Having recently read The Pragmatic Programmer and Working Effectively with Legacy Code (both books are amazing - and neither need further review or description as they are globally appreciated as classics), I was feeling ready to read something non-development related, just to get back on my feet again. I'd heard our CEO speaking highly of a sales book by Frank Bettger, but I'd never really thought more of it. When I found a copy of How I Raised Myself from Failure to Success in Selling in a bag I'd borrowed for a trip to Belgium, I thought...

I just finished reading the book Programmers at Work by Susan Lammers. It's a unique book unlike most others I've read. Most of the books I read are practically oriented, how to do this, how to do that (in an abstract way, but still practical). Programmers at Work contains interviews with 19 of the most influential computer programmers, written in the early 80's. It's an eye opener how similar the though processes, scenarios and development ideas where back then to what we're used to today. They didn't have nearly the same facilities at hand, neither hardware...