Monday, February 26, 2007

New Books

It has been a while since I read a book. I tried my best to get an Indian edition of the Java Concurrency in Practice by Brian Goetz but couldn't get it. The Original print is atleast 4X times the price my budget for the book. Over the weekend, I purchased three books - Head First OOAD, Ruby Cookbook and Beginning Ruby on Rails.

Being a big fan of the Head First series, I started out with OOAD book. This is a good book even for the seasoned professionals. Keep in mind this is NOT a reference book. Brett, Gary and David have done an excellent work capturing all the required of OOAD in a pleasure to read book.

Ruby Cookbook presents nice recipes with Ruby. Very well presented. It is good point to start picking up Ruby.

As far Rails, am still a novice. The next month my technical arsenal is going to get enriched with Ruby and Rails :-)