---
title: "New skin and new book recommendation"
url: "https://osherove.com/blog/2003/10/27/new-skin-and-new-book-recommendation.md"
canonical: "https://osherove.com/blog/2003/10/27/new-skin-and-new-book-recommendation.html"
published: "2003-10-27T08:30:00"
updated: "2003-10-27T08:30:00"
tags: ["Off Topic"]
author: "Roy Osherove"
description: "Just thought I'd see how my blog looks with a different skin. I like it. I'll keep it. Also thought it's about time I update my favorite/most wanted book recommendation. So, I put the new link up on the blog. This time…"
usage: "Licensed under CC BY 4.0 — reuse, quote and adapt with attribution (Roy Osherove, link to the original page)."
license: "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/"
---

# New skin and new book recommendation

By Roy Osherove October 27, 2003 In [Off Topic](https://osherove.com/blog/category/off-topic)

**Historical article** · Originally published October 27, 2003; technical details may be outdated.

Just thought I'd see how my blog looks with a different skin. I like it. I'll keep it.

Also thought it's about time I update my favorite/most wanted book recommendation. So, I put the new link up on the blog.

This time its [Windows Forms Programming in C#](https://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0321116208/iserializable-20)  , by Chris [Chris Sells](http://www.sellsbrothers.com/).

## More in Off Topic

[All posts in Off Topic](https://osherove.com/blog/category/off-topic)

- Oct 27, 2003

    ### [Regulator Coming along nicely](https://osherove.com/blog/2003/10/27/regulator-coming-along-nicely.html)

- Oct 27, 2003

    ### [Got Proxy? Help me test The Regulator](https://osherove.com/blog/2003/10/27/got-proxy-help-me-test-the-regulator.html)

- Oct 26, 2003

    ### [Leaving for PDC post hailstorm](https://osherove.com/blog/2003/10/26/leaving-for-pdc-post-hailstorm.html)

- Oct 26, 2003

    ### [And a few lessons from JBuilder](https://osherove.com/blog/2003/10/26/and-a-few-lessons-from-jbuilder.html)


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## About the author

**Roy Osherove**: Senior Solutions Architect at AWS working on AI for production and AI-driven development; author of The Art of Unit Testing and Elastic Leadership, with about 20 years of consulting and training on unit testing, TDD, team leadership and continuous delivery.

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- [RobotPaper](https://robotpaper.ai/): This blog: AI patterns and anti-patterns, AI and coding agents, and engineering leadership.
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- [The Art of Unit Testing](https://www.artofunittesting.com): The Art of Unit Testing, 3rd Edition (Manning): readable, maintainable, trustworthy unit tests, plus TDD workshops in C#, JavaScript, Java and Kotlin.
- [5whys.com](https://www.5whys.com): Roy's writing on software team leadership: self-organizing teams, surviving chaos, learning mode and the Elastic Leadership model.
- [Pipeline Driven](https://pipelinedriven.org): Continuous delivery and DevOps practices: build patterns, pipeline-friendly testing, DevOps metrics and enterprise DevOps.
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