On Ruby

This is a book that I wish was on my son's required reading list.  Not that his code is hard to read (for someone in their first progr...

The Art of R Programming is an approachable guide to the R programming language. While tutorial in nature, it should also serve as a ref...

The system management/administration team that I work on is starting to do more scripting and tool building.  That means bringing a bunch of...

The recent news that GDB now supports D makes The D Programming Language jump up a notch or two on my reading list. I've finished 52...

Thanks to Prentice Hall and Addison-Weseley giving me three new books, my reading list has bulked back up.  Here's what I'm working...

As I talk about leveraging community to be more effective at what you do, let's start out with books. I think this is a good theme to ...

Andy Lester ( @theworkinggeek ) and Chad Fowler ( @chadfowler ) the authors of Land the Tech Job You Love and The Passionate Programmer ,...

JavaOne [h]as a *very* different feel than that of a Ruby show, obviously :P — Leah Silber Really starting to believe that small, short, re...

I've been reading O'Reilly's Beautiful Architecture lately. While I'm not as sold on it as editor Diomidis Spinellis ear...

" Real World Haskell ? Isn't that an oxymoron?" I heard the question asked in one way or another many times as I lugged the ...

Here's the third of three Scala book interviews. Venkat Subramaniam ( @venkat_s ), author of the Prag's Programming Scala , has a...

With the recent release of Ruby in Practice , I've contacted both Assaf Arkin ( @assaf ) and Jeremy Macanally ( @jm ) to do some inte...

A little over a year ago, I picked up a copy of Visualizing Data , and wrote a review of it. About a month ago, I discovered that Matt Bau...

A long time ago, I was an aficionado of a language that told me that the three traits of a great programmer are laziness, impatience, and hu...

In my last post, I alluded to my efforts to read more intentionally and admitted that I chose to jump off of the wagon at nearly the first o...

I recently got my copy of Beautiful Architecture . Following the SQ3R reading pattern I picked up from Pragmatic Thinking and Learning , ...

No Starch Press has put out a number of books that I've really enjoyed ( The Manga Guide to Statistics and Ruby By Example among t...

I had a great opportunity to trade emails with Jan Lehnardt in a second interview about Relax with CouchDB . This time, we touched TDD, r...