Joan Llenas

Not yet but they are on a plane flying way home…

• Clean Code: I have had the pleasure of reading the first hundred pages or so and I must admit that the book, for which I was kind of sceptical initially, has surprised me a lot in a positive way.
  As far as I understand it, the book is about writing code in a way that is easy maintainable, easy to read and ultimately a fun and a pleasure to work with. Everything a piece of software aims to become, in a grammatical / semantical way, it’s somehow explained in this book.
  If you liked “The Pragmatic Programmer” it’s very likely that you’ll enjoy this one as well.
• Patterns of Enterprise Application Architecture: This sourcebook is a must have in any Enterprise focused software company bookshelf. If you have it at the office you’ll probably end up buying it yourself as I did… The title speaks by itself, so do the book author name.
• UML distilled: This was the book that introduced me to UML modeling. Coining a piece of one of the book’s review: “It is still arguably the best resource for quick, no-nonsense explanations of using UML”.
  The book covers not only the notation but also a detailed description of actual purpose of each diagram type.