Ken Kousen @kenkousen talks about usingExecutor, Supplier, and ThrowingSupplier in JUnit tests today on Medium.
Ken’s books with PragProg:
Coincidentally, Ken’s weekly newsletter, Tales from the jarside, includes a video that uses a crime scene investigation theme, just in time for the (unrelated) release of the second edition of Your Code as a Crime Scene by Adam Tornhill.
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Any other Hugh Howey fans on DevTalk? With the airing of Silo, his adaptation of Wool for Apple TV, I have found a couple of PragProg authors who follow Hugh’s work. In season one of Silo, the team in Mechanical goes through the process of fixing the generator that keeps their entire world running. Author Andy Lester @petdance talks about the generator repair and what it teaches us about how not to do an upgrade.
If you are job hunting this summer, pick up Andy’s book with PragProg:
Being a member of DevTalk, you can save 50 percent on Andy’s ebook with promo code d e v t a l k. c o m at checkout.
Celebrating the beta release of the Python-specific version of Jay Wengrow’s @jaywengrow Data Structures and Algorithms book:
Now in Beta: A Common-Sense Guide to Data Structures and Algorithms
Mike Riley @mriley talks about three more trending technologies today on Medium.
Mike’s book:
Today on Medium, Uberto Barbini’s tutorial on functional library design (part 1 of 2).
Uberto’s book with PragProg:
Today on Medium take a fun tech-history quiz from the PragPub archives.
#pragprog #computing-history #book-fire-in-the-valley
Enjoy tech history? Use your 35 percent discount (code d e v t a l k . c o m) to pick up Fire in the Valley by Michael Swaine and Paul Freiberger:
Today on Medium, we are celebrating the beta release of Ruby on Rails Background Jobs with Sidekiq by David Bryant Copeland @davetron5000.
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Curious about David Bryant Copeland’s @davetron5000 new Sidekiq book? Read this excerpt on handling permanent failures via monitoring.
Pick up the book, now in beta:
Ruby on Rails Background Jobs with Sidekiq: Run Code Later without Complicating Your App by David Bryant Copeland for just $6.50 with your exclusive promo code: d e v t a l k . c o m
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Today on Medium, Miki Tebeka @miki reflects on what rock climbing has taught him about programming.
Miki’s books:
Pandas Brain Teasers
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Today on Medium, part II of “Designing a Functional Library” by Uberto Barbini @uberto.
Uberto’s book:
Spotlight on author Leemay Nassery:
Pick up her A/B Testing book:
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Two articles about Sean Moriarity’s new book, Machine Learning in Elixir:
Use promo code d e v t a l k . c o m to save 35 percent on the ebook.
Be sure to share feedback during the beta period here on devtalk: book-machine-learning-in-elixir and tag @seanmor5 in your post so he gets notified.
Today on Medium, Ricardo Gerardi @rgerardi shows us how to use fzf, the Linux fuzzy finder tool:
Ricardo’s book:
Powerful Command-Line Applications in Go: Build Fast and Maintainable Tools by Ricardo Gerardi
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Today on Medium, challenge yourself with a Wordoku puzzle.
If you like puzzles, pick up Erica Sadun’s @Erica book:
From the PragPub archives, @Andy explores how your generation shapes your thinking:
All Your Context: You Are a Product of Your Times
Andy’s books with PragProg:
Pragmatic Thinking and Learning
The Pragmatic Programmer, 20th Anniversary Edition
Practices of an Agile Developer
Pragmatic Version Control using CVS
Pragmatic Unit Testing in Java 8 with JUnit
Programming Ruby 1.9 & 2.0 (4th edition)
Pragmatic Unit Testing in C# with NUnit (2nd edition)
Celebrating the beta release of Agile Retrospectives, Second Edition by Esther Derby, Diana Larsen, and David Horowitz:
To purchase:
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Catch up on what The Pragmatic Programmers published on Medium in July.
Today on Medium, Miley Riley talks about using Grafana OnCall to alert him about temperature extremes to protect home devices.
Mike’s book:
Today on Medium, we are celebrating the fact that Effective Haskell is now out of beta (fully released):
Congrats to author Rebecca Skinner @RebeccaSkinner !
Pick up the print version at bookshop.org to support a local bookstore.
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Announcing a live Q&A session on Sat, August 12 at 11 AM ET with authors from The Pragmatic Bookshelf.
