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Being in New Zealand does strange things to a person. Everybody who knows me, knows I don’t much like that crazy invention called a Book. However, being here I’ve already finished 4 books, all of which I can highly recommend.

• Agile Software Development with Scrum, by Ken Schwaber and Mike Beedle
• Domain-Driven Design: Tackling Complexity in the Heart of Software, by Eric Evans
• Patterns of Enterprise Application Architecture, by Martin Fowler
• Refactoring: Improving the Design of Existing Code by Martin Fowler

Next up: Design Patterns: Elements of Reusable Object-Oriented Software, by the Gang of Four. Yes, talk about classics and shame on me for not having ordered it sooner! Also reading Implementation Patterns, by Kent Beck at the moment.

It’s been a while since my last blog post. Things have been quite hectic for me these last few weeks. There was my final week at Angry Bytes, followed by a pre-NZ party and then my trip to New Zealand. Currently New Zealand looks pretty much the same as the Netherlands, seeing as I’m locked away in an office most of my time.

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