Our book for August, as selected by our voting members: Don Norman’s classic, The Design of Everyday Things (Revised and Expanded Edition).
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The poll is closed and we have a selection for our May book: Coders at Work – Reflections on the Craft of Programming, by Peter Seibel! This one’s on the longer side (632 pages), but since the chapters are …
Continue readingDue to, you know, Everything That’s Going On, we won’t be meeting in person at the ActiveProspect office next week to discuss Mike Monteiro’s Ruined by Design. Instead, we’re going to try meeting via video chat. There will probably …
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The votes have been counted and we have a pick for our next book! In March, we’ll be discussing Ruined by Design – How Designers Destroyed the World, and What We Can Do to Fix It, by Mike Monteiro…
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The polls are closed, the votes have been counted, and we have a winner! For our first meetup in 2020 we’ll be discussing Cornelia Davis’ Cloud Native Patterns – Designing Change-tolerant Software.
… Continue readingCloud platforms promise the holy grail: near-zero
The polls are closed and we have a winner – for our October 2019 meetup we’ll be discussing John Markoff’s What the Dormouse Said – How the Sixties Counterculture Shaped the Personal Computer Industry.
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With a little more than a month before our Aug. 27 meeting to discuss Martin Fowler’s Refactoring, 2nd ed., you still have plenty of time to grab your own copy of this essential masterpiece. If you’re worried that this …
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The polls are closed and we have a winner – for our August 2019 meetup we’ll be discussing the recently updated second edition of the industry classic, Refactoring: Improving the Design of Existing Code, by Martin Fowler!
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From The Guardian, an adapted excerpt of Data and Goliath, the book we’ll be discussing at next month’s meetup:
… Continue readingIn this new world of computing, we’re no longer expected to manage our computing environment. We trust the feudal
The votes are in and we have a winner – for our May 2019 meetup we’ll be discussing Data and Goliath: The Hidden Battles to Collect Your Data and Control Your World, by Bruce Schneier.
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