Dawn of night was ok but it went downhill from there. On a sidenote i have started reading the latest Drizzt trilogy.

Thumbs up. Worth reading.

Good stuff. I enjoyed Joe Armstrong interview the most. The only nitpick i have is that the author didn't insisted more on "development tools". From my point of view a programmers is partially "defined" by the tools is using so it was a little disappointing to see that they talked so little about this.Recommended.

Funny thing....the intro movie from The Witcher is actually based on the first chapter of the book. Good stuff. The book is composed of a few short stories interwoven together. It's okeish but nothing great. I hope the saga will be better  (although it will take some years until it will be translated in english....the second book in the serie was written in 1995 and it will be released in english in 2010).

 

 

It's a pretty good reference book. Sometime it feels like it rehashes POEAA but overall the content is ok. The only exception is the Data Access chapter which could have simply been replaced with "Use a ORM".

I had high hopes for this trilogy but it turns out to be bad to mediocre. I think it would have been a lot better if the writing would have been more “focused” and everything would happen in one sequence of events. Instead the writing is pretty tedious and the plot is drawn out.

So…avoid.

I have became pretty interested in game development lately (as a hobby)  and so i've started learning XNA. The first step was to read "Learn XNA 3.0" which is a pretty good book on the subject (although the XNA API could have been explained a little more thoroughly).

A somehow different fantasy trilogy. Has a few good points but the overall story arc is slightly disappointing  and it would have helped if the writing were a little more “direct”. Loved the conclusion from the last page though.

Unfortunately overall is hard to recommend.

Pretty good. I wouldn’t say if as “effective” as the first one but it’s worth a read.

 

Must read trilogy from Jennifer Fallon.