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Review of Look Both Ways

March 3rd, 2010 No comments
Look Both Ways: Help Protect Your Family on the Internet

I was impressed by this common-sense approach to online safety. Through a lot of the problems out there involve kids and teens, the authors really drive home the point that everybody is at some risk and everybody can be safer if they use their heads. Then the book tells you how to do just that. [...]

Review of Threat Modeling

February 7th, 2010 No comments
Threat Modeling (Microsoft Professional)

In my review Thread Modeling (spelt with captials) refers to the book, thread modeling (spelt without capitals) refers to the subject.
Open the cover of this book and the first thing you see in large, bold print is `Reviewer Acclaim for Frank Swiderski, Window Snyder, and Threat Modeling’. I doubt that I’m the only one to [...]

Review of Code Complete

January 1st, 2010 No comments
Code Complete: A Practical Handbook of Software Construction

It was a pleasure to find out that this book had been updated when I reads news of it. CC2 is a great one-stop ‘place’ to go to when you want a great excuse to apply Stephen Covey’s ‘Sharpen The Saw’ principle. This updated version has some solid, fantastic, expert instruction on designing from scratch, [...]

Review of Rapid Development

November 29th, 2009 No comments
Rapid Development: Taming Wild Software Schedules

As a developer, you have been on that project.  The one that seems that it will never end. Requirements change daily, testing seems to discover new bugs faster than you can fix them, release dates come and go and noone seems to know when the project will be completed. If you’re like me, maybe you thought [...]