Start Small, Stay Small: A Developer’s Guide to Launching a Startup by Rob Walling My rating: 4 of 5 stars As a developer, I’m not necessarily looking to start a business that makes millions of dollars. I’m just looking to start/run a business that lets me work my own hours and live a comfortable life. This book provides some solid advice on starting and running a business by yourself or with a single partner. I think...

Tapworthy by Josh Clark My rating: 4 of 5 stars One of the best books about iPhone development that doesn’t have a single bit of code in it (which is a good thing). This book is completely focused on making good design and interface choices when building your iPhone apps. As a developer with very little design skill, I can’t recommend this book enough. It takes a practical approach to design that makes it easy to understand...

The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet’s Nest by Stieg Larsson My rating: 5 of 5 stars A fantastic conclusion to the Millenium trilogy. This book was just as great, if not better, than its predecessors. What I loved most was that the book wrapped up all of the loose ends from the entire series, something I wasn’t sure it was going to have time to do as the pages dwindled down. The character and plot development is superb and at times...

The Girl Who Played with Fire by Stieg Larsson My rating: 5 of 5 stars One of the best books I have ever read. This second book in the Stieg Larson series is even more powerful and compelling than the first. Stieg did an amazing job of pulling you to the edge of your seat and then suddenly switching story lines so that you were constantly wanting more. As the details about a story line built up, so did your anticipation to know more and...

The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson My rating: 4 of 5 stars This is originally a Swedish book and although it has been translated to English very well, I had some troubles keeping characters straight because of the names. But, I generally have a problem keeping characters straight which is one of the reasons I don’t read a lot of fiction. But this book was really enjoyable. At times, I felt like it moved slow but...

Rework by Jason Fried My rating: 4 of 5 stars This was a really short book with a lot of inspirational and sound advice. It offered examples from the authors experiences as founders of Basecamp and Ruby on Rails and how they’ve kept their company small and employees dispersed and have been very successful in a specific market. They haven’t claimed to be anything that they aren’t and they do a few things and do them...