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UML Distilled is a short, very approachable introduction to UML, by Martin Fowler and Kendall Scott.

Martin Fowler's Refactoring: Improving the Design of Existing Code is the cannonical book on refactoring. Unfortunately, it's only available in hardback.

Alistair Cockburn's Agile Software Development is a project leader-level introduction to Agile methods, and includes a great discussion of information flow within projects. If you liked Peopleware, you'll love this book.

You may have gotten to a point in your career where you recognized that a great grip on technology isn't sufficient for succeeding in technology. Consider Jerry Weinberg's Becoming a Technical Leader, which lays out several good technology-independent strategies for being successful.

For technology-dependent specifics, check out the articles on the O'Reilly site. Onlamp, another O'Reilly site, has many good articles on the latest and greatest Open Source stuff.

In reply to Re: OT: Becoming a Modern Software Engineer by dws
in thread OT: Becoming a Modern Software Engineer by Wally Hartshorn

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