A few weeks ago, Marc (thanks mate) recommend and sent me the book The Mythical Man-Month by Fred Brooks in a PDF file, but as I am a compulsive online buyer and I love the smell of new books I decided to buy it.

Fred Brooks (IBM, project manager of OS/360) wrote this book about software project management in 1975 (I have the anniversary edition, 1995) and this is what has surprised me more when reading it, even though the book was first written more than 30 years ago, project managers (myself) are having the same problems he had.

The tendency for managers to repeat such errors in project development led Brooks to quip that his book is called “The Bible of Software Engineering” because “everybody reads it but nobody does anything about it!”

Promise, I’ll do!!

If you need to manage a project, tools like Microsoft Visual SourceSafe (source control software) Goplan (online project management and collaboration), google apps (Web app for communication and collaboration) and many more can make your life a bit easier but for sure won’t prevent you from more than one headache, promise.

Banksy – Wall and Peace, I’ve got this book at the office, and I’m used to check it out when I need a break…

“A lot of people never use their initiative because no-one told them to.”

The book shows and explains some of the best work from Banksy, a British street artist with an international reputation who in my opinion does a f**g good stuff!

One important thing, don’t buy his street art in an auction house, its undemocratic, it glorifies greed and he never sees any of the money

Very well done video!

Very unusual way to show something! The Book of SPAM

You can see the making of on toastvertising.com

Do you want to help the CIA finding Bin Laden?

First of all you should have this cool book to warm up and find him on the peper. I had it on my hands yesterday and promise is not easy…

You can buy the “Where’s Bin Laden” book in amazon.

Another good secret santa present!

El pasado fin de semana me termin? de leer Kafka en la orilla un libro (prestado por mi flatmate Pilun) que creo merece rese?ar en este blog.

Se trata de Kafka en la orilla de Haruki Murakami (Kyoto, 1949).

Una historia original (almenos muy diferente) donde las haya, que me consigui? atrapar desde los primeros cap?tulos, cuando las dos historias principales de la novela comienzan a alternarse y el juego de la imaginaci?n y lo incre?ble empieza a hacerse patente (el punto entre la fantas?a y la realidad nunca est? determinado).

Personajes que hablan con gatos, que tienen el don de hacer llover peces o sanguijuelas del cielo en un momento dado, a veces hacen que pueda parecer una novela un poco infantil, pero para nada, en mi opini?n es una tragedia como la copa de un pino, plagada de referencias culturales contempor?neas, m?sica y erotismo que la convierten en una obra a tener en cuenta.

M?s que justificado que fuera uno de los diez libros del a?o 2005 (seg?n The New York Times).