Books I have read so far this year

So far this year I have read:

• Never Have Your Dog Stuffed: And Other Things I've Learned by Alan Alda. Very funny in parts, especially the stuffed dog. :-)
• Companies That Changed the World by by Jonathan Mantle. It was a Christmas present. Best to scan in the bookshop.
• Name Dropping: An Incomplete Memoir by Kate Fitzpatrick. The more I read it, the more I did not like her. Give it a miss.
• Steve & Me by Terri Irwin. Just an amazing man, well worth reading.
• No Time for Goodbye by Linwood Barclay. A good page turner, but an obvious in the ending.
• Some books by Jeremy Clarkson. Lot's of little stories, so good for ram raiding (pun intended:-).

I am impressed with how many non-technical books I have read this year. For the new project I am working on, I have been glad to be able to dig into my library for the following books:

• UML Distilled by Martin Fowler. An essential when brushing up on the finer points of UML diagrams.
• Enterprise Integration Patterns: Designing, Building, and Deploying Messaging Solutions by Gregor Hohpe and Bobby Woolf. I bought it ages ago and now it is proving invaluable.
• Prefactoring by Ken Pugh. Useful to skim read again to be reminded of things to consider in a green fields implementation. Same goes for Effective Enterprise Java by Ted Neward.