Some New Books 
As many of my friends and family know, I have a bit of a problem. When it comes to my appetite for books, my eyes are a bit bigger than my stomach, so to speak. Considering that I'm currently in the middle of a handful of books, I may have gotten a little carried away with my last visit to Amazon.com. I frequently get questions about what I read and where I get most of the data that I ramble about regarding software, business, and other matters that are pontification friendly. In addition to 'blogs and websites, the good old-fashioned
codex still plays a major part in my knowledge intake. So for anyone interested, and because I still have that freshly-opened-Amazon-box excitement, here is a rundown of my newest shelfware.
It is interesting to watch your professional interests change over time. I was chatting with a colleague this evening and he remarked "I'm really surprised at how I'm so less in "bits and bolts" of languages compared to a few years ago… the key is really about the people and the how they do it… not so much what they do it with..." I agree and have observed the same shift in my own interests. Out of the above ten books only one is related to technology (the Groovy language). Of course, to be fair, in the last year I have also picked up some Ruby, Lisp, JSF, Hibernate, and data warehousing books. So I guess I haven't really slowed my technical subject matter intake as much as increased the non-technical subject matter. Nevertheless, a few years ago you wouldn't have caught me reading The Fifth Discipline or a book on Multisourcing.
