--- title: "Shared Source CLI Essentials Book is out + more about specialization" url: "https://osherove.com/blog/2003/3/26/shared-source-cli-essentials-book-is-out-more-about-speciali.md" canonical: "https://osherove.com/blog/2003/3/26/shared-source-cli-essentials-book-is-out-more-about-speciali.html" published: "2003-03-26T05:56:00" updated: "2003-03-26T05:56:00" tags: [] author: "Roy Osherove" description: "According to O'Reilly the book Shared Source CLI Essentials by Stutz, Neward and Shilling is available as of today. Congratulations to David, Ted & Geoff on this major achievement! [ All Things Distributed ] Wow. That…" 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/" --- # Shared Source CLI Essentials Book is out + more about specialization By Roy Osherove March 26, 2003 **Historical article** · Originally published March 26, 2003; technical details may be outdated. _According to_ [_O'Reilly_](http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/) _the book_ [_Shared Source CLI Essentials_](http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/sscliess/) _by Stutz, Neward and Shilling is available as of today. Congratulations to David, Ted & Geoff on this major achievement!_ \[[All Things Distributed](http://weblogs.cs.cornell.edu/AllThingsDistributed/archives/000039.html)\] Wow. That looks like something to sink your teeth in! I'll just add this book to my amazon Wish List and keep wishing.... ;) **p.s** This makes another good point to my [previous post](http://dotnetweblogs.com/Rosherove/posts/4292.aspx)  in reply to [DataGrid Girl's post](http://dotnetweblogs.com/DatagridGirl/posts/4253.aspx) about specialization and generality: Even though i know that today and in the near future touching ROTOR will be only a side hobby and nothing close to work related, I'd still want to look at it, browse through the book and get a better understanding of the thoughts and processes behind this huge thing. I know i probably wont get very indepth in to the book, but i'll know i have learnt enough to add some richness and background to my .Net knwoledge and expertise.  **Another example** : A couple of times a month i get hit with questions (usually **I** ask myself these questions...) about some stuff that i don't know how to do. It is **then** that the stuff i have browsed through over the years really comes in to play. I can usually faintly remember something i played with a few months ago, or an article i read somewhere about something related to the issue at hand. the _important_ thing is that i am not in a bubble. I am  usually just a few clicks away from the information that i need to find and where to find it ( and sometimes **where** to find it is just as important, or you can get lost in mountains of unrelated information..). --- ## 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. ### Sites - [RobotPaper](https://robotpaper.ai/): This blog: AI patterns and anti-patterns, AI and coding agents, and engineering leadership. - [osherove.com](https://osherove.com): Roy's personal site. Author of The Art of Unit Testing and Elastic Leadership; consulting and training on unit testing, TDD, team leadership and continuous delivery, plus about 20 years of blog posts. - [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. - [Elastic Leadership](https://www.elasticleadership.com): Elastic Leadership, Roy's framework for software team leaders (survival, learning and self-organizing modes). ### Social - X: https://x.com/royosherove - LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/osherove/ ### Contact - Contact form: https://forms.gle/jQSx5KoXvrVA1JCK7 ### License 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/