Recommended Things

Perhaps you'll find a few of these things just as useful or in­ter­est­ing as I did. I have separate Windows, OS X, and webdev pages that you might be interested in too.

Reading

• The Shah by Abbas Milani
• Pro­gram­ming Pearls by Jon Bentley
• Effective Pro­gram­ming: More Than Writing Code by Jeff "Coding Horror" Atwood
• The Pragmatic Programmer: From Journeyman to Master
• Seven Pillars of Wisdom by T. E. Lawrence
• Beyond Software Ar­chi­tec­ture by Luke Hohmann
• Refac­tor­ing: Improving the Design of Existing Code by Martin Fowler.
• Web Operations by John Allspaw

Hardware

• Dell Studio XPS 9000
• Sans Digital TowerRAID TR4M-B
• Apple iPhone 5s
• Shure SE210 Sound Isolating Earphones
• Filco Ninja Majestouch-2 NKR keyboard
• 11" Apple MacBook Air with i7 CPU (2011)
• Brother MFC-8890DW Laser Printer and Scanner

Travel Gear

• Crumpler C List Celebrity Backpack (small)
• Spire Torq Backpack (2006 and 2012)
• Outlets To Go Power Strip with USB