Mike Gunderloy is one of my favorite writers and up until today it amazes me how much he churns out in terms of reviews, tip and tricks, articles, blogs, newsletters and now a new book and still do work on the side and have a family. I specially enjoy the daily Grinds and his developerCentral newsletters (which now is a blog)… and I saw that he wanted his book to be reviewed and since I have the book and have read most parts of it, I thought I would thank him through this.

The Coder To Developer is very well written book in the sense that like everything else Mike writes, it is practical and to the point. In this book he covers many things that any developer that wants to improve and exapand their experience thinks about. Things like, how can I organize and plan my projects for best outcome, how about documentation, how should that be done, or logging what my application does, what are best practices there. Anyways, to give a brief bullet point review, Mike brings up these point in this .NET development centric book (I am saying .NET because the tools he review are pretty much for .NET development ones).

So in essence he talks about:

· How you should organize and plan your projects

· Tools, from IDE to addins, Macros and many other development related tools that will come handy

· Documentation checklist and how to create it

· Configuration mgmnt (source control)

· Code generation, why, how and what tools can be used

· Strategies on packaging your software for installation

· And a number of other tips and suggestions on development related matters

Very good and practical book and I recommend it very much.