From Github’s 2015 CodeConf, author Pete Goodliffe gives a presentation on some of the ideas that are part of our March book, Becoming a Better Programmer. Give it a watch, then grab a copy & join us on 3/26 …
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March ’19: Becoming a Better Programmer
The polls are closed and we have a winner – for our March 2019 meetup we’ll be discussing Becoming a Better Programmer – A Handbook for People Who Care About Code, by Pete Goodliffe.
… Continue readingIf you’re passionate about programming
Podcast: Building Microservices
It’s the week of Thanksgiving, and a perfect time to get a head start on our next book: Sam Newman’s Building Microservices. Our next meetup isn’t until January, so you have this holiday, plus next month’s holidays, including …
Continue readingJanuary: Building Microservices
As usual, we’ll take the busy months of November and December off, and get back together in January to discuss Sam Newman’s Building Microservices. Put it on your holiday reading list!
… Continue readingDistributed systems have become more fine-grained in the
Interview: Weaving the Web
Here’s C-SPAN video of an interview with Tim Berners-Lee, hosted by the Freedom Forum in San Francisco in 1999. He discusses his book Weaving the Web and answers audience questions. Check it out, then get your copy and join us …
Continue readingOctober: Weaving the Web
The selection for our October book is Tim Berners-Lee’s Weaving the Web: The Original Design and Ultimate Destiny of the World Wide Web by its Inventor
… Continue readingNamed one of the greatest minds of the 20th century by Time, Tim Berners-Lee
Video Preview: Functional Thinking
From O’Reilly’s 2013 OSCON, author Neil Ford gives an engaging presentation using some of the ideas he would soon incorporate into our August title, Functional Thinking, Paradigm Over Syntax. Give it 40 minutes, then grab a copy and join …
Continue readingReview: Weapons of Math Destruction
A good review of our May book from the Scientific American blog Roots of Unity:
… Continue readingO’Neil talks about financial WMDs and her experiences , but the examples in her book come from many other facets of life as well: college
May: Weapons of Math Destruction
Our book for May will be Weapons of Math Destruction: How Big Data Increases Inequality and Threatens Democracy, written in 2016 by Cathy O’Neil.
… Continue readingWe live in the age of the algorithm. Increasingly, the decisions that affect our lives—where
August: Functional Thinking
For August we’ll be reading Neil Ford’s 2014 O’Reilly title, Functional Thinking: Paradigm Over Syntax.
… Continue readingRather than focus on specific language features, Functional Thinking looks at a variety of common practices in OOP languages and then shows you how