Posts Tagged ‘book’
Made to Stick
Posted by Alexandru Palade | Filed under Uncategorized
There are a few books I read in my life and actually made any difference for me as far as I remember. One of them is one I just finished reading — Made to Stick. Co-authored by two brothers it brings insights into how you could make your ideas stick into people’s mind. The book is centered on six SUCCESs factors: Simple Unexpected Concrete Credible Emotional Stories I could ramble about what each of these factors mean, but it would make no sense. This book is so well-written that I do not want to attempt to make a summary out of it. It is like every section and chapter of this [...] Read more
Watch where you’re heading – Beyond Java
Posted by Alexandru Palade | Filed under Tech
Thanks to my current employer, we have on-line access to one great tech library – the one from Safari (O’Reilly). So, between two tasks at my job, I started reading Bruce Tate’s excellent book Beyond Java. Up to the 5th or 6th chapter, there is a presentation of Java’s history, how come it became so popular over the years, where it succeeds, but most important where it miserable fails. The next chapters (or so I’ve read, I’m not quite there yet) presents most pertinent alternatives to it and why they’re better. I will shortly present the first [...] Read more