Smalltalk Best Practice Patterns

Smalltalk Best Practice Patterns by Kent Beck. Refactoring by Martin Fowler. Design Patterns by the Gang of Four. Domain Driven Design by Eric Evans.

Smalltalk Best Practices by Kent Beck. I feel the advice and experience this book provides goes well beyond Smalltalk.

Any book written by Charles Petzold is an enjoyable read, though particularly the non-MS specific titles Code and The Annotated Turing. Java Concurrency in Practice (2006) is older but relevant and clearly describes concurrency on the JVM. A must read for any Java, Scala, Clojure, etc. software engineer; well-written, enjoyable, concise. Practical Object Oriented Design in Ruby by Sandi Metz is a fun read packed with good principles for working in Ruby that are applicable in general to object oriented programming. Smalltalk Best Practice Patterns by Kent Beck is worth a read because the general principles are applicable to any OOP language. Clean Code by Robert Martin is excellent but a time commitment. (If you had to pick between SICP and Clean Code because time is at a premium I'd err on the side of Clean Code for practicality. Writing maintainable code is paramount.) The Joy of Clojure (Fogus/Houser) is excellent and mentally digestable even if you have no Lisp or Clojure background.

A remarkable classic http://www.amazon.com/Design-Patterns-Elements-Reusable-Obje... (http://www.amazon.com/Design-Patterns-Elements-Reusable-Object-Oriented/dp/0201633612) And Kent Beck's http://www.amazon.com/Smalltalk-Best-Practice-Patterns-Kent/... (http://www.amazon.com/Smalltalk-Best-Practice-Patterns-Kent/dp/013476904X)