Book Review

As you might have noticed by the title, Soft Skills by John Z. Sonmez is not a typical book for developers. But is it? Even though this book doesn’t talk about technical aspects like the structure of your code, programming languages (though .NET is mentioned a few times), or what cloud (or no-cloud) provider you should use – over its 500+ pages, John dives into a wide range of topics you might be surprised to find in a book dedicated to developers.

Many people do not like to write documentation, or if they do, it’s often detached from the source code, leading to it quickly becoming outdated. This is a common problem I’ve noticed in the majority of closed-source codebases I’ve had the chance to work with. I can only hope that I was the unlucky one, and your case is different :)