Vargas Software Development

At the present moment, I’ve just written a book: Introducción a Visual Basic 2005 Express. Ed. Inated.

However, this is not about the books I wrote (I would write another book, if I were offered), but about those books and articles I read. I write down their titles or authors because I am often asked to give references about them and I cannot recommend them to my colleagues or friends because I forget the title.

Feel free to visit my wish list if you would want to know what I am planning to buy next (or if you want to make me a present instead).

Currently reading

• Computer Networks (4th Edition), Andrew S. Tanenbaum.
• Programming Firefox: Building Rich Internet Applications with XUL, Kenneth Feldt.
• What Every Programmer Should Know About Memory, Ulrich Drepper.

2009

• Operative Systems, Design & Implementation, Andrew S. Tanenbaum.
• The C Programming Language (2nd Edition), Kernighan and Ritchie.
• Programming Interviews Exposed
• ¿Por qué dejé de ser de izquierdas?, Javier Somalo.
• The Game, Neil Strauss
• Campos de Castilla, Antonio Machado.
• Reorganizing Unix for Realibility, Andrew S. Tanenbaum [paper]
• Mastering Regular Expressions, Jeffrey E. F. Friedl
• Power Play, Joseph Finder.
• Object-Oriented Software Construction, Bertrand Meyer
• Application Architecture for .NET: Designing Applications and Services
• How to win friends and influence people, Dale Carnegie
• A Good Hard Kick in the Ass: Basic Training for Entrepreneurs, Rob Adams
• (Still filling …)

2008

• Best Software Writings I
• Learn Prolog Now!
• Le Petit Prince, Saint-Exupery
• A Short Introduction to Operating Systems, Mark Burgess
• Hackers & Painter, Paul Graham
• Approaching Zero: The Extraordinary Underworld of Hackers, Phreakers, Virus Writers, and Keyboard Criminals, Paul Mungo
• Who moved my cheese?, Spencer Johnson
• Code Complete 2nd Ed., Steve McConnell
• Nineteen eighty-four, George Orwell
• Animal Farm, George Orwell
• La república, Marco Tulio Cicerón
• Las leyes, Marco Tulio Cicerón
• Archipiélago Gulag, Alexander Solzhenitsyn (Vol. 1 y 2)
• The Bear and the Dragon, Tom Clancy (Vol. 1)
  
• Version Control with Subversion (For subversion 1.5)
• ANTLR Reference Manual (2.7 edition)
• Structured Computer Organization, Andrew S. Tanenbaum
• A Mathematician’s Lament, Paul Lockhart (Article)
• On the cruelty of really teaching computing science, Edward Dijkstra (Talk)

2007

• Essential Silverlight, Christian Wenz
• El Tambor de Hojalata, Gunter Grass
• The Business of Software, Eric Sink
• Getting Real, Bob Walsh
• Building wealth, Lester Thrurow
• Programming Interviews Exposed
• How would you move mount Fuji?, William Poundstone
• Emergence: The Connected Lives of Ants, Brains, Cities, and Software, Steven Johnson
• Microsoft .NET Compact Framework (Core Reference)
• Applied XML Programming for Microsoft .NET
• El Agente Secreto, Joseph Conrad
• Cismatrix, Bruce Steerling
• NetForce: La red del mal, Tom Clancy
• NetForce: Al límite, Tom Clancy
• Abril en París, Michael Wallner
• Cuentos de amor y del Norte, César Gavela
• TV Nation, Michael Moore
• Dictadores, Dr. Gustav Bychowski
• Los Manipuladores, Isabelle Nazare-aga
• First Head Design Patterns.
• Micro-ISV: From Vision to Reality, Bob Walsh
• User Interface Design for Programmers, Joel Spolsky
• Peopleware: Productive Projects and Teams, Tom DeMarco
• Programming Microsoft ASP.NET 2.0 Core Reference, Dino Esposito
• Sobre software libre, Vicente Matellán Olivera
• Introducción a la programación lógica con Prolog.
• Some of the fabulous Paul Graham’s Essays.
• A huge number of posts from Joel Spolsky