A good book - recommended.
A bad book - don't buy it. or rating. e.g. I read Windows NT Network Programming a very long time ago and it helped me a lot - but it's an old book, and may be obsolete or out of print. So there's no point it in rating it highly based on what I though of it 10 years ago.
File under: Category Book Worm, Category Software Development
Agile Software Development: Software Through People, Cockburn, Alistair ISBN 0-201-69969-9 (alternate) Analysis Patterns: Reusable Object Models (Object-Oriented Software Engineering Series), Fowler, Martin ISBN 0-201-89542-0 (alternate) The Art of Software Testing, Myers, Glenford J. ISBN 0-471-04328-1 (alternate) Best of Booch: Designing Strategies for Object Technology, Booch, Grady (Editor) ISBN 0-13-739616-3 (alternate) Beyond Software Architecture: Creating and Sustaining Winning Solutions, Hohmann, Luke ISBN 0-201-77594-8 (alternate) The C++ Programming Language: Language Library and Design Tutorial, Stroustrup, Bjarne ISBN 0-201-88954-4 (alternate) The C++ Standard Library: A Tutorial and Reference, Nicolai M. Josuttis ISBN 0-201-37926-0 (alternate) C++ Templates: The Complete Guide, Vandevoorde, David ISBN 0-201-73484-2 (alternate) The Career Programmer: Guerilla Tactics for an Imperfect World, Duncan, Christopher ISBN 1-59059-008-2 (alternate) Code Complete, McConnell, Steve ISBN 1-55615-484-4 (alternate) Debugging the Development Process: Practical Strategies for Staying Focused, Hitting Ship Dates, and Building Solid Teams, Maguire, Steve ISBN 1-55615-650-2 (alternate) The Design and Evolution of C++, Stroustrup, Bjarne ISBN 0-201-54330-3 (alternate) Design Patterns, Gamma, Erich ISBN 0-201-63361-2 (alternate) Dynamics of Software Development, McCarthy, Jim ISBN 1-55615-823-8 (alternate) Effective C++: 50 Specific Ways to Improve Your Programs and Design (2nd Edition), Meyers, Scott ISBN 0-201-92488-9 (alternate) Effective STL: 50 Specific Ways to Improve Your Use of the Standard Template Library, Meyers, Scott ISBN 0-201-74962-9 (alternate) Generic Programming and the STL: Using and Extending the C++ Standard Template Library (Delete (Addison-Wesley Professional Computing S.)), Austern, Matthew H. ISBN 0-201-30956-4 (alternate) An Introduction to General Systems Thinking, Weinberg, Gerald M ISBN 0-932633-49-8 (alternate) Journey of the Software Professional: The Sociology of Software Development, Hohmann, Luke ISBN 0-13-236613-4 (alternate) Large-Scale C++ Software Design, Lakos, John ISBN 0-201-63362-0 (alternate) Modern C++ Design: Generic Programming and Design Patterns Applied, Alexandrescu, Andrei ISBN 0-201-70431-5 (alternate) More Effective C++: 35 New Ways to Improve Your Programs and Designs, Meyers, Scott ISBN 0-201-63371-X (alternate) The Mythical Man-Month: Essays on Software Engineering, Brooks, Frederick Phillips ISBN 0-201-00650-2 (alternate) The Object Advantage: Business Process Reengineering With Object Technology, Jacobson, Ivar ISBN 0-201-42289-1 (alternate) Object-Oriented Software Engineering: A Use Case Driven Approach, Jacobson, Ivar ISBN 0-201-54435-0 (alternate) Pattern-Oriented Software Architecture, Volume 1: A System of Patterns, Buschmann, Frank ISBN 0-471-95869-7 (alternate) Patterns of Enterprise Application Architecture (The Addison-Wesley Signature Series), Fowler, Martin ISBN 0-321-12742-0 (alternate) Peopleware: Productive Projects and Teams, DeMarco, Tom ISBN 0-932633-43-9 (alternate) The Practice of Programming, Kernighan, Brian W. ISBN 0-201-61586-X (alternate) The Pragmatic Programmer: From Journeyman to Master, Hunt, Andrew ISBN 0-201-61622-X (alternate) Process Patterns : Building Large-Scale Systems Using Object Technology (SIGS: Managing Object Technology), Ambler, Scott W. ISBN 0-521-64568-9 (alternate) Professional Software Engineering: Shorter Schedules, Higher Quality Products, More Successful Projects, Better Software Careers, McConnell, Steve ISBN 0-321-19367-9 (alternate) Programming Visual C++, Kruglinski, David J. ISBN 1-57231-857-0 (alternate) The Psychology of Computer Programming: Silver Anniversary Edition, Weinberg, Gerald M. ISBN 0-932633-42-0 (alternate) Rapid Development, McConnell, Steve ISBN 1-55615-900-5 (alternate) Refactoring: Improving the Design of Existing Code, Fowler, Martin ISBN 0-201-48567-2 (alternate) Rise & Resurrection of the American Programmer (Yourdon Press Computing Series), Yourdon, Edward ISBN 0-13-956160-9 (alternate) Ruminations on C++: A Decade of Programming Insight and Experience, Koenig, Andrew ISBN 0-201-42339-1 (alternate) Software Engineering (International Computer Science Series), Sommerville, Ian ISBN 0-201-56529-3 (alternate) Software Failure: Management Failure : Amazing Stories and Cautionary Tales (Wiley Series in Software Engineering Practice), Flowers, Stephen ISBN 0-471-95113-7 (alternate) UML Distilled: Applying the Standard Object Modelling Language (Object Technology S.), Fowler, M. ISBN 0-201-32563-2 (alternate) Understanding Electronic Commerce (Strategic Technology Series), Kosiur, David ISBN 1-57231-560-1 (alternate) The Unified Modeling Language Reference Manual (Addison-Wesley Object Technology Series), Rumbaugh, James ISBN 0-201-30998-X (alternate) The Unified Modeling Language User Guide, Booch, Grady ISBN 0-201-57168-4 (alternate) The Unified Software Development Process, Jacobson, Ivar ISBN 0-201-57169-2 (alternate) Visual Basic 6.0 Business Objects, Lhotka, Rockford ISBN 1-86100-107-X (alternate) Waltzing with Bears: Managing Risk on Software Projects, DeMarco, Tom ISBN 0-932633-60-9 (alternate) Writing Secure Code, Howard, M. ISBN 0-7356-1722-8 (alternate) Writing Solid Code: Microsoft's Techniques for Developing Bug-Free C Programs, Maguire, Steve ISBN 1-55615-551-4 (alternate)