Robby on Rails: Knowing Me, Knowing You, part 2

Knowing Me, Knowing You, part 2

Robby Russell — Tue, 29 Aug 2006 20:16:00 -0500

Earlier this month, I posted the first in the series of Knowing Me, Knowing You. In this second post, I would like to take you inside the PLANET ARGON office. More specifically… I would like to list all the books that I found on peoples desks. These aren’t books that are sitting on the bookshelves… but books that are sitting within arms reach of the employees at PLANET ARGON.

Here goes with some links to our favorite Independent bookstore, Powells.

About Face 2.0, by Alan Cooper
Activity-Centered Design, by Geri Gay
Another Roadside Attraction, by Tom Robbins
DNS & Bind Cookbook, by Cricket Liu
Mastering the Requirements Process, Suzanne Robertson
Mind Hacks, by Tom Stafford
New Utopians a Study of System Design, by Robert Boguslaw
Pragmatic Version Control: Using Subversion, by Mike Mason
Practices of an Agile Developer, by Venkat Subramaniam and Andy Hunt
Programming Ruby, by Dave Thomas
Rails Recipes , by Chad Fowler
RT Essentials, by Jesse Vincent
Thoughtful Interaction Design, by Jonas Lowgren

Care to take a guess at who is reading what?

Your Turn

Take a look around your workspace... which books are within arms reach. Right now. :-)

"Knowing Me, Knowing You, part 2" by Robert Treat

Wed, 30 Aug 2006 15:47:23 -0500

Hmm… looking around the only two books within reach are a book on XML Databases and a book on Java XML Programming. One sits under the monitor for my linux box, the other under the monitor of my windows box :-)

"Knowing Me, Knowing You, part 2" by Dave Edwards

Wed, 30 Aug 2006 10:23:23 -0500

The Elements of Style
The Canadian Style

A different kind of geeky. ;-)

Dave.
Log Buffer

"Knowing Me, Knowing You, part 2" by Nathan

Wed, 30 Aug 2006 08:37:41 -0500

Essential Actionscript 2.0 Linux in a Nutshell Refactoring – Fowler Mastering CSS

"Knowing Me, Knowing You, part 2" by Jon Wood

Wed, 30 Aug 2006 07:05:04 -0500

On the shelf just to the left of my head, you can find copies of:

The Pragmatic Programmer – Kevin Hunt & Dave Thomas
Flash Application Design Solutions – Cheung & Bryant
CSS Pocket Reference – Eric A. Meyer
Defensive Design for the Web – 37 Signals

"Knowing Me, Knowing You, part 2" by David Rice

Wed, 30 Aug 2006 05:53:50 -0500

Aha! Alan Partridge, possibly one of my more favourite comedians of the awkward comedy style :)

At this very minute I could grab

Programming Ruby – Dave Thomas and Co.
Rails Recipes – Chad Fowler
Ruby for Rails – David Black
Defensive Design for the Web – 37 Signals
Pragmatic Version Control: Using Subversion – Mike Mason

"Knowing Me, Knowing You, part 2" by Jan Wikholm

Wed, 30 Aug 2006 02:12:32 -0500

Enterprise integration with Ruby from the Pragmatic Programmers
JavaScript from IT Press
XML in a nutshell from O’Reilly
Microsoft Exchange Server 2003 – Unleashed from Sams

"Knowing Me, Knowing You, part 2" by Robby Russell

Wed, 30 Aug 2006 01:04:15 -0500

Joe,

It’s Alan Partridge… who is a fictional character from a BBC show in the UK. Google him. :-)

"Knowing Me, Knowing You, part 2" by Joe Ruby

Wed, 30 Aug 2006 00:57:02 -0500

Um, who is that a picture of? Kind of looks like Commander Data goes Leisure Suit Larry.

"Knowing Me, Knowing You, part 2" by Stephen Waits

Wed, 30 Aug 2006 00:42:46 -0500

seriously?

"Knowing Me, Knowing You, part 2" by Alex Ezell

Tue, 29 Aug 2006 22:32:23 -0500

Geez, I feel a little like a slacker since I’m supposed to be a web developer and there’s not one web dev book within reach at the moment:

Kafka On The Shore by Haruki Murakami

Beasts of No Nation by Uzodinma Iweala

The Plot Against America by Philip Roth

The Town That Forgot How To Breathe by Kenneth J. Harvey

"Knowing Me, Knowing You, part 2" by Caleb Buxton

Tue, 29 Aug 2006 21:35:04 -0500

Simulacra and Simulation by Jean Baudrillard

Emotional Design & The Design of Everyday Things Norman

thinking with type Ellen Lupton

Japanese Graphics Now Taschen

Leadership Secrets of Attila The Hun Wess Roberts

Of Grammatology Derrida

Gonzo Marketing Christopher Locke

And some Adbusters, Domus and Dilbert

"Knowing Me, Knowing You, part 2" by Jeremy Voorhis

Tue, 29 Aug 2006 20:54:14 -0500

Pragmatic Version Control: Using Subversion, by Mike Mason
Essays In Radical Empiricism, by William James
Conscientious Objections, by Neil Postman
Getting Things Done, by David Allen

Not all reference material, I know, but two of them are for a current project.