Readings
Here are the books I am currently reading and some of the books I loved particularly in the past, besides those I need to study for my university exams.
Please feel free to drop a comment to suggest me a book worth a reading, or just to discuss any of the books listed below.
In progress:
- Agile Estimating and Planning (M. Cohn)
- Beautiful Code: Leading Programmers Explain How They Think (A. Oram & G. Wilson eds.)
- Escape from freedom (E. Fromm)
Books worth a reading:
- Pattern-Oriented Software Architecture Volume 1: A System of Patterns (F. Buschmann et al.)
- RESTful Web Services (Leonard Richardson and Sam Ruby)
- The Rational Unified Process: an introduction (Philip Kruchten)
- Eclipse: Building Commercial-quality Plug-ins (Eric Clayberg and Dan Rubels).
- Design Patterns: Elements of Reusable Object-Oriented Software” (Erich Gamma, Richard Helm, Ralph Johnson, John Vlissides)
- “The Business of Software: What Every Manager, Programmer, and Entrepreneur Must Know to Thrive and Survive in Good Times and Bad” (Michael Cusumano)
- “Software Engineering“ (Ian Sommerville)
- “Il secolo cinese” (Federico Rampini, “The chinese Century”)
- “L’impero di Cindia” (Federico Rampini, “China’s and India’s Empire”)
- “The art of always being right” (Arthur Schopenhauer)
- “How to Win Friends and Influence People” (Dale Carnegie)
- “Kinds of Power: A Guide to its Intelligent Uses” (James Hillman)
- “Getting Things Done” (David Allen)
- “Emotional Intelligence: Why It Can Matter More Than IQ” (Daniel Goleman)
- “Una storia semplice” (Leonardo Sciascia)
- “Uno, nessuno e centomila” (Luigi Pirandello)
- “Diario di un killer sentimentale” (Luis Sepulveda)




