Jurgen has researched a couple of Top 100 things about books and blogs , which is very nice to see. I guess he put quite some effort to prepare these lists ; Here are the links ; Top 100 Best books for managers & leaders Top 100 Blogs for development managers Top 100 Best software engineering books Thanks Jurgen!

I did able to finish part 2 , but I think , I am not going to write much about that . I kinda got bored about the story. It wasn't that muc existing as it was for Paypal. He was working in the Apple and by somehow , found himself writing a web-based email system. Within 20 months , the Hotmail was acquired by Microsoft at a price of $400 million. It was more like a I did this , they did that story. Not that much to talk about. Sorry Sabeer!. But I will re-evaluate my thoughts and...

Wow , pages have flown pretty quickly. Already finished 16 pages , and read  the story behind the  paypal and the guy behind it ; MAX LEVCHIN He started with cryptography and wrote some software packages into Palm Pilot ,and started the business around that. Afterwards , they did able to raise fund  around the Silicon Valley VC's. Although they have changed their business plan 6 times ,the last one was the PayPal. The most story was around the fraud thing , and how the other web payment companies had been smashed by the fraud loses. Max spent most of...

This book has been written by Jessica Livingston in 2007. I decided to give it a change. I also put a deadline to myself , otherwise it takes more time then it actually should. I will also try to write down some notes, thus I can summarize what I have read , and what things are going to be triggered afterward. My deadline is 7th of December, so I have 2 weeks to finish it up. Some quotes from the book ( copied from author's website, I hope she doesn't mind ) ; 2000 was basically the year of fraud, where...

I am able to finish Chapter 6 - While you are coding and  Chapter 7 - Before the Project . These chapters triggered my understandings about the topics and made me reconsider everything I know about software development , requirement analysis , tools etc. . I would like to give a sneak preview what I have been reading so far. On Chapter 6 ,Programming by coincidence is my current favorite. It explains why some piece of code might works or assume the code is working. I was shocked and confused when I first read the title, but whenever I went into...

I have started to read The Pragmatic Programmer about a week ago , and still trying to finish. I am current at Chapter  5 , "Bend or Break". Since now , it has been quite a nice journey to read the chapters. Although the book has been written at 1999 , it is pretty much actual. What this book gives us is the phylosophy behind the software development , ways to improve ourselves in daily basis , easify our job , solid tecniques to more flexiable , adaptable , configurable software development. Also includes a lot of suggestions to improve...