Agile Programming

I don’t know about you, but it seems like there’s always a stack of books on my desk or nightstand that I’m just not getting to. And given the rise in agile’s popularity, there are too many books on agile and development, in general, for me to keep up with. So when I saw this very short list by Meera Subbarao of the five best books she read last year (http://agile.dzone.com/articles/the-top-5-books-i-read-2008), it seemed like a tailor-made cheat sheet. Here’s her top five:

• Clean Code: A Handbook of Agile Software Craftsmanship by Robert C. Martin
• Effective Java, Second Edition by Joshua Bloch
• The ThoughtWorks Anthology by ThoughtWorks
• Java Power Tools by John F. Smart
• Groovy Recipes: Greasing the Wheels of Java by Scott Davis