Mohamed Sanaulla07/21/12
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Book Review: Scala for the Impatient

Being a newbie with lot of failed efforts to learn Scala, I found this book to be easy to pick Scala concepts and also familiarize with the code.

Kief Morris07/19/12
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7 Books On The Reading List For Organizing Continuous Delivery

There are a number of books that influenced Kief Morris' thinking on Continuous Delivery. Here are his top 7.

Robert Diana07/17/12
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Book Review: Data Analysis with Open Source Tools

Before I get to the book review, I wanted to mention a basic note about book reviews. In the past I have reviewed books in a less than traditional manner . . .

Larry White07/16/12
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10 Books To Make You Smarter (And A Better Worker)

Ten of the best books from the Deathray Research bibliography. Guaranteed to make you smarter about software engineering and the world. Inspired by the book, "This Will Make You Smarter", and my teenage son, who said today “All books are self-help books”. Couldn’t agree more.

Jalpesh Vadgama07/14/12
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Free Visual Studio 2012 eBook from Telerik

Visual studio 2012 is in the RC stage and I am exploring it intensely. Visual Studio 2012 is, without a doubt, an excellent editor. It is much more mature and comes with lots of features. Telerik – A well know in third party controls vendor released a free eBook on Visual Studio 2012 and ASP.NET 4.5. You can find lots of time-saving features documented in this eBook.

Brian Whalley06/25/12
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The DevOps Reading List: 10 Books & Blogs You Should Be Reading

Here’s a selection of great DevOps-related blogs and books. There’s also a Google Reader bundle or RSS feed that you can use to subscribe at the bottom of that section.

Tom Brander06/21/12
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Core Python Applications Programming, Third Ed.

Book Review: Core Python Applications Programming, Third Edition, Wesley J. Chun, March 2012, isbn 0-13-267620-9 Do you have a good friend who can help guide you through learning many of the...

Buddhika Chamith06/17/12
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Book Review: Hadoop - the Definitive Guide (3rd ed.)

Hadoop has now become the de facto standard for large scale data analytics. With all the rage behind "Big Data" and "NoSQL" Hadoop is well positioned as the framework of...

Shane Willerton06/12/12
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Review of The Scrum Field Guide: Practical Advice for Your First Year

Scrum is the project management portion of Agile development. At a generic level, Scrum gives management the tools to monitor and track the progress of the favorite...

Alex Staveley06/04/12
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Book Review: 97 Things Every Software Architect Should Know

The book contains 97 articles published by a range of software professional expressing their views on various aspects of software architecture. Many of the articles are not very technical in nature

James Sugrue05/15/12
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Scala For The Impatient

With one of the most appealing titles I've ever seen in a programming book, I could not recommend Scala for the Impatient highly enough. The author, Cay Horstmann, has written many books about...

Nicolas Frankel05/09/12
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Specification by Example review

Facts 18 chapters, 254 pages, $29.21This book covers Specifications by Example (you could have guessed it from the title). In effect, SBE are a way to build the right software (for the...

Mike Driscoll05/05/12
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eBook Review – Guide to: Learning Iteration and Generators in Python

Last month around the time of PyCon USA 2012, Matt Harrison sent me a copy of his newest book, Guide to: Learning Iteration and Generators in Python. I’ve been wanting to learn more about generators anyway, so I thought this was pretty fortuitous. We’ll take a quick look at the good and the bad after the jump.

John Cook04/26/12
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The Linux Command Line: Book Review

No Starch Press recently released The Linux Command Line: A Complete Introduction by William E. Shotts, Jr. True to its name, the book is about using Linux from command line. It’s not an...

Mohamed Sanaulla04/23/12
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Book Review: Code Simplicity

Lot of the concepts explained in the book are put forth as science, but I don't agree. A lot still depends on the individual, they can be stated as guidelines but not something as concrete as Newtons Laws of Motion.