PragProg’s Medium Posts

Happy 16th-PragProg Birthday @bphogan :partying_face:

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The git-config doc clocks in at 35K words. Want a quick how-to on how to configure your install? Karl Stolley @karlstolley is doing a series of short Git Config articles for 2022, starting with the essentials like setting user.name and user.email, setting pull.rebase to false globally, and setting a default branch name.

Pick up a copy of Karl’s book, Programming WebRTC now in beta from The Pragmatic Bookshelf:

#book-programming-webrtc

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“Stop Focusing on Happiness and Measure Satisfaction Instead.” The title says it all. Measure job satisfaction instead of happiness and you’ll retain top talent. But how and what to measure? Johanna Rothman tells us straight up in leadership tip number eight. Be sure to follow along and read all the tips for a productive 2022.

Johanna @jrothman has thirteen books (and counting) published with The Pragmatic Bookshelf. Her latest offering is The Practical Ways To series:

Practical Ways to Manage Yourself
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Practical Ways to Lead & Serve (Manage) Others
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Practical Ways to Lead an Innovative Organization
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Our featured article for Friday was some writing inspiration for 2022 by yours truly.
Are you there, PragProg authors? It’s me @Margaret. Bonus points for those who get my tween lit reference.

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Today, author Ben Cotton @bcotton answers the question, “How do you distribute work fairly in an open source project where contributor availability varies?”

Ben’s book with The Pragmatic Bookshelf is In beta now:

#books-program-management-for-open-source-projects

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Author James Stanier has written two books with The Pragmatic Bookshelf: Become an Effective Software Engineering Manager, and Effective Remote Work (now in beta).

In this interview, James Stanier @jstanier tells us what inspired him to write Effective Remote Work and the mindset and skills it takes for the shift from office to remote work.
https://medium.com/pragmatic-programmers/author-spotlight-james-stanier-ff599ec2d48d

Pick up Effective Remote work, now in beta:

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Read James Stanier’s author spotlight on DevTalk, where you can also participate in his ask me anything (AMA):

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Herbert “TheBracket” Wolverson @herbert is a best-selling author on Rust topics. His books include Hands-on Rust: Effective Learning through 2D Game Development and Play and Rust Brain Teasers (now in beta). In this post, Herbert tells us the top five reasons he loves Rust. Find out why Rust is the next language you should learn in your programming journey.

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Craig Walls @Habuma makes it fun and easy to develop an Alexa skill. In this short article and video tutorial, you’ll be building a simple jokes API using Spring Webflux that will produce a random joke that Alexa can speak to listeners.

Pick up Craig’s book, published by The Pragmatic Bookshelf:

#book-build-talking-apps-for-alexa

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It started in 1968 with Douglas Engelbart and the mother of all demos involving the first-ever computer mouse. Before long, the near-universal embrace of the graphical user interface marked a change in what it meant to be a personal computer.

Ride along on this fictionalized account of the rise of the graphical user interface with author Mike Swaine from the archives of PragPub magazine, January 2019.

Read more such stories in Fire in the Valley:

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Also on Medium today, an In Print announcement for Build a Weather Station with Elixir and Nerves:

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In leadership tip 9, Johanna Rothman advises us to see and stop micromanagement:

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You can find Johanna’s books on The Pragmatic Bookshelf’s website. Don’t forget to use this promo code to save 35%: d e v t a l k . c o m

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Miki Tebeka @tebeka has a Go brain teaser for us today:

See if you can guess the behavior of nil values in the examples.

Miki’s Brain Teaser books include:

Don’t forget, you can use promo code d e v t a l k . c o m to save 35% on any of the Brain Teasers books.

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Thanks to our partnership with Educative, New Programmer’s Survival Manual is now available as an online course.

For those who prefer book format, you can pick up a copy of Josh Carter’s book from The Pragmatic Bookshelf:

I wrote a brief article on Medium announcing Educative’s course version:

#book-new-programmer-s-survival-manual

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Is continuous product improvement a dead-end strategy? Staffan Nöteberg @staffannoteberg thinks so and says that we should look for the unexpected instead. Dive into the unexplored affordances of things in this article:

You’ll find a 35 percent off promo code for his best-selling ebook and audio book, The Pomodoro Technique Illustrated.

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Today on Medium, I talk about the beta release of Agile Web Development with Rails 7 by @rubys from The Pragmatic Bookshelf.

The beta ebook is now for sale on The Pragmatic Bookshelf website. To participate in the beta process by sharing feedback, go to the book’s tag page here on DevTalk: #book-agile-web-development-with-rails-7


Also on Medium today, from the archives of PragPub, Jan 2019, a look back at a book about systems programming in the twenty-first century.

Pick up Fire in the Valley to read more tech-history stories: Fire in the Valley: The Birth and Death of the Personal Computer, Third Edition by Michael Swaine and Paul Freiberger
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Johanna Rothman @jrothman rounds out January on Medium with leadership tip number ten: “Commit Coherent and Meaningful Work to a Team.”

Be sure to have a look at Johanna’s books with The Pragmatic Bookshelf.

You can read Johanna Rothman’s author spotlight right here on DevTalk.


In addition, our Medium newsletter for January goes out today:

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Mike Riley @mriley kicks off February by looking at the best Go configuration management library. Read the article in which he calls Koanf the Goldilocks of Go libraries.

He also gives a nice plug for two Go books from The Pragmatic Bookshelf.

Pick up a copy of Mike’s book, now in beta and soon to be in print, Portable Python Projects:

#book-portable-python-projects

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For Wednesday on Medium, we have a tip for using the at() method in JavaScript to quickly get the last item of an array:

Book by author Faraz Kelhini @Faraz:

#book-modern-asynchronous-javascript

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In this Medium article, Karl Stolley @karlstolley helps you configure Git’s terminal output:

Karl’s book is about WebRTC:

#book-programming-webrtc

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An interesting question from the archives of PragPub magazine: what comes after the personal computer? Perhaps we are entering the era of ambient computing. Michael Swaine @michaelswaine muses about our computer past and future in this article, now on Medium:

Micheal Swaine is the co-author of Fire in the Valley, along with Paul Freiberger:

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We also have a short article on Medium about Mike Riley’s @mriley book, Portable Python Projects, which is now in print:

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Don’t forget, you can use promo code d e v t a l k . c o m for a 35% discount on these PragProg titles.

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