 | Domain-driven Design: Tackling Complexity in the Heart of Software by Eric Evans
Buy new: £18.99 / Used from: £12.85 Hugely useful in thinking about the real problems you face
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 | Working Effectively with Legacy Code (Robert C Martin) by Michael Feathers
Buy new: £17.96 / Used from: £16.00 Revelatory if you've been working with a tired old ball of spaghetti for years
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 | Effective Java: Second Edition by Joshua Bloch
Buy new: £17.99 / Used from: £16.99 Old habits die hard: make sure your old habits are good ones
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 | Java Puzzlers: Traps, Pitfalls, and Corner Cases by Joshua Bloch
Buy new: £14.48 / Used from: £9.00 Not going to fix your codebase, but some light relief might be handy
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 | Programming Ruby: The Pragmatic Programmer's Guide, Second Edition by Dave Thomas
Buy new: £20.61 / Used from: £4.97 Go and do something completely different. When you're done, you see a host of solutions (and problems) you never had before...
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 | The Cathedral & the Bazaar by Eric Raymond
Buy new: £7.15 / Used from: £3.95 If the code's broken, maybe some bigger things are too. Think about the broadest context for your problems and fixes...
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 | Enterprise SOA Adoption Strategies by Steve, Jones
Buy new: £19.13 / Used from: £20.99 Solid thinking on broad aspects of architecture
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 | Head First Design Patterns by Eric Freeman
Buy new: £19.82 / Used from: £17.00 You need to bring the rest of the team with you too... patterns can give you acceleration through shared language
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 | Head First Object-Oriented Analysis and Design: A Brain Friendly Guide to OOA&D by Brett McLaughlin
Buy new: £22.02 / Used from: £21.49 ... and some people find OOAD a challenge, so help them out.
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 | Spring in Action by Craig Walls
Buy new: £21.23 / Used from: £21.21 Now look at how you implement, and what you can use to get there quicker
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 | J2EE Development Without EJB, Expert One-on-One by Rod Johnson
Buy new: £15.73 / Used from: £5.40 Just make sure you've got the basic principles too.
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 | Pro Spring: From Professional to Expert (Expert's Voice in Java) by Rob; Machacek, Jan Harrop
Buy new: £31.49 / Used from: £4.55 And borrow some of Rob's enthusiasm before tackling your managers!
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