https://www.developerfusion.com/t/agile/books/view/recommended/ 2011-02-08T19:57:00.00Z http://www.developerfusion.com/book/94236/agile-web-development-with-rails/ 2011-02-01T13:50:00.00Z

Ruby on Rails helps you produce high-quality, beautiful-looking web applications quickly. You concentrate on creating the application, and Rails takes care of the details.Tens of thousands of developers have used this award-winning book to learn Rails. It's a broad, far-reaching tutorial and reference that's recommended by the Rails core team. If you're new to Rails, you'll get step-by-step guidance.

James Crowley http://www.developerfusion.com/book/94612/agile-project-management-with-scrum-microsoft-professional/ 2011-02-08T19:57:00.00Z

Apply the principles of Scrum, one of the most popular agile programming methods, to software project management—and focus your team on delivering real business value. Author Ken Schwaber, a leader in the agile process movement and a co-creator of Scrum, brings his vast expertise to helping you guide the product and software development process more effectively and efficiently.

James Crowley http://www.developerfusion.com/book/85462/agile-web-application-development-with-yii-11-and-php5/ 2010-08-11T00:00:00.00Z

Fast-track your Web application development by harnessing the power of the Yii PHP frameworkOverview of Agile Web Application Development with Yii1.1 and PHP5 *A step-by-step guide to creating a modern, sophisticated web application using an incremental and iterative approach to software development *Build a real-world, user-based, database-driven project task management application using the Yii development framework

James Crowley http://www.developerfusion.com/book/93283/unix-and-linux-system-administration-handbook-4th-edition/ 2011-01-31T15:26:00.00Z

“As an author, editor, and publisher, I never paid much attention to the competition–except in a few cases. This is one of those cases. The UNIX System Administration Handbook is one of the few books we ever measured ourselves against.”–From the Foreword by Tim O’Reilly, founder of O’Reilly Media“This book is fun and functional as a desktop reference. If you use UNIX and Linux systems, you need this book in your short-reach library.

James Crowley http://www.developerfusion.com/book/78889/project-management-the-agile-way-making-it-work-in-the-enterprise/ 2010-01-19T00:00:00.00Z

Project Management the Agile Way is for experienced project managers, system engineers, architects, and business analysts who are comfortable in traditional methods of project management, but now need to understand how to make agile work effectively in the enterprise. This book presents practical, day-to-day tips and application advice for how to harmonize agile methods with mainstream project processes and how to integrate these practices with other methodologies used in the business.

James Crowley http://www.developerfusion.com/book/75591/succeeding-with-agile-software-development-using-scrum/ 2009-11-05T00:00:00.00Z

Proven, 100% Practical Guidance for Making Scrum and Agile Work in Any OrganizationThis is the definitive, realistic, actionable guide to starting fast with Scrum and agile–and then succeeding over the long haul. Leading agile consultant and practitioner Mike Cohn presents detailed recommendations, powerful tips, and real-world case studies drawn from his unparalleled experience helping hundreds of software organizations make Scrum and agile work.

James Crowley http://www.developerfusion.com/book/60495/head-first-pmp-a-brainfriendly-guide-to-passing-the-project-management-professional-exam/ 2009-08-04T00:00:00.00Z

Learn the latest principles and certification objectives in The PMBOK Guide, Fourth Edition, in a unique and inspiring way with Head First PMP . The second edition of this book helps you prepare for the PMP certification exam using a visually rich format designed for the way your brain works. You'll find a full-length sample exam included inside the book.More than just proof of passing a test, a PMP certification means that you have the knowledge to solve most common project problems.

James Crowley http://www.developerfusion.com/book/13475/agile-web-development-with-rails-third-edition/ 2009-03-28T00:00:00.00Z

You want to write professional-grade applications: Rails is a full-stack, open-source web framework, with integrated support for unit, functional, and integration testing. It enforces good design principles, consistency of code across your team (and across your organization), and proper release management. But Rails is more than a set of best practices. Rails makes it both fun and easy to turn out very cool web applications. Need Ajax support, so your web applications are highly interactive?

James Crowley http://www.developerfusion.com/book/60659/97-things-every-software-architect-should-know/ 2009-02-13T00:00:00.00Z

In this truly unique technical book, today's leading software architects present valuable principles on key development issues that go way beyond technology. More than four dozen architects -- including Neal Ford, Michael Nygard, and Bill de hOra -- offer advice for communicating with stakeholders, eliminating complexity, empowering developers, and many more practical lessons they've learned from years of experience. Among the 97 principles in this book, you'll find useful advice such as:

James Crowley http://www.developerfusion.com/book/43759/programming-entity-framework/ 2009-02-12T00:00:00.00Z

Programming Entity Framework is a thorough introduction to Microsoft's new core framework for modeling and interacting with data in .NET applications. This book not only gives experienced developers a hands-on tour of the Entity Framework and explains its use in a variety of applications, it also provides a deep understanding of its architecture and APIs. From the Entity Data Model (EDM) and Object Services to EntityClient and the Metadata Workspace, Programming Entity Framework covers it all.

James Crowley