From: Stuart Ellis <stuart@...>
Date: 2010-06-21T22:34:15+09:00
Subject: Re: App with lots of business logic

I'd second Code Complete. Like the Pragmatic Programmer, it's a really a
book for teaching you ways of thinking. The code examples are brief and
in Java or C++; I'm not sure why it was published by Microsoft Press, as
there's nothing Microsoft-specific in it.

Design Patterns in Ruby by Russ Olsen is also fantastic.

On Mon, 21 Jun 2010 21:39 +0900, "Jason Stewart"
<jstewart@fusionary.com> wrote:
> Hi Josh,
> 
> It's a Microsoft book, but reading Code Complete a couple of times has
> given me a good grasp on how to deal with challenges of any size in
> software design. I cant think of any other single book that covers the
> same material in a better way. In fact, before I read this, I was
> thinking about re-reading it again.
> 
> Cheers,
> Jason Stewart
> 
> 
> On Fri, Jun 18, 2010 at 5:16 PM, Josh Cheek <josh.cheek@gmail.com> wrote:
> > Hi, starting basically my biggest project to date (a Rails app). I wasn't
> > initially intimidated, but the more we talk about the process of how we get
> > from A to B, the more I realize that it involves tons of conditional,
> > overridable, partially applied until approved but maybe gets rolled back or
> > overridden, messy rules, and very large (for me anyway) domain of
> > information being collected, generated, queried and acted upon.
> >
> > I'm usually pretty confident, because I work hard and I reflect a lot, and
> > am able to anticipate and overcome quite a few hurdles due to that. But
> > right now I'm really worried that any small mistake or poor decision in how
> > I design or implement it could reverberate out and have an extremely
> > negative impact on the project. Done right it will probably be very
> > convoluted, done wrong it will be a nightmare.
> >
> > I want to do it the right way, so that I can learn good principles, have
> > something I enjoy working on and am proud of, and gain the confidence and
> > capacity to continue to work on projects of this magnitude in the future.
> >
> > What resources (especially books, but I'm open) would you suggest I read to
> > prepare myself to handle the scope and complexity of this project?
> >
> 
>