Eragon & Eldest by Christopher Paolini
The first two books in his “Inheritance” trilogy, Eragon is the story of a young man who finds a dragon’s egg, which hatches shortly thereafter. Eragon and the dragon, Saphira, form a very close...
View ArticleNail the Job Interview by Caryl & Ron Kranich
I got absolutely nothing out of this book, and I doubt anyone else will either unless they have very little experience interviewing. It might be a good book for high school graduates, or socially...
View ArticleA PC Bigot Comes Full Circle
When I was about 12, I used a Macintosh computer for the first time. I was amazed by the small disk drive and the little pointer device I’d never seen before: a mouse. It was my friends mac, and it was...
View ArticleBook Review: The No Asshole Rule by Robert I. Sutton, PhD
I have to admit I was a little bit uncomfortable purchasing this book. I don’t use “bad” language often. As a general rule, if my seven year old daughter isn’t allowed to say it, neither am I. Every...
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My Lulu Experiment
Dave Christiansen is the founder and managing editor of TechDarkSide.com. He manages projects for a Fortune 100 financial services company and writes and talks about project management. He can be...
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Review: Manage It! by Johanna Rothman
Manage It! Your Guide to Modern, Pragmatic Project Management by Johanna Rothman is the best project management reference I’ve ever read, and I’ve seen my share of project management tomes. Here’s...
View ArticleBook Review: The Last Lecture by Randy Pausch
Today is my 35th birthday. It doesn’t feel particularly old to me, but it does feel like a milestone. It feels like I was supposed to have done something with myself by this age, that I should be more...
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Book Review: User Stories Applied by Mike Cohn
I’m pretty much allergic to any form of requirements documentation. Change control makes my skin itch, and big up front planning makes me vomit. But I also am not totally comfortable with winging it...
View ArticleDownload the Latest Issue of AST Magazine for Free!
As many of you know, I am the managing editor of the Association for Software Testing‘s magazine, temporarily titled “AST Updated: Smart Stuff for Career Software Testers”. The current issue, of which...
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My Favorite Fiction List
Reading fiction has been an important part of my life for as long as I can remember. We didn’t own a lot of books growing up, but the library was only a short walk away, and it had fantastic air...
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