Rust and Go are catapulting productivity and performance, while handling security concerns more effectively. Mike Riley @mriley suggests that if you want to stay ahead of the curve in programming, it’s time to start learning these languages. Read more:
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Read about the books that are part of week six of PragProg’s Spring Sale. Save 50 percent at checkout with promo code TOOLS2023 for a limited time.
There are multiple ways to approach testing a service. Sometimes the first solution you try works just fine and makes sense–until you find a more elegant solution. Author Ken Kousen shares his adventure testing a service using Mockito:
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Is it time to start A/B testing? Author Leemay Nassery @leemay helps you decide:
Leemay’s book:
Celebrating Agile Web Development with Rails 7 by Sam Ruby, now out of beta and in print:
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Today on Medium, excerpts from two books that are part of week six of PragProg’s Spring Sale:
Small, Sharp Software Tools by Brian P. Hogan @bphogan:
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Practical Vim 2e by Drew Neil:
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Powerful Command-Line Applications in Go by @rgerardi is 50% off with Spring Sale code TOOLS2023 through midnight ET tonight.
Here’s an excerpt:
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Get a glimpse into what was going on 10 years ago in AI in this article by Mike Swaine from the PragPub archives:
Choice Bits: Hot Books and The Talk of the Tech
Mike’s book:
Today on Medium, we are celebrating Sophie DeBenedetto.
https://medium.com/pragmatic-programmers/author-spotlight-sophie-debenedetto-2d943de3ce36
You can read an interview with the author here on DevTalk:
Be sure to ask her a question in the “ask me anything” section following the interview for a chance to win a copy of Programming Phoenix LiveView: Programming Phoenix LiveView: Interactive Elixir Web Programming Without Writing Any JavaScript by Bruce A. Tate and Sophie DeBenedetto
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An excerpt from Python Testing with pytest by Brian Okken:
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50 percent off all books that were part of PragProg’s Spring Sale with code SPRING2023 thru midnight June 1st (ET).
Here’s the book list.
Learn about using a delay when verifying a method call on a mock In Mockito.
Ken’s @kenkousen Mockito Made Clear ebook is available at half price for a few more days with code SPRING2023:
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Celebrating Practical A/B Testing by Leemay Nassery, now in print:
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Leemay Nassery @leemay talks about the benefits of A/B Testing:
https://medium.com/pragmatic-programmers/illustrating-the-benefits-of-a-b-testing-19485231f53b
Her book is now out of beta and in print:
Did you know that Aristotle believed that zero was not a number? Mark Chu-Cargives us a “zero” history lesson:
https://medium.com/pragmatic-programmers/the-history-of-zero-b47b2dc0364e
Pick up his book at 50% off with code SPRING2023 through midnight ET on June 1, 2023 and fall in love with math:
Are you planning to take a technical certification exam? Ricardo Gerardi @rgerardi has some tips:
https://medium.com/pragmatic-programmers/five-tips-for-technical-certification-exams-9fee6fb24cdd
Ricardo’s book:
Catch up on articles from The Pragmatic Programmers with our May Medium newsletter:
https://medium.com/pragmatic-programmers/may-in-review-d125814d71e9
Stephen Bussey @sb8244 wrote the book he wished he had when moving from Ruby to Elixir. Today we are celebrating the beta release!
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Explore some Elixir processes with Stephen Bussey in this excerpt from his new book, From Ruby to Elixir (now in beta).
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