. You don’t need to put emphasis on professionnalism. It’s just a matter of fact. Don’t loose your time on all this noise.

Just keep things simple and go make software.

August 4, 2009

Review of: Programming a Real Internet Site with ASP and HTML: Book I: HTML and Basic ASP

Filed under: Book Review — Tags: — Sébastien Ayotte @ 2:50 pm

I finished reading Programming a Real Internet Site with ASP and HTML: Book I: HTML and Basic ASP to introduce myself to ASP 3.0. Like I said before, I changed job and I needed an introduction into my new environment.

In a glance, this book is deprecated. It makes you build a site with tables and framesets. If you’re an absolute beginner in web development, maybe you could read this book. But I recommend that you go on the w3schools instead. I let a review of this book on the Amazon web site. If your curious, you could go check it out.

It’s not easy to find good books on a quite old technology. It makes me wonder if we should upgrade?

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