Introduction A Philosophy of Software Design by John Ousterhout is a superb book and one I would recommend to any one regardless of where they are in their career because it will make them a better Developer. Chapter 2 is my favourite and is worth the price of the book by itself. It is in […]
I know I’m joining the conversation late, but I have just finished Designing Data-Intensive Applications by Martin Kleppmann and thoroughly enjoyed it. There are many discussions of this book and this YouTube interview from 2023 with the author, is a good place to start. In this post, I am going to talk about the final […]
This annual post is one of my favorites. In last years post I mentioned that the number of technical books I read had dropped from seven in 2018 to three in 2019. For 2020 that number is zero. Since turning pro, it is the first year in which I have not read a book on […]
I have wanted to volunteer to help run a Code Club since first hearing about it back in June 2013 thanks to this episode of the Ubuntu Podcast where they interviewed one of the founders; Linda Sandvik The universe had different plans for me for a while but it was in the back of mind […]
I try to attend a developers conference once a year and this year I attended NDC London 2018. I was surprised that only two developers out of the many I had asked before going knew of the NDC brand of conferences. I discovered NDC thanks to Carl and Richard of .NET Rocks! Thanks gents, I owe […]
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