February 16th 2010
It’s funny I’ve started reading this book shortly before Google announced it withdraws from China because of a cyber attack. Well, this book is about this new theater of operations and explains what everyone should be ready for.
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Free lunch is over, it’s time to go concurrent. The Art of Concurrency addresses the need for a workflow to develop concurrent/parallel applications.
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(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...November 19th 2009
Thre is two ways of getting this book: the electronic one or the paper one. If you plan of using Mercurial, the paper may be better suited.
Mercurial (also called hg as the Mendeleiev symbol for mercurial) is one of the three DVCS (Distributed Version Control System) that are in the mood nowadays. Written in Python, its life started at the time as git’s when BitKepper was dumped as the Linux kernel’s VCS. Now it is a mature product, and the book tries to explain how to use it and also the differences with Git. Bazaar, the third DVCS, is not even mentionned, although it is also written in Python.
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Beautiful Architecture is a kind of follow-up of Beautiful Code, which I reviewed some time ago. Far smaller, the book is aimed at architecture, although Beautiful Code also presented some aspect of architecture.
The question I’ve asked myself whether or not it is as good as its predecessor.
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A network application should be tested for the performance it is meant to have. To do this, tools must be used, results analyzed, … This book is about bringing together experience on this.
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What an appetizing title! This book is part of an O’Reilly serie that treats a lot of interesting topic. Contrary to Beautiful Code, this one is much shorter but the title suggest it is much more pragmatic.
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If last week’s book review was too complicated for you, perhaps this book is more suited for you. Less design patterns, but a funnier way to describe them.
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(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...November 18th 2008
The book description was really appetizing: Machine Learning applied to the Internet, so it should be easy to understand, and Python as the mean to compute. Unfortunately, contrary to what I saw in different reviews, I was not pleased with the book, and here is why.
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I got this book from a partnership between http://www.developpez.com/ and O’Reilly. Thanks to both of them.
What defines “beautiful code”? How do people think a beautiful code should look like? This isn’t a simple question to answer, so this book asked several lead programmers (Ruby, Python, C, C++, Java, Perl, …) some beautiful code they wrote or they encountered. And if some want to answer “think about a robust, simple to extend code and that will be it” (and I would be one of them before I read the book), there are some code that would not fit this profile.
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After some general books on grid computation, I needed to change the subject of my readings a little bit. As Intel Threading Building Blocks always intrigued me, I chose the associated book.
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