One of the first books I read on economic development, I was not aware how innovative and powerful this book was as I read it. Though it has some heavy language, everything Amartya said seemed so obvious and I wondered why it really needed to be said.
Then I read a fair amount more on the subject and have realized that this book is revolutionary.
This is a must read for anyone that doesn't know every function or API call in Drupal. It will not teach you every single one, but this book gives a good in-depth look at almost all the different facets of the Drupal coding framework.
First, let's just go over the fact that John Resig is a genius. He gave us jQuery, and for that alone, he can have my first born. But what is even greater, is that this book basically goes through the main techniques that John took to make the jQuery library. This is a must read for anyone doing JavaScript development.
It had been a long time since I read fiction, but it was a nice break. It read fast and I didn't feel like I had to pay attention or take notes. Snow Crash is great. It's one of those science fictional works that predicts the future pretty dead on. The action is great and the story-telling is wonderful. My only complaint (and not much of one) is about the huge fits of history at various points in the book. I love some history, but it could use some breaking up.
This book is great! I have a much better understanding, and more open-mind about how software gets made. I have been writing code for a long time, but this book has opened my eyes to software development in a much larger scope. I would recommend this to anyone in the tech industry, as it does a really good job of showing, through narratives, just some of the impossibilities of creating software, as well as giving some great insight into software development history.
