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. If you’re passionate about programming and want to get better at it, you’ve come to the
Continue readingTime again to pick our next book, and I thought we’d try something a little different, and maybe simpler. Instead of taking the best two of four, and having a pretty long wait to get to that second title, let’s just pick one from three. (Second-place books will have another
Continue readingIt’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 all the travel you may be doing for those, to grab a
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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! Distributed systems have become more fine-grained in the past 10 years, shifting from code-heavy monolithic applications to smaller, self-contained
Continue readingHere’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 next month to talk about it!
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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 Named one of the greatest minds of the 20th century by Time, Tim Berners-Lee is responsible for one of that century’s most important advancements:
Continue readingTime once again to pick our next books! The two highest-rated books from this poll will be the ones we read for our meetings in October and January. Look over these selections and make your choices using the form at the bottom of the post. Voting closes at noon on
Continue readingFrom 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 us next month to discuss!
Continue readingA good review of our May book from the Scientific American blog Roots of Unity: O’Neil talks about financial WMDs and her experiences , but the examples in her book come from many other facets of life as well: college rankings, employment application screeners, policing and sentencing algorithms, workplace wellness
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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. We live in the age of the algorithm. Increasingly, the decisions that affect our lives—where we go to school, whether we get a car loan, how
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