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Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind

Thought-provoking and eye-opening book about the origin, the evolution and destructive nature of homo sapiens. However there seems to be hope of improvement. Or the danger of spreading further to other planets.

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Rock Your Code: Defensive Programming for Microsoft .NET by David McCarter

Talking about Defensive Programming during times of Test Driven Development, Clean Code, Domain Driven Development and all other kinds of buzzwords seems a bit unusual. From his long-year experience David McCarter shares a collection of rules of thumb to write better, rock-solid code.

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Learn to Code in Swift: The new language of iOS Apps by Kevin McNeish

Only by looking at the table of content I knew that this is going to be a fun read. The book is actually structured like a set of full-day classes or better said a training workshop for beginners in Swift. It starts with the basic elements of Swift, then covers code workflow and finishes of with more advanced topics like closures and error handling.

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High Performance Responsive Design by Tom Barker

Although, as good as everyone working in the field of web sites or web application development is talking about Responsive Web Development (RWD) Tom Barker has a simple but nevertheless shocking statement: You're doing it wrong!

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Microsoft SharePoint 2013 Administration Inside Out

For a software development job I had to set up a Microsoft SharePoint 2013 test lab, and honestly without this book it wouldn't have been possible.

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Social eCommerce by Stephan Spencer, Jimmy Harding & Jennifer Sheahan

Although, using and running paid advertising services for some of my clients I still came across a big pile of improvements. The authors describe the benefits of shifting away from plain numbers in terms of search engine ranking towards conversions (and therefore earning money) very well.

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AngularJS by Brad Green and Shyam Seshadri - Some lack of quality

New year, new review...Thanks to O'Reilly blogger review programme I had a chance to put my hands on their title on AngularJS by Brad Green and Shyam Seshadri. This time, a quick

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The Superlative Stream by Kerry Nietz

Forced by the circumstances of his own liberation SandFly and HardCandy board the ultra-modern spaceship DarkTrench and continue their journey of enlightenment in the remote star system of Betelgeuse. Following their exploration of the superlative stream they are getting confronted with more than they expected to...

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A Star Curiously Singing by Kerry Nietz

The first-person writing style of Kerry really gets you more involved into the story. The happening of events feels more intensive and surprisingly refreshing.

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PHP Web Services by Lorna Jane Mitchell - Nice try

I was astonished that a small book like 'PHP Web Services' would be able to cover all the interesting topics about APIs and Web Services, independently whether they are written in PHP or not. And unfortunately, the title isn't able to stand up to the readers (or at least my) expectations.

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FoxTales: Behind the Scenes at Fox Software by Kerry Nietz

Flash backs from the past! It's truely amazing to discover that software development from freshman to senior and project management hasn't changed that much.

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The Niantic Project: Ingress by Felicia Hajra-Lee

Originally titled 'An Exotic Matter' Felicia Hajra-Lee got the offer to publish her novella under the title of 'The Niantic Project: Ingress'. Here is my review...