Knowing Me, Knowing You, part 2
12 comments Latest by Robert Treat Wed, 30 Aug 2006 19:47:23 GMT
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. :-)
Not all reference material, I know, but two of them are for a current project.
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
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
seriously?
Um, who is that a picture of? Kind of looks like Commander Data goes Leisure Suit Larry.
Joe,
It’s Alan Partridge… who is a fictional character from a BBC show in the UK. Google him. :-)
Aha! Alan Partridge, possibly one of my more favourite comedians of the awkward comedy style :)
At this very minute I could grab
On the shelf just to the left of my head, you can find copies of:
Essential Actionscript 2.0 Linux in a Nutshell Refactoring – Fowler Mastering CSS
A different kind of geeky. ;-)
Dave.
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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 :-)