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To Mr Scott Ambler : book recommendation

 
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This is not related to the book promotion, but I would like to take the opportunity to ask your reading recommendation about Agile.
If you have any particular books to point at... (don't hesitate to include your own books)

Thank you.
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I personally like:
Agile Modeling (by me) for modeling
Extreme Programming Explained for XP
Agile Software Development for a good foundation

But, as always, it depends on your situation. ;-)

Unfortunately many technical people only want to learn about technical things/products, such as Hibernate, but never take the time to learn the fundamentals behind them (in this case O/R Mapping). As a result they think that they've discovered something new when they first start using that thing/product, or worse yet continue to make the same mistakes as they did in the past when they're adopting a new technology (e.g. Ruby) when they "discover" that you need to save objects into RDBs once again. My point is that learning some fundamental skills such as effective modeling or what's in Alistair's book is likely a very good career-enhancing move.

- Scott
 
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Its like buying a car, made for drifting, and you dont really know the drifting. You will feel that you have got some new and a real thing.
Am I right in saying that?
 
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Well, I buy a car to drive the car . And I don't care how the car was manufactured .

One of the car model is Hibernate. And the only one I know of, boring isn't it

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Thank you very much for the recommendations Scott.
 
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I'm not really sure about the drifting car analogy, but it sounds close.

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