---
title: "Book of the month"
url: "https://osherove.com/blog/2004/3/5/book-of-the-month.md"
canonical: "https://osherove.com/blog/2004/3/5/book-of-the-month.html"
published: "2004-03-05T21:44:00"
updated: "2004-03-05T21:44:00"
tags: ["Free book chapters", "Recommended books"]
author: "Roy Osherove"
description: "My book of the month: Writing Secure Code, Second Edition After reading almost half of it I can safely say this book is a must for every developer. Getting into that security \"state of mind\", or even just awareness , is…"
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 March 5, 2004 In [Free book chapters](https://osherove.com/blog/category/free-book-chapters), [Recommended books](https://osherove.com/blog/category/recommended-books)

**Historical article** · Originally published March 5, 2004; technical details may be outdated.

My book of the month:

[![Book of the month: Writing Secure Code, Second Edition](https://osherove.com/img/wb/22b5cc47_images.amazon.com_images_P_0735617228.01._PE30_PIdp-schmooS_TopRight_7_-26_SCMZZZZZZZ_.jpg)](https://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0735617228/iserializable-20)

[Writing Secure Code, Second Edition](https://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0735617228/iserializable-20)

After reading almost half of it I can safely say this book is a must for every developer. Getting into that security "state of mind", or even just _awareness_, is something we owe our customers, and ourselves.

## More in Free book chapters

[All posts in Free book chapters](https://osherove.com/blog/category/free-book-chapters)

- Apr 5, 2004

    ### [Sample chapter from "The Visual Basic .NET Programming Language" available](https://osherove.com/blog/2004/4/5/sample-chapter-from-quotthe-visual-basic-net-programming-lan.html)

- Mar 31, 2004

    ### [VS.Net Database Projects - learn to use them (Sample chapter included)](https://osherove.com/blog/2004/3/31/vsnet-database-projects-learn-to-use-them-sample-chapter-inc.html)

- Jan 16, 2004

    ### [Three free recipes from "ADO.NET Cookbook"](https://osherove.com/blog/2004/1/16/three-free-recipes-from-quotadonet-cookbookquot.html)

- Jan 14, 2004

    ### [Code Complete 2. Good, but not a silver bullet](https://osherove.com/blog/2004/1/14/code-complete-2-good-but-not-a-silver-bullet.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.

### 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).

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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/