Book Club
Series Archive
2026
2025
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Book Club 10&11/2025: .NET 10, C# 14
Another Thanksgiving, another .NET! -
Book Club 6&7/2025: Async
Not the keyword, but asynchronous communication. It just seemed that 'Async' as a title was more interesting. -
Book Club 6&7/2025: OOP
Just some blabbering about OOP, paradigms, and being non-dogmatic -
Book Club 4&5/2025: Incidents and Resiliency
Thinking more about responding to and preventing incidents -
Book Club 2&3/2025: Slack: Communication, Organization, Teams
On various aspects of teamwork, communication, and the like -
Book Club 1/25: Results, Railways, and Decisions
A story on a successful result and insights gained from some more heady research this month.
2024
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Book Club 12/2024: Team Metrics and KPIs
Allow neither ignorange nor complacency to abuse metrics or KPIs; these are important tools for the competent professional. -
Book Club 11/2024: No
On forming quality opinions and saying 'no' -
Book Club 10/2024: Fallacies of Distributed Computing
Putting a pin in the series I wrote this year on the topic of these Fallacies -
Book Club 9/2024: Blogroll
I've been dying to ask you; I really want to know: where do you get your ideas from? -
Book Club 8/2024: Labor
Using Labor Day as an excuse to wonder about some recent trends in the industry -
Book Club 6&7/2024: Postgres
I have become further radicalized to the opinion that we should all just be using PostgreSQL -
Book Club 5/2024: SOLID
Is SOLID still relevant? -
Book Club 4/2024: I Don't Like ORMs
Object-relational mappers are more trouble than they're worth. -
Book Club 3/2024: Simplicity
Everything is too complicated. -
Book Club 2/2024: Recovering from TDD and Unit Tests
TDD and unit tests are overused and often misprescribed. What do we really hope to gain from our tests, and what testing practices support our goals? -
Book Club 1/2024: What is a Software Architect?
A few meandering and maybe unhelpful thoughts on the title "Software Architect"
2023
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Book Club 12/2023: Workflow, Process, and Agile
Some thoughts on how to organize software development and teams, and how non-technical factors help (or hinder) us developing better software. -
Book Club 11/2023: New .NET, New C#
The release of .NET 8 brings a lot of features I'm excited for! -
Book Club 10/2023: Functional Patterns in C#
This month I've focused on functional domain modeling and related patterns. We're just a few weeks away from the release of the next version of C#, and like each previous version it'll introduce even more functional features. -
Book Club 9/2023: Papers I Love
Reflecting on the final Strange Loop conference, having attended several 'Papers We Love' talks, I'm motivated to share five papers I love.