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Sunday, September 28, 2008 1:59 AM

Book Review: Programming C# 3.0 by Jesse Liberty and Donald Xie

Resources The O'Reilly page (errata etc) Jesse Liberty's page for his various books Buy it from Amazon or Barnes and Noble Disclaimer One reader commented that a previous book review was too full of "this is only my personal opinion"...
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Monday, September 22, 2008 1:57 AM

Book review: Pro LINQ - Language Integrated Query in C# 2008, by Joe Rattz

I'm trying something slightly different this time. Joe (the author) has reacted to specific points of my review, and I think it makes sense to show those reactions. I'd originally hoped to present them so that you could toggle them on or off,...
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Sunday, September 14, 2008 4:37 PM

Book reviews - what do you look for?

I've just started writing the book review for "Pro LINQ - Language Integrated Query in C# 2008" and I wondered what people look for in a review. I've talked before about who is in the best position to write a review - but this is slightly...
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Friday, August 01, 2008 11:05 PM

Book review: Accelerated C# 2008 by Trey Nash

Time for another book review, and this time it's a due to a recommendation from a reader who has this one, C# in Depth and Head First C#. Resources Amazon Barnes and Noble Publisher's page (Apress) Introduction and disclaimer My normal book review...
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Friday, July 18, 2008 8:50 PM

Judging a book by its cover (or title)

I've ranted about versioning before (and indeed in C# in Depth). I still believe that Microsoft didn't do the world any favours when they introduced a relatively minor set of changes (just libraries, albeit important ones) with .NET 3.0 and a...
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Tuesday, July 08, 2008 6:07 PM

The trouble with book reviews

I'm currently reading two .NET books: Accelerated C# 2008 (Trey Nash) and Concurrent Programming on Windows (Joe Duffy). I will, in due course, post reviews here. However, the very act of thinking about the reviews has made me consider the inevitable...
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Friday, June 06, 2008 5:22 PM

Guest post: Joe Albahari reviews C# in Depth

Joe Albahari, co-author of the excellent C# 3.0 in a Nutshell (previously reviewed here ) kindly agreed to review C# in Depth. Not only has he provided the review below, but he also supplied several pages of notes made while he was reading it. Many of...
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Wednesday, April 23, 2008 7:47 PM

Programming "in" a language vs programming "into" a language

I'm currently reading Steve McConnell's Code Complete (for the first time - yes, I know that's somewhat worrying) and there was one section was disturbed me a little. For those of you with a copy to hand, it's in section 4.3, discussing...
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Saturday, April 19, 2008 5:21 PM

Book review: User Interface Design for Programmers (Joel Spolsky)

Resources Joel on Software (Joel's blog) Amazon Introduction This will be a brief review. It's a short book, after all - a mere 134 pages for the main body of the book. That's not a bad thing at all, mind - quite the opposite. This book is...
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Monday, March 31, 2008 4:16 PM

Book review: C# 3.0 in a Nutshell

Resources: Book's web site (includes various tools such as LINQPad) Amazon Errata Introduction The original C# in a Nutshell was the book I cut my C# teeth on, so to speak. Basically I read it (well, the bits which weren't just reproductions of...
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Friday, March 21, 2008 9:30 AM

Book review: Head First C#

Resources Book's web site Amazon page Errata Introduction This is a tough review to write. We already know I'm biased due to being in some way in competition with Andrew Stellman and Jennifer Greene (the authors), but I'm also not a huge fan...
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Monday, March 17, 2008 1:40 AM

Book review/preview: "C# Query Expressions And Supporting Features in C# 3.0" (Eckel/King)

Introduction Let me make one thing very clear before anything else: this is a preview . Bruce Eckel has made the preview of what appears to be part of a bigger book available free from his website. The book is by Bruce Eckel and Jamie King, and the preview...
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