PragProg’s Medium Posts

Today on Medium, I’m boosting Stephen Bussey’s author spotlight on DevTalk.

Stephen just came out with a new book called From Ruby to Elixir:

By participating in the ask me anything (AMA) here on DevTalk, you will be entered to win a copy of that book.

#ruby #elixir #book-from-ruby-to-elixir

Today on Medium, “Pattern Matching Your Way to Success” an excerpt from From Ruby to Elixir by Stephen Bussey.

Post a question in the DevTalk AMA for a chance to win a copy of the book:

#book-from-ruby-to-elixir #elixir #ruby

How about a word puzzle to start your Monday?

Clue for this Wordoku puzzle: In programming, the word is related to measuring the performance of software.

#pragprog #programming #fun

Check out our Brain Teaser books if you like puzzles:

Today on Medium, an article from the PragPub archives, July 2016:
Test-Driven Development: Need, Technical Impediments, and Solutions” by the illustrious Venkat Subramaniam.

#programming #tdd #testing #pragprog

Venkat’s books.

How do you inspire teams? Make the project an adventure! Excerpt from 101 Design Ingredients to Solve Big Tech Problems by Eewei Chen today on Medium.

The book:

#pragprog #book-101-design-ingredients-to-solve-big-tech-problems

Celebrating the beta release of High Performance PostgreSQL for Rails by Andrew Atkinson.

Pick up the book:

#data-science #postgresql #rails #ruby #book-high-performance-postgresql-for-rails

Today on Medium, “Starting An Email Scrubber Function,” an excerpt from High Performance PostgreSQL for Rails by Andrew Atkinson (now in beta):

The book:

#ruby #rails #postgresql #programming #pragprog

What are the origins of your current career or passion? Today on Medium, @mriley Mike Riley traces the path that brought him to working with technology.

Pick up Mike’s latest book, Portable Python Projects:

#programming #python #pragprog #book-portable-python-projects

Staffan Nöteberg, author of Pomodoro Technique Illustrated, talks about his trusty, tomato-shaped timer today on Medium.

The book:

#productivity #pragprog #book-pomodoro-technique-illustrated

Celebrating the audio book release of Competing with Unicorns by Jonathan Rasmusson today on Medium.

Pick up the audio book:

#pragprog #startup #book-competing-with-unicorns

Today on Medium, Jim Almo talks about self-publishing.

Interested in writing for PragProg? Send me a message margaret.eldridge@pragprog.com

#programming #books #pragprog

Want to add generative AI to your Spring Boot app? Spring AI can help. Craig Walls explains.

Craig’s @habuma book:

#spring #ai #alexa #book-build-talking-apps-for-alexa #pragprog

To celebrate the audio book release of Competing with Unicorns by Jonathan Rasmusson, here’s a text excerpt from the book.

Pick up the audio book:

#pragprog #book-competing-with-unicorns

Today on Medium, “Matching One of Several Characters With the Character Class” an excerpt from from Text Processing in JavaScript by Faraz Kelhini.

The book is filled with JavaScript text-processing recipes that use either built-in functions or regular expressions for more complex situations.

The beta book:

#programming #javascript #pragprog #book-text-processing-with-javascript

Celebrating From Objects to Functions by Uberto Barbini @uberto, which is out of beta and now fully released (in print).

Preorder the print book and support your local bookstore.

#kotlin #programming #pragprog #book-from-objects-to-functions

Today on Medium, “Starting a New Story to Modify a List,”
an excerpt from From Objects to Functions by Uberto Barbini:

Pick up the book:

#book-from-objects-to-functions #books #kotlin #pragprog

A Wordoku puzzle for programmers today on Medium. The title, “recipe for a successful program,” is also a clue.

Enjoy puzzles? Check out our Brain Teaser books:

We have more brain teaser books in the works for 2023-4 too.

#programming #pragprog

From the PragPub archives, Kent Beck describes lessons learned at Apple from Jean-Louis Gassée.

#pragprog #apple

Today on Medium, Craig Walls shows how to use Spring AI with embeddings and vector stores to answer questions about something that the model was not originally trained on.

Craig’s book:

#ai #spring #alexa #programming

Author spotlight announcement article today on Medium.

Sean Moriarity is the author of Genetic Algorithms in Elixir and Machine Learning in Elixir (in beta).

His author spotlight on DevTalk offers a chance to win a copy of his latest book – just post a question for the author.

#elixir #algorithms #books #pragprog