By Ben | Published:
September 18, 2007
I blogged before about my initial impressions of Natural Capitalism. I’ve finally completed the book and I can highly recommend purchasing a copy or downloading it.
If you want a preview of the (very dense) book, take a look at A Roadmap for Natural Capitalism article that was published in Harvard Business Review.
Also posted in business, environment |
By Ben | Published:
August 31, 2007
I usually don’t rave about books until after I finish reading them. I’m going to make an exception because I just completed reading two great chapters that are already worth telling everyone that this is shaping up to be a wonderful read.
The book I’m referring to is an older book (1999) called Natural Capitalism. [...]
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By Ben | Published:
April 16, 2007
Over the weekend, I read Collaboration Explained by Jean Tabaka. This is one of the best books that I’ve read in a really long time. The book is geared towards the facilitation of agile software teams.
The book includes a wealth of information on how to facilitate, prepare, and follow-up on many different types of collaborative [...]
By Ben | Published:
February 25, 2007
I’ve played around a bit with Ruby and Rails over the past couple of years, but I haven’t done any significant programming in either. After attending CodeMash and sitting in on a few great sessions around both Ruby and Rails, I decided to start using Ruby as my primary scripting language and I made [...]
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By Ben | Published:
January 19, 2007
The time has finally come for the official release and availability of Windows Developer Power Tools. I briefly posted about the book before, but it was during the editing process and before the release of the book. I received my copy of the book about a week ago and it feels great to see everything [...]
By Ben | Published:
August 22, 2006
Jim has posted a list of tools that are available in the Windows Developer Power Tools book. That’s a lot of tools.
Also posted in devtools |
By Ben | Published:
July 28, 2006
Windows Developer Power Tools is up on Amazon and ready for pre-orders. The book hasn’t been released yet (it’s currently slated for November 1st), but it can be pre-ordered. You can find some sample chapters on Jim’s page for the book. The book was written by James Avery and Jim Holmes with a variety of [...]
Also posted in devtools |
By Ben | Published:
February 1, 2006
I recently completed reading “The World Is Flat” by Thomas Friedman. There are hundreds of great insights spread throughout the book and I can highly recommend the book to anyone that is interested in future of globalization and the dynamics that play into the equation.
The book focuses on a ton of factors including open source, [...]
Also posted in globalization |
By Ben | Published:
November 13, 2005
I’m eagerly awaiting Getting Real. The crew at 37Signals has been doing a great job lately and I have to say that I love their viewpoints, their simplicity, and the effectiveness of their designs. Hopefully I won’t have to wait too much longer, I’m dying to hear what they have to say and how it [...]
