The votes are in, and it was a close one, but Andy Hunt’s Pragmatic Thinking and Learning: Refactor Your Wetware won out (narrowly beating Stuart Russell’s Human Compatibility). Ready to learn how our brains are wired, and how to take advantage of your brain’s architecture? Software development happens in your
Continue readingTime again to pick our next title. As usual we’ll take June and July off; we’ll be back on Tuesday, August 25. Whether or we try to get together in person at that point, we will definitely have online video-call access. Take a look at the selections below and rank
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Our book for August, as selected by our voting members: Don Norman’s classic, The Design of Everyday Things (Revised and Expanded Edition). Design doesn’t have to complicated, which is why this guide to human-centered design shows that usability is just as important as aesthetics. Even the smartest among us can
Continue readingTime again to pick our next title. As usual we’ll take June and July off; we’ll be back on Tuesday, August 25. Whether or we try to get together in person at that point, we will definitely have online video-call access. Take a look at the selections below and rank
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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 all separate interviews, it will be easy to skip around without
Continue readingTime once again to select our next Computer Book Club book, this time for our meetup in May. Whether we’ll meet in person for that meeting, we will definitely have online video-call access, too. So take a look at the selections below and rank your picks using the form at
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 be a few kinks to work out, but maybe this will
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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 The world is working exactly as designed. And it’s not working
Continue readingWelcome to 2020! Ready to keep your “read more” resolution going strong? For out next poll, we’re picking the book for our March meetup. Take a look at the selections and rank your picks using the form at the bottom of the post! Voting will close at midnight on Friday,
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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. Cloud platforms promise the holy grail: near-zero downtime, infinite scalability, short feedback cycles, fault-tolerance, and cost control. But
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