Though I still feel that I’m behind on my reading schedule, I’ve managed to do some progress. Just sharing two of the best books I read in the last days:

First runner is “Beautiful Code” by Andy Oram and Greg Wilson.

   The kicks straight off into a Regular Expression Matcher, goes to Finding Things, Beautiful Concurrency, Beautiful Debugging, Code in Motion and so on. The beautiful thing about it is that the levels of abstraction differ a lot from chapter to chapter. So does the author, the technologies, everything, but the bottom line and the little thing they show is how you can keep the code brilliant! Top notch! Top contributors!

The second runner is “Expert C++/CLI: .NET for Visual C++  Programmers” by Marcus Heege.

    In the long run, motivated enough, I finally had the guts to pick up C++/CLI and dig in. Expecting a not so pleasant meal, I was amazed by the ease with which I could go through the book: managed and unmanaged pointers, assemblies loading and deployment, C++/CLI interop, mixed compilation, native types, C/C++ stucts/classes in Managed Code! Heege with the technical review of Stanley Lippman (!!!) produced the first book on C++/CLI that I could finish reading :P

How did they put it? Three generations side-by-side: