sandi's recommended references

sandibooks.txt

(I've amended it to use Amazon.ca)

Things to Read:
  Refactoring
    Martin Fowler: Refactoring, Improving the Design of Existing Code
      https://www.amazon.ca/Refactoring-Improving-Existing-Addison-Wesley-Technology-ebook/dp/B007WTFWJ6

    Jay Fields: Refactoring, Ruby Edition
      https://www.amazon.ca/Refactoring-Ruby-Addison-Wesley-Professional-ebook/dp/B002TIOYWG/

    Joshua Kerievsky: Refactoring to Patterns
      https://www.amazon.ca/Refactoring-Patterns-Addison-Wesley-Signature-Fowler-ebook/dp/B001TKD4RQ

  Testing
    Michael Feathers: Working Effectively With Legacy Code
      https://www.amazon.ca/Working-Effectively-Legacy-Michael-Feathers/dp/0131177052/


  Patterns
    Gamma, Helm, Johnsom, Vlissides (Gang of Four): Design Patterns,
    Elements of Reusable Object-Oriented Software
      http://www.amazon.ca/Design-Patterns-Elements-Reusable-Object-Oriented/dp/0201633612
      Browse the entire book

    Eric Freeman, Bates, Sierra: Head First Design Patterns
      http://www.amazon.ca/Head-First-Design-Patterns-Freeman/dp/0596007124
      (But only if you can stand the 'Head First' style)


  Thinking about objects:
    Sandi Metz: Practical Object-Oriented Design
      http://www.amazon.ca/Practical-Object-Oriented-Design-Ruby-Addison-Wesley/dp/0321721330

    Rebecca Wirfs-Brock, Wilkerson, Wiener: Designing Object-Oriented Software
      http://www.amazon.ca/Designing-Object-Oriented-Software-Rebecca-Wirfs-Brock/dp/0136298257
      http://www.wirfs-brock.com/PDFs/Characterizing%20Classes.pdf

    Matt Weisfeld, The Object-Oriented Thought Process
      http://www.amazon.ca/Object-Oriented-Thought-Process-Developers-Library/dp/0321861272

    Freeman and Pryce: Growing Object-Oriented Software, Guided by Tests (GOOS)
      http://www.amazon.ca/Growing-Object-Oriented-Software-Guided-Tests/dp/0321503627

    Eric Evans: Domain Driven Design
      http://www.amazon.ca/Domain-Driven-Design-Tackling-Complexity-Software/dp/0321125215

    Domain Driven Design Quickly (pdf)
      http://www.infoq.com/minibooks/domain-driven-design-quickly

    Vaughn Vernon: Implementing Domain Driven Design
      http://www.amazon.ca/Implementing-Domain-Driven-Design-Vaughn-Vernon/dp/0321834577

    David West: Object Thinking
      https://www.amazon.ca/Object-Thinking-Developer-Reference-David/dp/0735619654


Things to Watch:
  Design
    http://bit.ly/sandi_metz_solid
    http://bit.ly/sandi_metz_less_path_to_better_design
    http://bit.ly/sandi_metz_make_a_mess
    http://bit.ly/sandi_metz_nothing_is_something
    http://bit.ly/gary_bernhardt_boundaries
    http://bit.ly/peter_harkins_what_comes_after_mvc

  Refactoring
    http://bit.ly/neal_ford_rampant_emergence
    http://bit.ly/katrina_owen_therapeutic_refactoring
    http://bit.ly/ben_orenstein_refactoring

  Testing
    http://bit.ly/sandi_metz_magic_tricks_of_testing
    http://bit.ly/gregory_moeck_why_you_dont_get_mocks
    http://bit.ly/justin_searls_budgeting_reality
    http://bit.ly/justin_searls_to_mock_or_not
    http://bit.ly/michael_feathers_testing_revisted
    http://bit.ly/freeman_pryce_mock_roles_talk

  Pointy Headed
    http://bit.ly/rich_hickey_simple_made_easy
    https://codon.com/a-lever-for-the-mind

  Most Fun Ever
    Guy Steele: Growing A Language
      https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ahvzDzKdB0

  Curated List of Talks (includes some of the above)
    http://bit.ly/jack_hsu_software_development_talks_list

  Blog posts:
  General:
    http://www.sandimetz.com/blog/
    http://blog.codeclimate.com/blog/2012/10/17/7-ways-to-decompose-fat-activerecord-models/
    http://blog.codeclimate.com/blog/2012/11/14/why-ruby-class-methods-resist-refactoring/

  Dependency Inversion:
    http://abernardes.github.io/2014/11/04/inverting-dependencies.html

  Transformation Priority Premise
    http://blog.8thlight.com/uncle-bob/2013/05/27/TheTransformationPriorityPremise.html

  Static Typing
    http://blog.cleancoder.com/uncle-bob/2017/01/13/TypesAndTests.html