Technical Books read in 2017

Looking back at the technical books I had read in 2017, the biggest surprise is that I didn’t read any books on Oracle which I think is the longest time I have spent between Oracle books. This hiatus will not last long into 2018 because of the imminent launch of Pete Finnigan’s new book The four […]

Transition

You will have noticed that in my recent posts I have been writing about more and more about technologies other than Oracle. This deliberate change reflects my own journey as I move from the “classic” Oracle Developer role; working with Application Express and Oracle Forms to becoming a polyglot programmer. I have spent the last […]

Technical Books I have read in 2016

I have always enjoyed reading books about Programming. From books that lead you to take your first tentative steps with a new language to ones that take you on a deep dive into the world of particular feature. I especially enjoy ones that discuss language agnostic programming concepts such as debugging, estimating etc. Books like […]

Contributing to an Open Source Project

I have been interested in Git, the distributed version control software since reading the first edition of Scott Chacon’s Git book way back in 2010. However outside of my own projects, my real world experience of using Git is relatively limited and it’s one of the skills I never seem to get around to improving on. To change […]