---
title: "Book of the month"
url: "https://osherove.com/blog/2004/2/17/book-of-the-month.md"
canonical: "https://osherove.com/blog/2004/2/17/book-of-the-month.html"
published: "2004-02-17T04:27:00"
updated: "2004-02-17T04:27:00"
tags: ["Off Topic", "Recommended books"]
author: "Roy Osherove"
description: "New book of the month for this blog: Patterns of Enterprise Application Architecture Get this book if you are an experienced developer and have been fighting with designing applications from the ground up, including…"
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/"
---

# Book of the month

By Roy Osherove February 17, 2004 In [Off Topic](https://osherove.com/blog/category/off-topic), [Recommended books](https://osherove.com/blog/category/recommended-books)

**Historical article** · Originally published February 17, 2004; technical details may be outdated.

New book of the month for this blog:

**[Patterns of Enterprise Application Architecture](https://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0321127420/iserializable-20)**

[![Book of the month: Patterns of Enterprise Application Architecture](https://osherove.com/img/wb/2d2a4120_images.amazon.com_images_P_0321127420.01._PE22_PIdp-schmoo2_TopRight_7_-26_SCMZZZZZZZ_.jpg)](https://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0321127420/iserializable-20)

Get this book if you are an experienced developer and have been fighting with designing applications from the ground up, including data layer, business layer and UI layer. It will open your eye. Of course, if you did not read [Design Patterns](https://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0201633612/iserializable-20) first, you **have** to get that one first. Trust me.

[More recommendations](http://dotnetweblogs.com/rosherove/story/6802.aspx)

## More in Off Topic

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

- Feb 17, 2004

    ### [We Are Morons: a quick look at the Win2k source](https://osherove.com/blog/2004/2/17/we-are-morons-a-quick-look-at-the-win2k-source.html)

- Feb 17, 2004

    ### [Community application blocks revisited - with a twist](https://osherove.com/blog/2004/2/17/community-application-blocks-revisited-with-a-twist.html)

- Feb 15, 2004

    ### [Small Israeli DevDays rants](https://osherove.com/blog/2004/2/15/small-israeli-devdays-rants.html)

- Feb 13, 2004

    ### [MVP Recommendation: James Crowley](https://osherove.com/blog/2004/2/13/mvp-recommendation-james-crowley.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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