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		<title>Reading:What should I Do with My Life?</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Feb 2010 17:03:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Abner</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The book The Whole New Mind by Daniel Pink gave me a long list of new books to read and one of them was What Should I Do with My Life by Po Bronson. The title is quite impressive, isn&#8217;t it? What kind of information this book can have? was my first question and after reading [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://www.modlost.net/home/wp-content/uploads/2010/02/what-should-i-do-with-my-life.jpg"><img class="alignright" style="margin-bottom: 10px;" title="what-should-i-do-with-my-life" src="http://www.modlost.net/home/wp-content/uploads/2010/02/what-should-i-do-with-my-life-182x300.jpg" alt="" width="182" height="300" /></a>The book <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Whole-New-Mind-Right-Brainers-Future/dp/1594481717/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&amp;s=books&amp;qid=1266596384&amp;sr=8-1" target="_blank">The Whole New Mind by Daniel Pink</a> gave me a long list of new books to read and one of them was <a href="http://www.amazon.com/What-Should-Do-My-Life/dp/0345485920/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&amp;s=books&amp;qid=1266597230&amp;sr=8-1" target="_blank">What Should I Do with My Life by Po Bronson</a>. The title is quite impressive, isn&#8217;t it? What kind of information this book can have? was my first question and after reading more about the author and the book itself I&#8217;ve found that it&#8217;s a list of experiences of different people who answers that question.</p>
<p>From time to time, we ask ourselves if we feel good doing what we&#8217;re doing and I know that it&#8217;s quite complicated to answer when you feel comfortable with the daily routine (sleep -&gt; work -&gt; go out with friends/partner/wife -&gt; go home -&gt; sleep). How our lives can change if we do something that we love and do with passion? I believe that it will change dramatically.</p>
<p>Over all my professional work in software development, I saw a few programmers/project managers/software architects/software testers/etc. that work with passion and you can do great things with them but it&#8217;s quite complicated to do anything if you don&#8217;t do it with passion.</p>
<p>I love my career but sometimes you fall in the routine and it gets boring. This kind of books are really good pulling you forward and I really recommend you this book if you want to think about what should you do with your life.</p>
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		<title>Los libros que más me han influenciado</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 22 Jan 2010 22:00:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Abner</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Acabo de terminar de leer por segunda vez Pragmatic Thinking &#38; Learning uno de los libros más impactantes que he leido. Pensando sobre este libro me dí cuenta que nunca escribí un post sobre la lista &#8211; de la cual siempre hablo &#8211; de libros que me han influenciado y/o cambiado mi forma de ver el [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Acabo de terminar de leer por segunda vez <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Pragmatic-Thinking-Learning-Refactor-Programmers/dp/1934356050" target="_blank">Pragmatic Thinking &amp; Learning</a> uno de los libros más impactantes que he leido. Pensando sobre este libro me dí cuenta que nunca escribí un post sobre la lista &#8211; de la cual siempre hablo &#8211; de libros que me han influenciado y/o cambiado mi forma de ver el mundo, la programación, etc.</p>
<p>Por eso aquí les comparto solo un pequeño resumen ya que cada uno de estos libros ameritarían varios posts:</p>
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<li><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Refactoring-Improving-Design-Existing-Code/dp/0201485672/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&amp;s=books&amp;qid=1264187467&amp;sr=1-1" target="_blank">Refactoring: Improving the Design of Existing Code</a> by Martin Fowler, el primer capítulo de este libro tuvo gran impacto en mi estilo de programación, a tal nivel que sin dudar podría decir que mi vida como programador se divide antes y después de leer este libro.</li>
<li><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Test-Driven-Development-Kent-Beck/dp/0321146530/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&amp;s=books&amp;qid=1264187362&amp;sr=1-1" target="_blank">Test Driven Development: By Example</a> by Kent Beck, es uno de los libros que no pude soltar hasta terminar de leerlo porque aprender TDD con un ejemplo, con los comentarios, recomendaciones y patrones que Kent Beck comparte es tener una lluvia de nuevas ideas que te sumerge tanto en esta técnica que no puedes dejarla hasta ver el resultado final.</li>
<li><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Pragmatic-Thinking-Learning-Refactor-Programmers/dp/1934356050/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&amp;s=books&amp;qid=1264187438&amp;sr=1-1" target="_blank">Pragmatic Thinking and Learning: Refactor Your Wetware</a> by Andy Hunt, debo confesar que antes de leer este libro no me preocupaba mucho por aprender sobre el funcionamiento del cerebro y como aplicar ese conocimiento para ser mas productivo. Algunas de las técnicas (mindmaps, wikis, etc.) que se menciona ya las venia usando y al leerlo pude comprender porque funcionaban tan bien; otras técnicas fueron nuevas para mi pero rápidamente se convirtieron en parte importante de mis hábitos y rutinas (molesking, podcast, contexts, gtd)</li>
<li><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Presentation-Zen-Simple-Design-Delivery/dp/0321525655/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&amp;s=books&amp;qid=1264188366&amp;sr=1-1" target="_blank">Presentation Zen: Simple Ideas on Presentation Design and Delivery</a> by Garr Reynolds, me gusta hacer presentaciones y siempre he probado nuevas técnicas como solo usar imágenes o usar mapas mentales. Este libro me brindó un nueva base para hacer presentaciones y despertó uno de los hobbies dormidos que tenía (la <a href="http://www.flickr.com/modlost" target="_blank">fotografía</a>). Lo que más me impacto en este libro es que no solo es sobre presentaciones sino que tiene mas cosas que se pueden aplicar en cada contexto de tu vida.</li>
<li><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Whole-New-Mind-Right-Brainers-Future/dp/1594481717/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&amp;s=books&amp;qid=1264187411&amp;sr=1-1" target="_blank">A Whole New Mind: Why Right-Brainers Will Rule the Future</a> by Daniel Pink, me intrigaba leer este libro por referencias de Andy Hunt y Garr Reynolds así que la compré (mi primera adquisición para el Kindle Global) y no quedé decepcionado, la propuesta, los ejercicios,  los sustentos, etc. me impactaron y afianzó más mi interés por aprender sobre el cerebro humano y potenciar el lado &#8220;derecho&#8221; del cerebro.</li>
