Content tagged with "programming"

Bitwise: A Life in Code
Deane’s Library
Book Review
January 5, 2019
270

“The book is weird. It’s not about ‘code,’ really. It’s about human representation in code. It’s really about how humans relate to code, and about how humans are represented as code. Two chapters in the middle are representative, and neither have anything to do with code – One discussed the…”

Building Evolutionary Architectures: Support Constant Change
Deane’s Library
Book Review
November 9, 2018
42

“ A complicated book about how to architect systems that grow and change over time. Lots of detail, very theoretical, and sometimes hard to digest. ”

Building Microservices: Designing Fine-Grained Systems
Deane’s Library
Book Review
November 11, 2016
17
C# 9 and .NET 5: Modern Cross-Platform Development: Build intelligent apps, websites, and services with Blazor, ASP.NET Core, and Entity Framework Core using Visual Studio Code
Deane’s Library
Book Review
November 24, 2020
174

“I’ve been coding C# for more than a decade, but I still found so much in here that I missed over the years. Lots of these things were basic language features that I was just working around, in complete ignorance. Other things were changes in the platform over the years. Fact is, we get stuck in…”

CSS Master
Deane’s Library
Book Review
May 17, 2019
116

“The book was a bit scattered, though I’m not sure what I expected. I was looking for a book on CSS best practices, and there is some of that in here, but there’s also a re-hash of a lot of non-secret CSS stuff. Like, there’s a whole chapters on transforms and another on transitions, which isn’t…”

CSS and Documents
Deane’s Library
Book
8
CSS: The Definitive Guide
Deane’s Library
Book Review
May 14, 2019
102

“An absolutely magisterial work that explores every last corner of the CSS spec. The advancements that have come along since I learned CSS are amazing – you can almost write executable code in CSS now. This book explores every edge case, no matter absurd, to probe every last corner of the spec. I…”

Code Complete
Deane’s Library
Book
6
Domain-Driven Design: Tackling Complexity in the Heart of Software
Deane’s Library
Book Review
November 27, 2016
23
Drupal for Designers
Deane’s Library
Book Review
June 27, 2014
17
Drupal for Humanists
Deane’s Library
Book Review
April 10, 2017
86

“Good book for what it is. If you know Drupal, you’ll be bored. But if you have no idea what a CMS is, this is a good overview. There is zero code. This is all ‘Drupal by configuration,’ which is a school of thought which may or may not appeal to you. Gets bogged down in individual module…”

EPUB 3 Best Practices
Deane’s Library
Book Review
December 4, 2016
17
Getting Started With Ghost
Deane’s Library
Book Review
November 20, 2015
286

“I’m rating this five stars because it accomplished everything it set out to do, but books like this really defy rating. This is a procedural book. You’re meant to have this open while you do stuff. There’s not a lot of words – it’s largely screencaps and code listings. Books like this also become…”

Git for Humans
Deane’s Library
Book Review
May 25, 2016
191

“this book prompted me to re-acquaint myself with a word: ‘grok.’ To grok something is to understand it intuitively, down to its bones. The term comes from a Robert Heinlein book, it turns out. ‘Git for Humans’ took me a step closer to grokking Git. Lots of tutorial books are of the ‘insert tab A…”

Hypermedia Systems
Deane’s Library
Book Review
November 2, 2023
313

“I’ve used HTMX for a number of years (I currently use it on the very website this review was posted to). As such, this book is preaching to the choir quite a bit. Like a lot of situations with technology, the book exists on two levels: To evangelize the use of HTML (‘hypermedia’) to build…”

Instant Node Package Manager
Deane’s Library
Book Review
May 11, 2018
43

“ Very short, solid book that delivers exactly what it claims. It covers npm well, concisely, and to-the-point. I learned a lot without a ton of overhead. ”

Java Pocket Guide: Instant Help for Java Programmers
Deane’s Library
Book Review
February 16, 2018
92

“Exactly what the title says – it’s a very short, concise guide to the Java language. It’s especially helpful for developers of other languages who want to see how things are done in Java. I read it over the course of a day – kept it in my back pocket while I walked around the Mall of America. I’d…”

