On: Some things I've learnt about programming

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I highly recommend the book "Making Software: What Really Works, and Why We Believe It".

John Graham-Cumming, the author of the article submitted here, has a review of this book on Amazon.com:

http://www.amazon.com/Making-Software-Really-Works-Believe/d...

"This isn't a book about evangelizing the latest development fad, it's about hard data on what does and does not work in software engineering."