I'm a software engineer and teacher at the Computer Science and IT Systems departments. I'm an IBM Certified Specialist for Rational Unified Process, IBM Certified Specialist for Requirements Management w/Use Cases, IBM Rational Solution Sales Professional, ITIL Foundation Certified Professional and OMG UML 2.0 Certified Professional
I love to read books. Some of the authors and subjects I like … Read more
I'm a software engineer and teacher at the Computer Science and IT Systems departments. I'm an IBM Certified Specialist for Rational Unified Process, IBM Certified Specialist for Requirements Management w/Use Cases, IBM Rational Solution Sales Professional, ITIL Foundation Certified Professional and OMG UML 2.0 Certified Professional
I love to read books. Some of the authors and subjects I like to read:
Kafka, Shakespeare, Oscar Wilde, Rabelais, Cervantes, Orwell, Fernando Pessoa, Isaac Bashevis Singer, Gershom Scholem, Nietzsche, Platao, Heschel, Norbert Elias, Emmanuel Levinas, Hannah Arendt, Winston Churchill, H. P. Lovecraft, Duby, Le Goff, Iehuda HaLevi, Maimonides, Robert Heinlein, John Lukacs, Umberto Eco, Heine, Goethe, Edgar Allan Poe, Primo Levi, Elie Wiesel, Dante, Maquiavel, Hobbes, Voltaire, Rousseau, Camus, Sartre, Schopenhauer, Flaubert, Balzac, Jorge Luis Borges, Lampedusa, Spinoza, Erasmo de Roterdam, Freud, Marcuse, Pablo Neruda, Castro Alves, Alvares de Azevedo. Also a lot of technical books about J2EE, .NET, software project management, software processes, agile methodologies and software development in general!!!
This book is a good and condensed overview of this key moment in History. From the ruins of the Ottoman Empire emerged the modern Middle East. The book don't delve deeply in the subjects treated, but it achieves its aims to be an introductory reading.
If you wish to read more detailed books about this period I recommend:
The Emergence of the Middle East - 1914-1924, by Howard Sachar
A Peace to End all Peace: The Fall of the Ottoman Empire and the Creation of the Modern Middle East, by David Fromkin
This book is a must read for everyone delving into the practice of Continuous Integration. In my opinion, Continuous Integration is one of the most important practices to really achieve agility and to mitigate risks related to architecture and software integration.
The book contains more than 40 practices related to this important subject. For me, an experienced software engineer who already uses and knows a lot of CI tools, the best chapters are those which illuminate how to do Continuous Database Integration (Chapter 5), Continuous Testing (Chapter 6) and Continuous Inspection (Chapter 7).
Another great plus of this book is Appendix B on how to evaluate CI… Read more
First it's important for me to say I already became a fan of the authors when I read their excellent book "Use Case Modeling". As I said in my review(still valid to this date): "If you can buy only one book about use cases, then buy this one !!!!". They created a masterpiece about RUP Requirements discipline.
Well... now, with the release of "Managing Iterative Software Development Projects", they did another SW Engineering best-of-breed book about Project Management(with RUP and also other agile approaches!).
With agile and iterative approaches becoming the mainstream in SW processes (just see how IBM, Borland, Microsoft, Compuware and other SW products companies… Read more
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