ReadWatch.md

Things to Read:

• Refactoring

  • Martin Fowler: Refactoring, Improving the Design of Existing Code
  • Jay Fields: Refactoring, Ruby Edition
  • Joshua Kerievsky: Refactoring to Patterns

• Testing

  • Michael Feathers: Working Effectively With Legacy Code
  • David Chelimsky: The RSpec Book
  • xUnit Test Patterns

• Patterns

  • Gamma, Helm, Johnsom, Vlissides (Gang of Four): Design Patterns, Elements of Reusable Object-Oriented Software (Browse the entire book)
  • Eric Freeman, Bates, Sierra: Head First Design Patterns (But only if you can stand the 'Head First' style)
  • Robert Martin: Clean Code
  • Robert Martin: Clean Architecture
  • Design Patterns

• Thinking about objects and Design

  • Rebecca Wirfs-Brock, Wilkerson, Wiener: Designing Object-Oriented Software(AND)
  • Matt Weisfeld, The Object-Oriented Thought Process
  • Freeman and Pryce: Growing Object-Oriented Software, Guided by Tests (GOOS)
  • Eric Evans: Domain Driven Design
  • Sandi Metz: Practical Object-Oriented Design
  • Domain Driven Design Quickly (pdf)
  • Vaughn Vernon: Implementing Domain Driven Design
  • David West: Object Thinking

• Rails

  • Paul Dix: Service-Oriented Design with Ruby and Rails
  • Chad Pytel: Rails AntiPatterns
  • http://railsoopbook.com/
  • Domain Driven Rails

• Production Engineering

  • The Site Reliability Workbook: Practical Ways to Implement SRE
  • Systems Performance: Enterprise and the Cloud
  • Advanced Programming in Unix Environment
  • The DevOps Handbook

• FrontEnd

  • Fullstack Vue: The Complete Guide to Vue.js
  • CSS Secrets: Better Solutions to Everyday Web Design Problems
  • High Performance Browser Networking

• Data

  • High Performance MySQL
  • Designing Data-Intensive Applications
  • Learning Spark: Lightning-Fast Big Data Analysis
  • Weapons of Math Destruction

• Leadership

  • Mythical Man Month
  • The Phoenix Project
  • The Manager's Path: A Guide for Tech Leaders Navigating Growth and Change
  • Escaping the Build Trap: How Effective Product Management Creates Real Value

• Mindset

  • The Pragmatic Programmer
  • Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs
  • Programming Pearls

• General

  • Code Complete 2
  • Writing An Interpreter In Go

• Ruby

  • David A. Black: The Well-Grounded Rubyist
  • Pat Shaughnessy: Ruby Under a Microscope
  • Paolo Perrotta: Metaprogramming Ruby 2
  • Russ Olsen: Eloquent Ruby

Things to Watch:

• Design

  • SOLID Object-Oriented Design by Sandi Metz
  • Less - The Path to Better Design by Sandi Metz
  • Go Ahead, Make a Mess by Sandi Metz
  • Boundaries by Gary Bernhardt
  • Nothing is Something by Sandi Metz
  • What Comes After MVC by Peter Harkins

• Refactoring

  • Lessons Learned from 4 Years of Aggressive Change with Neal Ford
  • Therapeutic Refactoring by Katrina Owen
  • Refactoring from Good to Great by Ben Orenstein
  • Refactoring for Confident Code

• Testing

  • http://bit.ly/sandi_metz_magic_tricks_of_testing
  • Why You Don't Get Mock Objects by Gregory Moeck
  • How to Stop Hating your Test Suite
  • To Mock or Not to Mock
  • 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://rubyblog.pro/2017/07/solid-dependency-inversion-principle

• 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

High-level guide to building good software (slightly old, but still good):
The Pragmatic Programmer

Everything about good code (very long, but worth it):
Code Complete 2

Blog Posts

Bob Martin - Clean Architecture

Watch

Refactoring for Confident Code