PragProg’s Medium Posts

Today on Medium, an excerpt from Fire In The Valley by Michael Swaine and Paul Freiberger:

Pick up the book or audio book:

Fire in the Valley

Fire in the Valley (audio book)

#book-fire-in-the-valley

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Today on Medium, an excerpt from Competing with Unicorns by Jonathan Rasmusson:

Pick up the book:

#book-competing-with-unicorns

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Today on Medium, wisdom from James Stanier @jstanier on how to handle a change of managers:

Pick up James Stanier’s books for more sage advice:

Effective Remote Work (audio book)

Effective Remote Work

Become an Effective Software Engineering Manager

#book-become-an-effective-software-engineering-manager
#book-effective-remote-work

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As a positive launch to the new year, here is an article about collaboration between open source projects by Ben Cotton @bcotton:

Pick up Ben’s book from The Pragmatic Bookshelf:

You can save 35% on Ben’s ebook from The Pragmatic Bookshelf with promo code d e v t a l k . c o m :

#opensource #programming #books #book-program-management-for-open-source-projects

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Today’s Medium article is a word-based Sudoku puzzle from the PragPub archives wishing you a Happy New Year:

If you like puzzles, pick up Erica Sadun’s @Erica book:

#book-numerical-brain-teasers

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Today on Medium, a numerical puzzle to solve from Numerical Brain Teasers:

The puzzle is an excerpt from Erica Sadun’s @Erica book:

Use promo code d e v t a l k . c o m at checkout to save 35% on the ebook.

#book-numerical-brain-teasers

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Mike Riley @mriley has some predictions for 2023:

See if you agree with the things he thinks will happen.

Mike’s book:

#book-portable-python-projects
#python

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Numerical Brain Teasers is now out of beta and in print—today’s Medium topic:

Want to try before you buy? Here’s a puzzle from the book:

Erica Sadun’s @Erica book:

Use promo code d e v t a l k . c o m at checkout to save 35% on the ebook.

#book-numerical-brain-teasers

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Today on Medium, a puzzle and a newsletter:

I’d also like to share the latest venture from @michaelswaine:

Related books: #book-fire-in-the-valley and #book-numerical-brain-teasers

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Today on Medium, a plug for hardcopy books and where to get them:

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Check out the latest article from Staffan Nöteberg @staffannoteberg:

It’s always interesting (to me) to read about what has inspired people.

Staffan’s book:

#book-pomodoro-technique-illustrated

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Today on Medium, Craig Walls @habuma shares a video that details a new feature in Spring 6: Problem Details. Learn how to communicate problem details for HTTP APIs:

His demo API is a fun one for sports fans.

Pick up Craig Walls’ book from The Pragmatic Bookshelf:

#book-building-talking-apps-for-alexa

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Curious what it is like to write a technical book? Ashley Peacock @ashleypeacock shares his experience:

Ashley’s book:

#book-creating-software-with-modern-diagramming-techniques

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Continuing his series on Git-Config, today Karl Stolley @karlstolley talks about how to customize the view of a repository’s present state:

Karl’s book:

#book-programming-webrtc

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Data Science resources from The Pragmatic Programmers:

(friend link)

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Worduko puzzle for programmers:

Have fun!

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Today on Medium, we are celebrating the fact that Lauren Maffeo’s
@lmaffeo book is now out of beta and in print:

#book-designing-data-governance-from-the-ground-up

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Find people with the right skills inside your org to deliver what you need. Bite-sized wisdom from 101 Ingredients to Solve Big Tech Problems by Eewei Chen:

Eewei’s book is unique, full of practical advice, and has cool illustrations by Robert Andre:

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

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Run and debug your Alexa skill code on your development machine, eliminating the need to frequently deploy your skill’s code before trying it out:

Learn more via Craig Wall’s @habuma book:

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

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Today is unboxing (final release) day for Mockito Made Clear! Only, there is no print component, so what to do? Just for fun, Ken @kenkousen decided to create an outrageously complex ebook unboxing process (and will be making a video of it). Part one of the unboxing project:

The book:

#book-mockito-made-clear

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