August’s book selection is The Dream Team Nightmare: Boost Team Productivity Using Agile Techniques by Portia Tung (304p, published 11/13).
… Continue readingThis first-ever interactive Agile Adventure is the gripping tale of an experienced team struggling with agile adoption. In this unique
The March meeting of the Austin Computer Book Club is fast approaching. It’s just over a week until we meet again (on Tuesday, March 21), but there’s still time to grab an ebook copy of Best Software Writing I and …
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March’s book selection will be a practical/technical title: The Best Software Writing I, edited by Joel Spolsky.
… Continue reading“With a nod to both the serious and funny sides of technical writing, The Best Software Writing I: Selected and Introduced by
The winter holidays are almost upon us, 2016 is winding down, and… it’s just over a month until the next Book Club meeting! We’ll be getting together in January to talk about the essays that put the concept of “open …
January’s selection is a cultural/historical title: The Cathedral & the Bazaar, by Eric S. Raymond.
… Continue reading“It may be foolish to consider Eric Raymond’s recent collection of essays, The Cathedral and the Bazaar, the most important computer programming thinking to
Less than a week until our next meetup! We’ll be talking Steve Krug’s Don’t Make Me Think, Revisited, and we have room for you. There’s still time to grab a copy & read it quick (it is a fast …
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We’re one month out from our next meeting. There’s still plenty of time to grab a copy and read this one with us!
Here’s what Kerry Butters wrote about the book on Sitepoint, in a post titled Designer Must Reads: …
Continue readingFrom the Introduction of Steve Krug’s Don’t Make Me Think, Revisited:
We’re reading this for the October 26 meeting; join us!…
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October’s selection is back to a technical title, and was the 2nd-place winner from the last poll: Don’t Make Me Think, Revisited (3rd ed.), by Steve Krug:
… Continue readingSince Don’t Make Me Think was first published in 2000, hundreds of
A brief history of the meetup prior to the creation of this website: