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:
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In this Medium article, Karl Stolley @karlstolley helps you configure Git’s terminal output:
Karl’s book is about 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:
We also have a short article on Medium about Mike Riley’s @mriley book, Portable Python Projects, which is now in print:
#book-portable-python-projects
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Johanna Rothman @jrothman suggests that we forget “empower” and learn “trust” instead to lead agile teams in tip eleven on Medium:
These tips and more can be found in Johanna’s three-book set, Modern Management Made Easy:
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Dmitry Zinoviev @aqsaqal is creating a semantic network of data processing terms—and you can help! Learn how in this Medium article:
Dmitry has four books (and counting) with The Pragmatic Bookshelf:
#book-resourceful-code-reuse
#book-pythonic-programming
#book-complex-network-analysis-in-python
#book-data-science-essentials-in-python
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Here’s a new Python brain teaser from Miki Tebeka @tebeka on Medium:
Miki has three brain teaser books with The Pragmatic Bookshelf.
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The first song “sung” by a computer was the Beatles’ “The Fool on the Hill.”
Michael Swaine @michaelswaine tells us about the moment on Medium:
For more stories, pick up the book:
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On Medium today, from the archives of PragPub magazine, Frances Buontempo @fbuontempo asks “Does Machine Learning Really Involve Data?”
Pick up her book to get some hands-on practice using genetic algorithms:
#book-genetic-algorithms-and-machine-learning-for-programmers
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You’re invited! If you are reading Powerful Command-Line Applications in Go by Ricardo Gerardi @rgerardi join fellow readers in working through the end-of-chapter exercises via a DevTalk book club.
There’s an article on Medium today that tells you about the book and the book club:
If you haven’t picked up the book yet, remember you can use code d e v t a l k . c o m to save 35% on the ebook.
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Today on Medium, author Tony Hammond @tonyhammond tells us about his book, Exploring Graphs in Elixir, now in beta with The Pragmatic Bookshelf:
If you don’t have a copy yet, pick up the ebook here:
As a DevTalk community member, you can save 35% by entering promo code d e v t a l k . c o m at checkout.
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From the archives of PragPub magazine, Feb 2011, Tim Ottinger and Jeff Langr dig into the true nature of abstraction and the role it should play in object-oriented design:
Abstraction: How to Tell a Cat from a Dog
“A well-abstracted design imparts meaning and provides easy navigation. We can deftly navigate the system through its simple abstractions, and push them aside when we need to get to the nitty-gritty implementation details.”
Jeff and Tim are also the authors of Agile in a Flash, from The Pragmatic Bookshelf:
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Once you learn how to use Haskell, you start to realize that it’s an amazingly effective tool for building software. Rebecca Skinner @RebeccaSkinner explains in this article on Medium:
#Haskell
Rebecca Skinner’s book, Effective Haskell: Solving Real-World Problems with Strongly-Typed Functional Programming is now in beta and is available from The Pragmatic Bookshelf:
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On Medium today, an article about the new Haskell book by Rebecca Skinner @RebeccaSkinner :
#Haskell
Also on Medium today, an article announcing that Educative is now offering an online course based on Genetic Algorithms in Elixir by Sean Moriarity @seanmor5 :
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Sean Moriarity @seanmor5 invites you to hone your array programming skills with Elixir’s Nx library in this short quiz-style article on Medium:
#elixir #programming #pragprog #books
Sean’s book, Genetic Algorithms in Elixir, is available from The Pragmatic Bookshelf:
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Today on Medium, Ed Burnette shares his wisdom about retaining employees and the four categories of reasons people leave (or stay):
Ed is the author of Hello, Android (4th Edition) with The Pragmatic Bookshelf:
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From the archives of PragPub magazine, Feb 2014, Antonio Cangiano @antonio
talks books, and mentions the emergence of Raspberry Pi books–a notable point in history.
Antonio is the author of Technical Blogging, Second Edition, available from The Pragmatic Bookshelf:
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Learn some Rust by developing your own word guessing game. Herbert Wolverson @herberticus shares Rustle on Medium. Play as much as you’d like!
Herbert’s books with The Pragmatic Bookshelf:
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Find out what’s new in Go 1.18—like generics and test fuzzing—in this Medium article by @rgerardi :
Ricardo’s book from The Pragmatic Bookshelf:
https://pragprog.com/titles/rggo
Also on Medium today, read about Brian Okken’s @brianokken new edition of his best-selling Python testing book, now in print:
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For the last day of February on Medium, a newsletter summarizing the articles we published this month:
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