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: Welcome to The Dream Team Nightmare, an agile adventure. As an agile adventurer, you’ll meet a whole host
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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 at 6:30, hosted as always at the ActiveProspect office, 4203 Guadalupe.
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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 Online”: Even if you delete an email the moment you read
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June’s book, the winner of the just-completed poll, is… The Art of Invisibility, by Kevin Mitnick. Your every step online is being tracked and stored, and your identity literally stolen. Big companies and big governments want to know and exploit what you do, and privacy is a luxury few can
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Here are the choices for our next couple of meetups – the two books rated highest will be the ones we read for the June and October meetings. Rank your preferences at the bottom; voting closes on April 21! To Save Everything, Click Here: The Folly of Technological Solutionism by
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August’s book selection is The Dream Team Nightmare: Boost Team Productivity Using Agile Techniques by Portia Tung (304p, published 11/13). This first-ever interactive Agile Adventure is the gripping tale of an experienced team struggling with agile adoption. In this unique mashup of a business novel written in the gamebook format,
Continue readingBest Software Writing: Starbucks & Two-Phase Commits
The March meeting of the Austin Computer Book Club is fast approaching. It’s just over a week until we meet again (on Tuesday, March 21), but there’s still time to grab an ebook copy of Best Software Writing I and read at least the most interesting-looking essays. Here’s one taste of
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March’s book selection will be a practical/technical title: The Best Software Writing I, edited by Joel Spolsky. “With a nod to both the serious and funny sides of technical writing, The Best Software Writing I: Selected and Introduced by Joel Spolsky is an entertaining read and a guide to the
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Here are the choices for our next technical book meetups – the book rated highest will be the one we read for the March, 2017 meeting (and second place will be read for the August meeting). Voting closes on January 29. Mazes for Programmers: Code Your Own Twisty Little Passages
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The winter holidays are almost upon us, 2016 is winding down, and… it’s just over a month until the next Book Club meeting! We’ll be getting together in January to talk about the essays that put the concept of “open source” on the map: Eric Raymond’s The Cathedral and the
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