During “The Mother of All Demos” in 1968 Doug Englebart and his team showed the world the future of human–computer interactions using both real-time video conferencing and interactive editing. Today’s article by Michael Swaine @michaelswaine from the PragPub archives talks about the 50th anniversary of the event, as celebrated by the Computer History Museum.
Mike’s book with Paul Freiberger, Fire in the Valley, offers more amazing tales of tech history:
An excerpt from Lauren Maffeo’s new book, Designing Data Governance from the Ground Up today on Medium:
Get the ebook:
Ken @kenkousen hosts part II of the ebook unboxing for Mockito Made Clear:
Ken’s book:
Read about how Mike Riley optimized his info flow with CLI-based apps using Go and Rust and, at the same time, reduced resource consumption:
Pick up Mike Riley’s @mriley book from The Pragmatic Bookshelf:
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Today on Medium we are celebrating the audio book release of Forge Your Future with Open Source:
Listen to the wisdom of VM (Vicky) Brasseur @vmbrasseur on forging your future with open source:
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Last week we announced the release of the audio book version of Forge Your Future with Open Source. Today, we are sharing an excerpt from the book on the benefits that contributing to an open source project can have for your career:
Listen to the wisdom of VM (Vicky) Brasseur @vmbrasseur on forging your future with open source:
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Today on Medium, an excerpt from Mockito Made Clear by Ken Kousen:
Ken’s @kenkousen book:
The final Mockito ebook “unboxing” video from Ken Kousen @kenkousen:
Ken’s book:
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What if you could eliminate nearly all of the logic involved in making an HTTP request and reduce your HTTP client code significantly? Craig Walls @habuma offers a video about Spring 6 and declarative clients to help you do just that:
Craig’s book:
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Learn how to fine-tune how loudly, quickly, and at what tone Alexa speaks:
Craig Walls’ @habuma book:
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Today on Medium @Erica talks about the revamped UI for Apple Books:
Erica Sadun’s book:
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Today, some fun. A Worduko puzzle with the clue “a term related to disagreements or inputs passed into commands.”
If you enjoy solving puzzles, you may also like Erica Sadun’s @Erica book:
Facing an Agile transformation at work? This article by @staffannoteberg should help:
Staffan’s book:
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Also available as an audio book:
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What about the tech job world has changed in the thirteen plus years since Andy Lester wrote this article for PragPub?
Maybe the approach you’d take to updating your resume—but the much of the advice is still sound. Most of all, “Don’t sweat it.”
Are you facing a job change? Andy’s book could help:
Today we are celebrating the print release of Creating Software with Modern Diagramming Techniques: Build Better Software with Mermaid by Ashley Peacock @ashleypeacock:
Wildly popular while in beta, now is your chance to order the fully finished paper version from your local indie bookstore or through bookshop.org.
If you prefer ebooks, pick up a copy directly through pragprog.com with promo code d e v t a l k . c o m and save 35 percent.
Today on Medium, an excerpt from Creating Software with Modern Diagramming Techniques by
Ashley Peacock:
Order the print version from your local indie bookstore or through bookshop.org.
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Today on Medium, a reading list of PragProg books on software testing:
Create a mock to verify that an algorithm is implemented properly to see how mocks can help you to test Java code:
https://medium.com/pragmatic-programmers/how-mocks-help-d0ce10e3575c
Pick up Ken’s Mockito book:
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A post and video from Craig Walls @habuma about RSocket – a communication protocol that extends the reactive programming model:
Pick up Craig’s book:
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Today, the spotlight is on Lauren Maffeo, author of Designing Data Governance from the Ground Up. Read the interview here on Devtalk:
Be sure to leave a question for Lauren in the ask me anything (AMA) section for a chance to win a copy of her book.
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