I have decided to make a lofty goal for myself. I would like to begin reading one non-fiction book a month, mostly technical. There are some challenges to pulling this off, such as, balancing family and work with reading. In addition, I have never been the fastest reader. I take my time and mull over things as I read. Furthermore, I have several side projects going on right now that I really want to finish. Also, I have fallen behind on my MSDN magazine reading; so I need to kick that up as well. Despite all of this, here is my desired schedule for the next few months:
I have worked in C# for quite some time now, and I have come to the realization that you only get a limited view of the language based upon the projects you are coding on. In other words, there is a great deal of the language that I am missing out on, or could use refreshers on. I'm looking forward to this read as a way to dive deeper into the C# language. 600+ pages are going to make this a challenge for me to fit into 1 month.
This one is a classic, and believe it or not, I have never actually read it. My undergrad program did not use this book as many other computer science programs do. Most design patterns are commonsense to a seasoned programmer, none-the-less, I still think it will be helpful to give the book a read. 350+ pages.
This one I am hoping will be a quick once-over read just to let me know what is in the book so that I can later use it for reference. There are several items in the book that get deep into debugging that will certainly come in handy every once in a while. I would like to know the more advanced techniques that are out there, so that I can employ them as needed. 400+ pages, but I doubt I'll give it as thorough of a read as the CLR book.
As I find more books to put on my schedule I will update this post. Here's for hoping!