Category Archives: Books

[Book Review] Refactoring: Improving the Design of Existing Code

Whether you’re working on an old codebase or a three-month old project, you most likely found yourself in a situation where you found the codebase confusing and hard to follow. You probably found code smells, duplications and massive classes. You knew you had to refactor it. There’s one book that… Read more »

[Book Review] App Architecture: iOS Application Design Patterns in Swift

I read a nice little book recently about architectural design patterns on iOS. The book was written by the well-known trio behind the objc.io website; Florian, Matt and Chris. It’s called App Architecture: iOS Application Design Patterns in Swift. We’ll do a quick review of the book in this article…. Read more »

Book Review | Soft Skills: The software developer’s life manual

I came across this book on Amazon by accident: Soft Skills: The software developer’s life manual by John Sonmez. I was looking for some great new books to read, and this book kept popping out in my search results, in my recommended books, everywhere. What got my attention was the… Read more »

Course Review: How to Create a Blog That Boosts Your Software Development Career

I’ve read a great book recently, Soft Skills: The software developer’s life manual by John Sonmez. I borrowed that book to a friend, and somehow he stumbled on a blog course that covers some of the topics covered in the book. Since I enjoyed the book, I decided to give it… Read more »