---
title: "Four cool books to give away at today's C# user group"
url: "https://osherove.com/blog/2006/6/20/four-cool-books-to-give-away-at-todays-c-user-group.md"
canonical: "https://osherove.com/blog/2006/6/20/four-cool-books-to-give-away-at-todays-c-user-group.html"
published: "2006-06-20T23:10:00"
updated: "2006-06-20T23:10:00"
tags: ["ASP.NET", "C#", "Community News"]
author: "Roy Osherove"
description: "If you're planning on showing up today to the Israeli C# User Group meeting (Wednesday) be prepared for a great raffle I'm planning in the end. I try to make it a habit to bring along cool books to presentations I host.…"
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/"
---

# Four cool books to give away at today's C\# user group

By Roy Osherove June 20, 2006 In [ASP.NET](https://osherove.com/blog/category/asp-net), [C#](https://osherove.com/blog/category/c), [Community News](https://osherove.com/blog/category/community-news)

**Historical article** · Originally published June 20, 2006; technical details may be outdated.

If you're planning on [showing up today to the Israeli C# User Group meeting](https://weblogs.asp.net/rosherove/archive/2006/06/18/IVCUGJune2006.aspx) (Wednesday) be prepared for a great raffle I'm planning in the end.

I try to make it  a habit to bring along cool books to presentations I host. Since I'm hosting this session with Dan Amiga, and it's about ASP.NET, I'm brining in **four cool books** to raffle off at the end.

Showing up would be a **good idea**.

[![](https://osherove.com/img/wb/951d0ecf_images.amazon.com_images_P_0321294475.01._SCMZZZZZZZ_.jpg)
Maximizing ASP.NET : Real World, Object-Oriented Development](https://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0321294475/iserializable-20)

[![](https://osherove.com/img/wb/9f13c96f_images.amazon.com_images_P_073561962X.01._SCMZZZZZZZ_.jpg)
Introducing Microsoft SQL Server(TM) 2005 for Developers (Pro - Developer)](https://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/073561962X/iserializable-20)

[![](https://osherove.com/img/wb/9aeae0f0_images.amazon.com_images_P_0735622019.01._SCMZZZZZZZ_.jpg)
Microsoft ASP.NET 2.0 Step By Step (Step By Step (Microsoft))](https://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0735622019/iserializable-20)

[![](https://osherove.com/img/wb/e160ac45_images.amazon.com_images_P_0735619492.01._SCMZZZZZZZ_.jpg)
Extreme Programming Adventures in C# (DV-Microsoft Professional)](https://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0735619492/iserializable-20)

_(What did you expect from an Agile Dude? No Agile Book?)_

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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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### 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/