We’re just over a month away from our next meeting, discussing The Pragmatic Programmer by Andy Hunt and Dave Thomas on March 27. If you’re not familiar with this classic title’s influence on the software industry, check out this interview …
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March: Pragmatic Programmer
Our book for March will be the 1999 classic, The Pragmatic Programmer – From Journeyman to Master, by Andrew Hunt & David Thomas.
… Continue readingStraight from the programming trenches, The Pragmatic Programmer cuts through the increasing specialization and technicalities of
Interview: Grokking Algorithms
For our January meetup, we’ll be reading and discussing Grokking Algorithms by Aditya Bhargava. For a preview of what the book is like and some background on how and why it was written, here’s a TalkPython podcast from last year …
Continue readingJanuary: Grokking Algorithms
January’s book will be Grokking Algorithms: An illustrated guide for programmers and other curious people (2016), by Aditya Y. Bhargava.
… Continue readingGrokking Algorithms is a fully illustrated, friendly guide that teaches you how to apply common algorithms to the practical problems
Review: Mythical Man-Month
A nice review of the book on the Word Yard blog: Code Reads #1: The Mythical Man-Month
… Continue readingThere’s an urgency to The Mythical Man-Month that makes it more immediate, and more satisfying, than most run-of-the-mill business books. Brooks emerged from
October: Mythical Man Month
October’s book selection is the classic The Mythical Man-Month: Essays on Software Engineering, by Frederick P. Brooks. Originally written in 1975, it was republished with four additional chapters in 1995.
… Continue readingFew books on software project management have been as
Excerpt: Dream Team Nightmare
Our next meeting is coming up soon: we’ll be talking about Portia Tung’s The Dream Team Nightmare on Tuesday, August 22. Here’s the preface, which explains the format of this unusual book:
… Continue readingWelcome to The Dream Team Nightmare, an agile
Join Us in August for This CYOA Book About Agile
Reminder: for our next meetup we’ll be reading The Dream Team Nightmare by Portia Tung. For more info on this choose-your-own adventure book, including where to get your copy, see this post. The meeting will be Tuesday, August 22 …
Excerpt: The Art of Invisibility
Our next meeting is fast approaching: we’ll be discussing Kevin Mitnick’s The Art of Invisibility on Wednesday, June 21. To give you a sample, here’s an excerpt from Wired, “Famed Hacker Kevin Mitnick Shows You How to Go Invisible …
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June’s book, the winner of the just-completed poll, is… The Art of Invisibility, by Kevin Mitnick.
… Continue readingYour every step online is being tracked and stored, and your identity literally stolen. Big companies and big governments want to know and