Books

In this page I will list and link my favourite books as well as books that belong to my wish list.

Sony eBook Reader

For those of you who are commuting everyday, as I do, by train or by bus or by underground and like to read during their daily journeys. We can leave our books at home! Now there is the portable Sony reader, an ebook reader enabling you to read your pdf files everywhere!
Sony Reader 6″ Digital Book – Dark Blue (PRS-505/LC)

IT Books

	Design Patterns: Elements of Reusable Object-Oriented Software (Addison-Wesley Professional Computing Series) No comments needed for this book! It is THE must have: the original patterns by the GoF. I’m currently reading it, I will let you know.
	Programming .NET Components, 2nd Edition I only read few excerpts but this book appears to be a must have. In my business we currently follow recommendations by Juval Lowy exposed in the “C# Coding Standards” document that you can download from here. Otherwise you can find it at the IDesign website.
	This book is a complete and easy to read introduction to all the different parts of .NET framework 2.0. Never out of date. It has been the first .NET related book that I read.
	Working With Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 I’m currently reading it. Interesting book if you want to learn how easy is to customize your working environment or to extend Visual Studio 2005 with macro and addins.
	Learn to write useful scripts to drive your Windows behavior as well as to retrieve all the information you need from PCs on your network.Plenty of VBScript code samples and excellent attached CD material.
	Perfect beginner’s guide: simple explanations of OOP concepts and of Visual C# and Visual Basic.NET features. Plenty of examples in both languages.
	Test Driven Development: By Example (The Addison-Wesley Signature Series) Test Driven development explained by the creator of Extreme Programming who is also the person who rediscovered Test-Driven Development.
	Pragmatic Unit Testing in C# with NUnit, 2nd Edition An agile guide to Unit Testing with Nunit.

Recently read books

	The Brothers Karamazov: A Novel in Four Parts and an Epilogue – Fedor Dostoevskij
	A Scanner Darkly – Philip K. Dick
	Blindness – José Saramago
	Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass
	The Boys from Brazil – Ira Levin
	The Turn of the Screw – Henry James