ChemaclassBook summaries and notes from my reading journey across software craftsmanship, psychology, philosophy, and personal development. Each entry includes key takeaways and my own reflections. If you're looking for your next book or want the essential ideas without the full read, start here.
How To Use What You Already Know To Make Money In The Market
America's most successful money manager tells how average investors can beat the pros by using what they know. According to Lynch, investment opportunities are everywhere.
An Amazing Way to Deal With Change In Your Work and In Your Life
This book presents a tale inside the main story that consists of 4 characters: two mice, Sniff and Scurry, and two little persons, Hem and Haw.
What the Rich Teach Their Kids about Money That the Poor and Middle Class Do Not!
Explodes the myth that you need to earn a high income to become rich.
Creating Reusable Software Components
Apply design principles to your classes, preparing them for reuse. You will use package design principles to create packages that are just right in terms of cohesion and coupling, and are user- and maintainer-friendly at the same time.
All animals are equal. But some animals are more equal than others.
Orwell's political allegory about a farmyard rebellion that descends into tyranny, exposing how power corrupts even the most idealistic revolutions.
Powerful Techniques for Creating Flexible, Readable, and Maintainable Object-Oriented Code in Any OO Language
Matthias Noback's practical guide to writing flexible, readable, and maintainable object-oriented code, with techniques applicable to any OO language from Python to PHP.
Domain-Driven Design Distilled brings DDD to life. Whether you're a developer, consultant, or customer, it will help you understand it, so you can benefit from its power.
The best guide that brings your coding skills a level up.
The best guide that brings your coding and architecture skills a level up. All the modern PHP features combined with the elegance of a well designed modular design.
Negotiating as if your life depended on it
From policing the rough streets of Kansas City, Missouri, to becoming the FBI's lead international kidnapping negotiator to teaching negotiation at leading universities, Chris Voss has tested the techniques in 'Never Split the Difference' across the full spectrum of human endeavor and proved their effectiveness.
The Art of Doing Twice the Work in Half the Time
Every organisation, whatever its size, constantly has to come to grips with delivering a product or service on time and on budget. Scrum shows you how. It explains how to define precisely what it is that you are seeking to achieve, how to set up the team to achieve it, and how to monitor progress until the project is successfully completed.
Seven Languages in Seven Weeks: A Pragmatic Guide to Learning Programming Languages
A hands-on tour of Clojure, Haskell, Io, Prolog, Scala, Erlang, and Ruby. Learn how each language thinks differently and broaden your perspective on programming.
The Call of Cthulu, the tale of a horrifying underwater monster coming to life and threatening mankind, spawning an entire mythology, with the power to strike terror into the hearts of even the Great Old Ones.
Lovecraft's foundational cosmic horror tale about the discovery of an ancient underwater entity whose awakening threatens all of humanity and sanity itself.
A novella about alienation, identity, and transformation
Kafka's iconic novella about alienation and identity. Gregor Samsa wakes as a monstrous insect and must confront his family's revulsion and his own fading humanity.
A society terrorised by a totalitarian ideology
One of Britain's most popular novels, George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four is set in a society terrorised by a totalitarian ideology propagated by The Party.
The art of the entrepreneur can be summed up in a single word: managing
Andy Grove's management classic from Intel, covering managerial leverage, meetings, decision-making, motivation, and how to maximize team output in technology organizations.
A Guide for Tech Leaders Navigating Growth and Change
Camille Fournier maps the career path from engineer to CTO, covering 1:1s, mentoring, team management, and the evolving responsibilities at each level of technical leadership.
Back to Basics
This book is about Agile. What it was, what it is, and what it will be. This is a back-to-basics talk that covers the history of Agile, what motivated it, and what has happened to it since.
Embrace Change
Extreme Programming (XP) is an agile software development framework that aims to produce higher quality software, and higher quality of life for the development team. XP is the most specific of the agile frameworks regarding appropriate engineering practices for software development.
Symfony 5: The Fast Track
Fabien Potencier's official guide to building web applications with Symfony 5, covering the framework from scratch to production deployment.
An Easy & Proven Way to Build Good Habits & Break Bad Ones
People think that when you want to change your life, you need to think big. James Clear has discovered another way. He knows that real change comes from the compound effect of hundreds of small decisions. He calls them atomic habits.