This is a list of both what I’ve read recently and what’s on the queue. As I finish each book I like to write up a little something about it.

Recently Finished

• RESTful Web Services—Leonard Richardson & Sam Ruby
• Don’t Make Me Think—Steve Krug
• Agile Retrospectives—Esther Derby and Diana Larsen
• Information Architecture for the World Wide Web—Peter Morville & Louis Rosefeld
• Designing The Moment/Designing The Obvious—Robert Hoekman, Jr.
• About Face 3—Alan Cooper, Robert Reimann and David Cronin
  

Currently Reading

Programming Collective Intelligence
Toby Segaran

I saw this book posted on O’Reilly’s Radar blog a couple of months ago. As soon as I read the post I pre-ordered the book and eagerly awaited its arrival. I’ve been slowly working through the book, porting the example Python code to Ruby as a way of getting a “hands-on” feel for the information in the book. This book feels like it has the potential to go in personal Geek Book Hall of Fame.

Cocoa Programming for Mac OS X

Aaron Hillegass

I’ve been a “web guy” for the bulk of my career, but I’ve always had fun peeking over the fence to see how the rich-GUI folks live. Once I switched over to a Mac I was intrigued with how Mac applications are put together. I had heard such great things about this book that I figured I’d better look into what all the hub-bub was about. I’m about half-way through and it and I can honestly say that it has been an absolute joy to read. I look forward to each new chapter.

In the Hole

The order of these books gets shuffled around a bit as my priorities change:

• Designing Interactions—Bill Moggridge
• Code 2.0—Lawrence Lessig
• Concurrent Programming in Java (2nd Ed.)—Doug Lea
• Building Scalable Web Sites—Cal Henderson
• Beautiful Evidence, Visual Explanations, Evisioning Information—Edward Tufte
• Compilers—Aho, Lam, Sethi & Ullman
• Programming Erlang—Joe Armstrong