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Steven Feuerstein
Steven Feuerstein is the author or coauthor of Oracle PL/SQL Programming, Oracle PL/SQL Best Practices, Oracle PL/SQL for DBAs, Oracle PL/SQL Developer's Workbook, Oracle Built-in Packages, and several pocket reference books (all from O'Reilly Media). Steven has been developing software since 1980, spent five years with Oracle (1987-1992), and serves as a Senior Technology Advisor to Quest Software. His products include utPLSQL (an open source unit testing framework for PL/SQL) and Qnxo (active mentoring software that helps to generate, reuse, and test code, www.qnxo.com). He has won numerous awards for his writing and trainings, offers a PL/SQL portal at www.oracleplsqlprogramming.com. He lives in Chicago with his wife, Veva, and three cats. Two sons, Eli and Chris, orbit nearby.
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 The Timeless Way of Building
by Christopher Alexander
Oxford University Press
January 1979
A beautiful, simultaneously deeply spiritual and pragmatic book on architecture that changed the way many developers approach writing software. It also changed the way I look at and relate to the world around me. If you only pick one book from this list to read, A Timeless Way of Building would be my urgent recommendation.
 Peopleware: Productive Projects and Teams
by Tom Demarco and Timothy Lister
ISBN 0932633439
Dorset House Publishing Company
February 1999
A classic and timeless text that emphasizes the obvious, but too-often-ignored reality that people write software. Good software managers have to pay attention to that "human element" or it will be impossible to procedure quality software.
Code Complete
by Steve McConnell
ISBN 0735619670
Microsoft Press
June 2004
Another classic programming book covering many aspects of code construction. It's packed full of extremely useful tips -- and a general reminder that good advice from a decade past is still good advice.
 Extreme Programming Explained: Embrace Change
by Kent Beck
ISBN 0321278658
Addison-Wesley
November 2004
An excellent introduction to Extreme Programming, this book changed in some fundamental ways the approach I take to building software. Even if you doubt you will ever work on an XP project, you owe it to yourself to read through this thin book (it is, after all, a lightweight methodology).
Code and Other Laws of Cyberspace
by Lawrence Lessig
ISBN 0465039138
June 2000
A ground-breaking book that recasts the role of software developers as law-writers and raises some very troubling questions about the direction in which the Internet (and the software that makes it possible) is heading -- namely, locked-down by corporations in order to maximize profits from a new medium (warning: that is a crude simplification of Lessig's argument).
The Cult of Information
by Theodore Roszak
ISBN 0520085841
University of California Press
April 1994
A thought-provoking analysis of some of the down-sides of our information age. Most important lesson learned: keep children away from computers for as long as possible. You don't want to force them to think like machines (procedurally) any earlier than necessary!
Patterns of Software: Tales from the Software Community
by Richard P. Gabriel
ISBN 0195121236
Oxford University Press
May 1998
A book that wrestles with the realities and problems with code reuse and design patterns. I don't necessarily agree or like all of his conclusions, but Gabriel certainly got me thinking.
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