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I'm not sure but seems that the book Maven: The Definitive Guide sold by O'Reilly is available for free at the authors site (the PDF version only, of course hehe). Could be the last beta version of it but even though worth a look :)
[Update] According to Brian Fox comment on my last post, this book is the very Maven documentation improvement made by the Sonatype team to the Maven community :)
Finally, the Internet (Google Book Search) offers the so promised on line libraries.
A special mention to the section "Places mentioned in this book" for example in the Moby Dick book (using google maps, of course). It's impressive, you click on the place and it says in which page the place was mentioned in the book.
Now when you search you'll get both digitized book results as well as records for millions of other books that still just exist in the analog world.Book Search becomes more comprehensive:
When you view these new added book records, you can often read reviews, a summary, or see what other people had to say about the book around the web. Since these books haven't been digitally indexed yet, you can't preview the text online, but if you've discovered something great, we offer links to buy the book or find it in a library near you.I remember in the early days of the WWW the promise of Museums, Libraries and all human knowledge equally distributed to the W. Of course that was romantic marketing only, the nations will always compete and hide the true knowledge each one has, but now at least inoffensive books can be easily searched =)
A special mention to the section "Places mentioned in this book" for example in the Moby Dick book (using google maps, of course). It's impressive, you click on the place and it says in which page the place was mentioned in the book.
For those trying to get into the world of Object Oriented modeling I strongly recommend the reading of the seventh chapter
I strongly recommend this reading for OO beginners and evangelists.
Designing Classes of the book Objects First with Java, indicated by my coworker Maria Cristina.in chapter 7, we discuss more formally the issues of dividing a problem domain into classes for implementation. we introduce issues of designing classes well, including concepts such as responsibility-driven design, coupling, cohesion, and refactoring. an interactive, text-based, adventure game (world of zuul) is used for this discussion. we go through several iterations of improving the internal class structure of the game and extending its functionality, and end with a long list of proposals for extensions that may be done as student projects.Even if you are experienced software developer and face the problem of justifing the use of OO principles to your coworkers this chapter and its examples are a good source of inspiration and arguments. I must say that it uses a simple Text RPG Game to show good modeling of maintainable code, nevertheless those are techniques that will improve your real life systems.
I strongly recommend this reading for OO beginners and evangelists.
O´Reilly is publishing a new book entitled 'Prefactoring' by Ken Pugh.
"In his new book, Prefactoring (O'Reilly, US $29.95), author Ken Pugh shares practices and guidelines derived from his own experiences and those of many other developers. These guidelines make explicit the considerations that good developers implicitly make in their designs. "Take these guidelines as a starting point to developing your own," Pugh advises readers. "Many of the guidelines explored in the book relate to basic design principles, but they are expressed in different fashions. Other guidelines revolve around the concepts of Extreme Abstraction, Extreme Separation, and Extreme Readability."
Seems to be a architectural software design book that has nothing related to refactoring, but still seems interesting.
"In his new book, Prefactoring (O'Reilly, US $29.95), author Ken Pugh shares practices and guidelines derived from his own experiences and those of many other developers. These guidelines make explicit the considerations that good developers implicitly make in their designs. "Take these guidelines as a starting point to developing your own," Pugh advises readers. "Many of the guidelines explored in the book relate to basic design principles, but they are expressed in different fashions. Other guidelines revolve around the concepts of Extreme Abstraction, Extreme Separation, and Extreme Readability."
Seems to be a architectural software design book that has nothing related to refactoring, but still seems interesting.
I was wandering in a used books shop when I found a little bookshelf of
Computer Science books. One book written in brazilian portuguese came
to my attention with a title that could be translated to 'Modeling and
Object Based Design'.
I´ve started reading the back-cover, and it said the authors were sugesting a new process and notation of object oriented software design, the first thing strange, I never heard of brazilian authors in this matter.
I´ve look some pages and saw a very familiar graphical notation, more specific James Rumbaugh notation, and thought ' This is not new, just a copy o J.Rumbaugh notation'.
Looking what was clearly a class diagram I thought again: 'This is no copy o J.Rumbaugh notation, this IS his notation', second thing strange.
I´ve saw tips of how implement OO design in non OO languages as also OO languages like C++ and Smalltalk (which made me think again).
I´ve finally went to the table of contents and saw very interesting subjects and wandered who in the end were its authors? And to my surprise in the cover I found the name James Rumbaugh among others, hehehe.
Went to see the original title and it was the good old 'Object Oriented Modeling and Design', that shameful until now I didn´t started reading. Well, I had to buy the book (as it was used it was really cheap) and this is finally changing now :)
I´ve started reading the back-cover, and it said the authors were sugesting a new process and notation of object oriented software design, the first thing strange, I never heard of brazilian authors in this matter.
I´ve look some pages and saw a very familiar graphical notation, more specific James Rumbaugh notation, and thought ' This is not new, just a copy o J.Rumbaugh notation'.
Looking what was clearly a class diagram I thought again: 'This is no copy o J.Rumbaugh notation, this IS his notation', second thing strange.
I´ve saw tips of how implement OO design in non OO languages as also OO languages like C++ and Smalltalk (which made me think again).
I´ve finally went to the table of contents and saw very interesting subjects and wandered who in the end were its authors? And to my surprise in the cover I found the name James Rumbaugh among others, hehehe.
Went to see the original title and it was the good old 'Object Oriented Modeling and Design', that shameful until now I didn´t started reading. Well, I had to buy the book (as it was used it was really cheap) and this is finally changing now :)
