Jekyll2019-01-01T21:01:00+00:00https://aholmer.github.io/feed.xmlA book a week - why not?2019-12-29T00:00:00+00:002019-12-29T00:00:00+00:00https://aholmer.github.io/Intro<p>Acquiring new knowledge is essential when working in IT. It is also a great personal joy for me, and it is something i choose to work on continuously. Reading is my primary source of new knowledge, and it is to be the content of this blog. Reading and gaining new knowledge outside your own group of friends, acquaintances, and colleagues, is a neccesity, if you are to change how you see and interact with the world, and push the boundaries of status quo.</p> <p>Puh, that got a bit too much. But the purpose for this is blog is for me to reflect and review my reading, in an easy format.</p> <h2 id="the-first-review">The first review</h2> <p>The first book is a book about developing, and is to be <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/19862709-the-pragmatic-programmer">The Pragmatic Programmer</a>.</p>

Acquiring new knowledge is essential when working in IT. It is also a great personal joy for me, and it is something i choose to work on continuously. Reading is my primary source of new knowledge, and it is to be the content of this blog. Reading and gaining new knowledge outside your own group of friends, acquaintances, and colleagues, is a neccesity, if you are to change how you see and interact with the world, and push the boundaries of status quo.

2018-12-30T00:00:00+00:002018-12-30T00:00:00+00:00https://aholmer.github.io/The-Pragmatic-Programmer<p>This first book is a book about developing, and is to be <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/19862709-the-pragmatic-programmer">The Pragmatic Programmer</a>.</p> <p>The book compliment its title with the subtitle “From journeyman to master”, in an attempt to imprint the notion on the reader, that programming is a craft. I happen to agree, as I see major similarities on how a mason, through experience, is able to wwork faster, more precise, and doing more correct moves. In the same way, a developer is able to increase efficiency, and with the knowledge about design patterns or common problems, be able to quickly come up with a reusable solution.</p> <p>You quickly realise this book is not modern. It is in fact almost 20 years old, as of this writing, and it is quite clear that some some concepts and ideas have changed in the last two decades. Unfortunately for the book, it is in strong need of a review for me to really recommend it.</p> <p>Instead I would encourage a reader to grab a copy of <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3735293-clean-code">Clean Code</a>, which is a modern, practical, and in a lot of ways “pragmatic”.</p>

This first book is a book about developing, and is to be The Pragmatic Programmer.