Learning Node: Moving to the Server-Side
Deane’s Library
Book Review
May 19, 2018
19
Learning React: Functional Web Development with React and Redux
Deane’s Library
Book Review
May 3, 2018
86

“This is a solid overview of React. Good examples, but like most coding books, they get long. Also, ‘React’ isn’t just one thing – it’s an entire stack of technologies that work together, and this book seems to cover them all. Well-written, clear. (I find technical books hard to assign star ratings…”

Linked Data
Deane’s Library
Book Review
December 3, 2017
87

“This is a comprehensive and primer review of RDF. I don’t know if ‘linked data’ is a specific term, but in this book, it’s RDF, and not just ‘casual’ RDF. It’s not just embedded metadata – this is a hardcore look at creating what are essentially distributed databases based on RDF data. Not for the…”

Node.js Design Patterns
Deane’s Library
Book Review
July 6, 2018
33

“ Very low level. Really opens your eyes as to the things you can do with Node. ”

Node.js in Action
Deane’s Library
Book Review
May 19, 2018
17
Nuget 2 Essentials
Deane’s Library
Book
8
Programmer’s Guide to Drupal
Deane’s Library
Book Review
July 11, 2014
64

“ If you’re a developer and you just never ‘got’ Drupal, this is your book. If this book succeeds at one thing, it’s to change your mindset about Drupal – to understand the different paradigms you need to adopt to work with it. Highly recommended in that sense. ”

Refactoring: Improving the Design of Existing Code
Deane’s Library
Book Review
December 10, 2020
272

“This is one of the great books of computer science. As the title would imply, it’s about fixing the internals of computer programs, without changing how the program functions from the ‘outside.’ This is a time-honored task in computer science – programs get all twisted and crufty over time as…”

The DevOps Handbook: How to Create World-Class Agility, Reliability, and Security in Technology Organizations
Deane’s Library
Book Review
November 25, 2018
136

“A very complete look at all the steps necessary to manage devops in a software shop. Some of it was lost on me, because it’s exactly what it purported to be: a comprehensive review of everything you might do to manage the process of releasing and supporting software. Of interest was some emphasis…”

The Imposter’s Handbook
Deane’s Library
Book Review
March 19, 2018
115

“A good look at all the skills you should know but don’t if you’re a programmer without a CS degree. My degree was in Political Science (I was going to go to law school), and I’m a self-taught developer. This book covered a lot of things I sort of knew but had never really studied (especially data…”

The Way of the Web Tester: Reduce Bugs, Increase Quality, Have Fun
Deane’s Library
Book Review
October 3, 2018
69

“ This wasn’t for me. I missed the word ‘beginner’ in the subtitle. There are chapters explaining the basics of HTTP. And of programming in general. Also, it’s full of cutesy drawings and…stuff. This is good book for the right audience. I just wasn’t it. ”

Using SQLite
Deane’s Library
Book
6
What is Node?
Deane’s Library
Book
9
Working with MediaWiki
Deane’s Library
Book Review
August 18, 2018
72

“ Really wonderful book that covers all the high points. It delves as deep as it needs to, and invites you to explore things that interest you more, which is the hallmark of a good technical book. If you know nothing, this gives you a nice base, and a roadmap for where to go from here. ”

You Don’t Know JS: this & Object Prototypes
Deane’s Library
Book Review
May 28, 2019
76

“Deeply opinionated book that is violently opposed to the use of JS as an object-oriented language. It’s well-written, and has clear information and code samples, but the author is pushing an agenda which gets a little tiresome. I felt like I had to decide: do I believe the entire design team behind…”

jQuery Cookbook: Solutions & Examples for jQuery Developers
Deane’s Library
Book Review
July 6, 2015
73

“I started reading this all the way through, but – like most ‘Cookbook’ titles – it gets increasingly esoteric later on. Still, a very good book which helps you get a grasp on jQuery through considerable examples. Many examples are incredibly basic, which means the books functions well as an…”