hi all its rare that i read nonfiction these days that is worth reviewing. most nonfiction simply consists of reference material examples and stepbystep instructions to help in a given field of study. as a software engineer i often find myself digging into a particular book for an example or a hint as to how to implement a piece of code. but only rarely do i find myself read......
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i was sitting down last week looking at yet another problem where i needed to parse some data and bust it up into a tree so that i could walk it and generate some specialized output. generally my need for doing this has been smallish very specialized and i know exactly what i want so cranking out the code by hand is pretty painless. in this case however i need to parse some c......
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pragmatic version control using git another book for work to buy for the team.......
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this is more of a general technology post than i have been doing recently. most of my posts have been rubyrails related for a while now but here is a general one for you. what is the future of books i know there are always going to be paper books around for most of my lifetime if only because there will alwyas be something about breaking apart the binding apart on a book so that it opens ......
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this post has an even shorter shelflife than my others. the pragmatic programmers along with most of the usa it seems are offering special discounts for black friday. in this case it is 25 off their book prices. they have some pretty impressive books in their lineup so now may just be the time to stock up.......
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oggi negli stati uniti si festeggia il giorno del ringraziamento e domani come tradizione il black friday la giornata che segna ufficialmente lapertura del periodo degli acquisti natalizi. come tradizione in occasione del black friday possibile acquistare molti prodotti usufruendo di sconti e promozioni. ve ne segnalo alcune che mi sono arrivate via email. agile web s......
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25 off the ee screencasts pragprog is having a oneday black friday sale. 25 off pretty much everything in the store books screencasts pdfs. great way to stock up on goodies for the holidays. did i mention the ee screencast series is part of this save more than 15 when you buy the entire series.......
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pragmatic programmers are having a sale this friday. use the coupon code tur key to get a 25 discount.......
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back in august i wrote my first iphone app filepile. i had noticed that no apps on the app store let me look at the iphones internal file structure and the absence struck me as odd. i got around to submitting it on october 1 mainly because the nda was lifted that day and pragmatic programmers iphone sdk book released that day included a similar file browser as sample ......
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the talk unshackle your domain given by greg young was the highlight of qcon for me. an architectural approach that is relatively easy to understand incredibly scalable and supports a rich domain model. at his presentation greg quickly pointed out some of the problems with traditional enterprise application architecture such as jee . this architecture usually consists of ......
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the pragmatic programmer announces the rspec book . from the website behaviour driven development is about writing software that matters. it is an approach to agile software development that takes cues from test driven development domain driven design and acceptance test driven planning. rspec is the leading behaviour driven development tool in ruby. it supports test d......
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my book web design for developers is now available in beta form. youll learn how to design a web site from start to finish and youll use many of the techniques and thought processes youve come to rely on as an application developer. youll learn some color theory some typography basics some xhtml and css and how to incorporate photoshop and illustrator into a w......
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... books from the pragmatic programmers httpwww .pragprog. com promising......
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it took us six weeks to break the curse of the singleton. six weeks by the end of it wed rewritten most of our data access layer. we began the process of removing singletons innocently enough. i thought i was well prepared for the task. id just finished reading the pragmatic programmer my review of the pragmatic programmer and working effectively with legacy code ......
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i often find myself longing to be able to use clojure a very enticing lispy language that runs on the jvm. i could possibly be using it right now in my dissertation research. it has the promise of dynamic languages functional programming almostas coolaser lang concurrency jvm performance and java library soup. it could be so awesome. a few months ago i started briefly down this road u......
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thursday morning first day of rubyconf. matz has finished his keynote address and a check of my watch tells me that ive got some time to kill before gregg pollacks talk on scaling rails starts at 1025 so i head up to my hotel room for a bit. unfortunately when i returned to the conference room around 1020 i found that gregg had already begun his presentation to a ......
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as part of the continuous process of guiding engine yards future we must make certain that were allocating resources properly in the near term so that our longer term projects can continue on to fruition. a few weeks ago at rubyconf 2008 koichi sasada the lead developer of ruby 1.9 also known as yarv did rubinius the honor of projecting that rubinius would eventua......
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i sit in the atlanta airport reminiscing over the events of pyworks 08. this was the first year for pyworks but mta combined the conference with php architect and i believe everyone was happy with the combination. at a minimum people had engaging conversations between the groups and a significant number of them crossattended the sessions. i attended two php sessions and one neutral se......
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raphael stolt has done a review of a book thats helping bridge the gap between rails and php for those already using the php language. the book rails for php developers part of the pragmatic programmers series of books authored by derek devries and mike naberezny is a guide to learning ruby on rails from a php developers perspective. the ebook ver......
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if by some chance you missed it im now doing the edge rails updates for the riding rails weblog. oh and im writing for ruby inside and rails inside now too. so you know i have more outlets for your important news a critical look at the current state of ruby testing something of a rant from dan croak. its liable to provoke heated discussion. ho......
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debugging 3rd party library code quickly and effectively is one of the skills which most obviously separates senior and junior developers from my experience. from observation over the last couple of years there are some patterns in the approaches which the best debuggers take. get more information sometimes its difficult to understand exactly how to solve a problem without getting ......
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bizspark at aglance rating the pragmatic bookshelf programmingclojure programming clojure by stuart halloway 9781934356333 mar 2009 rating ......
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last wednesday 5th of november we run our first coding dojo session at sydney office. we had a reasonable number of attendants and the experience was fantastic although we still have some points to improve. the initiative the idea was originally from my friend and flatmate mark needham . since we moved in to our new place he came up with the idea of getting together every week to so......
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