For each quarter, I define three goals for myself as described in Setting yourself up to success. In the previous quarters, I had personal goals related to the C++ Standard Library. As I was already recommended to read it, I started to consume the monstre 1100 pages long book The...

MJ DeMarco in his book offers to “crack the code to wealth” so that you can “live rich for a lifetime”. It sounds like a clickbait, doesn’t it? Far too often these books are written by people who by all means live a decent life, but that’s all. They are...

The Obstacle Is The Way is the third book of Ryan Holiday and maybe the one with the biggest impact so far: a stoic life guide. Its title is so evident. I found it an entertaining book to read, but it might be enough to go back to a quiet...

Who was it? It depends. If we were looking for a technically correct answer, it would be simply impossible to tell and someone who died long years later. But given his character, his stance, his acts and decisions and his legacy, it was Marcus Porcius Cato or if you prefer...

In an era when so many people want to have the next big shot when everyone wants to come out with the next big thing and suddenly find themselves at the top, this book, The Compound Effect by Darren Hardy has a very important message. Success comes from small actions,...

Effective Modern C++ is the book with the biggest impact on my professional life recently. As I’ve written already, I used to work with older versions of C++, mostly with C++03. Scott Meyers in Effective Modern C++ explains the new elements of C++11 and goes into details about the tips...

Code Ahead, what shall I call you? You are a novel. A fiction. Yet according to you, you’re semi-autobiographical. You are a rather exact picture of how things go in software development. Yet you’re also a manifesto of how things should go instead. You give lots of pieces of advice...

Have you, Sandor, really read that book? - you might ask if you know me or you simply know what path I’m following. A hint: the technical path. Yet, my answer would be, of course, I had and it was great! What it is about? It is a map helping...

After I attended a training on the subject of optimizing C++, I felt I’d be interested in going a bit deeper. At least to read a bit more about this topic. So I asked the trainer for some books he’d recommend about optimization. One was Kurt Guntheroth’s Optimized C++. As...

You might have noticed that I don’t just read technical books. In fact, at least half of the books I read are non-technical. A couple of months ago, I found a great deal on Amazon and I could get Ryan Holidays’ Perennial Seller for less than 3 bucks in the...