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I know I shouldn’t be picking up another book while there are still several on my reading list, one I’m still half way through, and branching into a completely new arena at work. The upgrades to the MBP made me consider why I do all my development through the virtual machine and don’t do anything natively. This doesn’t count the time I’ve spent tooling around with another language. Yet another book started, but never finished.

I have no ambitions on reading this right away, but hope to get to it soon, if only in a diminished capacity. There is still the matter of finishing the last book I started.

While at the bookstore looking for something that might help with the new arena, I noticed a book that I couldn’t help but picking up and laugh. Behind it was this book, the only OS X programming book in the whole store. It must have been placed there as joke. 

I should come up with a new title for this category. Hopefully it is not a bookshelf resident, but gets read, passed around, written in, referenced, anything but sitting around gathering dust.

After a recommendation from a friend, and anticipating an upcoming vacation, I decided to use a Barnes and Nobel gift card to add The Pragmatic Programmer to my bookshelf.

It has come highly recommended and I look forward to getting into later this week. I was pretty sure David Thomas was the origin of the Angry Monkeys. In addition, he has several other books from his pragmatic bookshelf which are all highly rated.

I’ll be sure to post more as I make my way through it.

I passed on several other books. I was also considering, in several combinations:

• Beautiful Code
• XCode 3 Unleashed
• Beautiful Evidence by Edward Tufte
• Here Comes Everybody by Clay Shirky
• The Myths of Innovation

After seeing the alternate cover for Here Comes Everybody, I remember where I first heard about it. Jeff Atwood wrote a post about him recently. Maybe that book bumps up a few notches on my reading list now.