<li><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Getting-Things-Done-Stress-Free-Productivity/dp/0142000280/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&amp;s=books&amp;qid=1264191399&amp;sr=8-1" target="_blank">Getting Things Done: The Art of Stress-Free Productivity</a> by David Allen, por varias fuentes ya había escuchado sobre esta técnica y decidí comprar el libro luego de ver la presentación de<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qo7vUdKTlhk" target="_blank"> David en Google.</a> La técnica es muy pero muy buena y llevo aplicándola en el trabajo con mucho éxito pero aun necesito llevarla a otros contextos como el personal y en mis consultorías.</li>
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<p>Esta es la lista hasta ahora y creo que aumentará rápidamente porque he pedido varios libros que recomiendan estos autores. Lo más emocionante de todo esto es aplicar las técnicas que enseñan y ver que funcionen no solo contigo sino con las personas a las que compartes este conocimiento.</p>
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		<title>Understanding the Linux Virtual Memory Manager</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Aug 2006 04:57:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Abner</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Title: Understanding the Linux Virtual Memory Manager Author(s): Mel Gorman Published: 2004 Edition: 1st Editorial: Prentice Hall I found this book in Mel Gorman&#8217;s site when I was searching about Linux kernel internals. You can donwload this book from his site based on kernel 2.4 VM or get the printed edition which has notes about [...]]]></description>
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<td>Mel Gorman</td>
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<td>2004</td>
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<td>1st</td>
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<p>I found this book in Mel Gorman&#8217;s site when I was searching about Linux kernel internals. You can donwload this book from his site based on kernel 2.4 VM or get   the printed edition which has notes about kernel 2.6 VM.</p>
<p>You will need to have some knowledge about operating system internals before reading this book. It has approximately 200 theory pages and 500 source code documented pages.</p>
<p>I recommend chapter 8: SLAB Allocator.</p>
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		<title>Exploiting Software – How to break code</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Aug 2006 18:56:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Abner</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Title: Exploiting Software &#8211; How to break code Author(s): Greg Hoglund, Gary McGraw Published: 2004 Edition: 1st Editorial: Addison Wesley What is the difference between Software Security and Application Security?, Do you want to know the answer? Read this book (page 44). Let&#8217;s talk about the book, I learned a lot of from this book, [...]]]></description>
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<p>What is the difference between Software Security and Application Security?, Do you want to know the answer? Read this book (page 44).</p>
<p>Let&#8217;s talk about the book, I learned a lot of from this book, for example:</p>
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<li>The Trinity of Trouble</li>
<li>Software/Application Security</li>
<li>A lot oft Attack Patterns</li>
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<p>I recommend this book for everyone that wants to build secure software <img src='http://www.modlost.net/home/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_razz.gif' alt=':P' class='wp-smiley' /> </p>
<p>Remember, everything is posible, hack the planet!</p>
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		<title>PHP Bible</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Aug 2006 18:51:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Title: PHP Bible Author(s): Tim Converse &#38; Joyce park Published: 2002 Edition: 2nd Editorial: Wiley In 2001, I started playing with LAMP (GNU/LiNUX, Apache, MySQL, PHP). Some tutorials and the php online documentation were a great help to getting started with this scripting language but they weren&#8217;t enough. In 2003, I bought this book and [...]]]></description>
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<td>Tim Converse &amp; Joyce park</td>
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<td>2002</td>
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<p>In 2001, I started playing with LAMP (GNU/LiNUX, Apache, MySQL, PHP). Some tutorials and the php online documentation were a great help to getting started with this scripting language but they weren&#8217;t enough.</p>
<p>In 2003, I bought this book and it helped me a lot to get a strong knowledge of  PHP programming. Also in 2003, I got my first job and my very first task was to participate in the development of three applications using PHP. This book is special to me.</p>
<p>Let&#8217;s talk about the book itself, the chapters I like and I recommend are:</p>
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<li>Chapter 31: PHP and XML</li>
<li>Chapter 32: Web Services</li>
<li>Chapter 36: Security and Cryptography</li>
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<p>I also found the Appendix A: PHP for C Programmers very interesting because I had been a C programmer since 1993.</p>
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		<title>Learning Perl</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Aug 2006 18:49:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Title: Learning Perl Author(s): Randal L. Schwartz, Tom Phoenix &#38; Brian D Foy Published: 2005 Edition: 4th Editorial: O&#8217;Reilly This book is also known as &#8220;The Llama Book&#8221;. Perl is one of my favorite programming languages. Perl is amazing but it could be a nightmare if you see code programmed by an upset guy. I [...]]]></description>
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<td>Randal L. Schwartz, Tom Phoenix &amp; Brian D Foy</td>
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<p><span id="more-120"></span>This book is also known as &#8220;The Llama Book&#8221;. Perl is one of my favorite programming languages. Perl is amazing but it could be a nightmare if you see code programmed by an upset guy.</p>
<p>I found this book very interesting because you can read, read, read, and don&#8217;t stop. It&#8217;s not boring and if you are planning to learn Perl, I recommend this book.</p>
<p>If you are a perl programmer this book can help you a lot because it explains some concepts behind the design of Perl. Happy hacking!!</p>
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