--- title: "What's On My Bookshelf" url: "https://osherove.com/blog/2003/5/9/whats-on-my-bookshelf.md" canonical: "https://osherove.com/blog/2003/5/9/whats-on-my-bookshelf.html" published: "2003-05-09T21:36:00" updated: "2003-05-09T21:36:00" tags: ["Off Topic"] author: "Roy Osherove" description: "I always like to see what other people are reading so I'll share my own list. I'm probably missing a few, but I'll update as needed. I'll also put this on my \"about\" zone as a story. .Net Advanced .Net Remoting ASP.NET…" 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/" --- # What's On My Bookshelf By Roy Osherove May 9, 2003 In [Off Topic](https://osherove.com/blog/category/off-topic) **Historical article** · Originally published May 9, 2003; technical details may be outdated. I always like to see what other people are reading so I'll share my own list. I'm probably missing a few, but I'll update as needed. I'll also put this on my "about" zone as a story. ### .Net [Advanced .Net Remoting](https://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/1590590252/qid=1052526257/sr=8-1/ref=sr_8_1/104-0728248-0448757?v=glance&s=books) [ASP.NET Website Programming: Problem - Design - Solution C# Edition](https://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/1861006934/qid=1052590666/sr=8-1/ref=sr_8_1/104-0728248-0448757?v=glance&s=books) [Applied Microsoft .Net Framework Programming](https://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0735614229/qid=1052526287/sr=8-1/ref=sr_8_1/104-0728248-0448757?v=glance&s=books) [Programming Windows with C#](https://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0735613702/qid=1052526311/sr=8-1/ref=sr_8_1/104-0728248-0448757?v=glance&s=books) [Inside C#](https://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0735616485/qid=1052526349/sr=1-1/ref=sr_1_1/104-0728248-0448757?v=glance&s=books) [MCAD/MCSD Training Guide (70-315): Developing and Implementing Web Applications with Visual C# and Visual Studio.NET](https://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0789728222/qid=1052527001/104-0728248-0448757) [MCAD/MCSD Visual Basic(r) .NET(tm) Windows(r) Applications Study Guide (Exam 70-306)](https://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0072125837/qid=1052527106/sr=11-1/ref=sr_11_1/104-0728248-0448757)   ### VB [VB Programmer’s Guide to the Win32API](https://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0672315904/qid=1052526398/sr=1-1/ref=sr_1_1/104-0728248-0448757?v=glance&s=books) [Advanced Visual Basic 6.0](https://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B00006L568/qid=1052526423/sr=1-2/ref=sr_1_2/104-0728248-0448757?v=glance&s=books) [Ready To Run Visual Basic Algorithms](https://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0471242683/qid=1052526458/sr=1-1/ref=sr_1_1/104-0728248-0448757?v=glance&s=books) ### Coding Practices [Code Complete](https://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1556154844/qid=1052526522/sr=2-1/ref=sr_2_1/104-0728248-0448757) [The Pragmatic Programmer](https://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/020161622X/qid=1052526572/sr=1-1/ref=sr_1_1/104-0728248-0448757?v=glance&s=books) ### XP [Extreme Programming Applied](https://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0201616408/qid=1052526175/sr=8-1/ref=sr_8_1/104-0728248-0448757?v=glance&s=books) [Extreme Programming explained](https://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0201616416/qid=1052526214/sr=8-1/ref=sr_8_1/104-0728248-0448757?v=glance&s=books) ### Interaction Design [The Design of Everyday Things](https://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0465067107/qid=1052526474/sr=2-1/ref=sr_2_1/104-0728248-0448757) [The inmates are running the asylum](https://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0672316498/qid=1052526491/sr=1-1/ref=sr_1_1/104-0728248-0448757?v=glance&s=books) [GUI Bloopers](https://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1558605827/qid=1052526509/sr=11-1/ref=sr_11_1/104-0728248-0448757) ### Project Management [Design Patterns](https://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0201633612/qid=1052526539/sr=2-1/ref=sr_2_1/104-0728248-0448757) [Rapid Development](https://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1556159005/qid=1052526553/sr=2-1/ref=sr_2_1/104-0728248-0448757) [That Mythical Man-Month](https://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0201835959/qid=1052526594/sr=2-1/104-0728248-0448757?v=glance&s=books) [The Deadline](https://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0932633390/qid=1052526610/sr=2-2/ref=sr_2_2/104-0728248-0448757) [PeopleWare](https://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0932633439/qid=1052526629/sr=1-1/ref=sr_1_1/104-0728248-0448757?v=glance&s=books) ### Other [The man who loved only numbers](https://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0786884061/qid=1052526147/sr=8-1/ref=sr_8_1/104-0728248-0448757?v=glance&s=books) ## More in Off Topic [All posts in Off Topic](https://osherove.com/blog/category/off-topic) - May 10, 2003 ### [Blog Junkie](https://osherove.com/blog/2003/5/10/blog-junkie.html) - May 10, 2003 ### [Weird](https://osherove.com/blog/2003/5/10/weird.html) - May 8, 2003 ### [The Unofficial "Mort" Logo Is Available](https://osherove.com/blog/2003/5/8/the-unofficial-quotmortquot-logo-is-available.html) - May 8, 2003 ### [Serious Hotmail Vulnerability: Easily Reset Anyone's Password](https://osherove.com/blog/2003/5/8/serious-hotmail-vulnerability-easily-reset-anyones-password.html) --- ## 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). 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