August 31st 2010
Testing is one of the basis to create robust and correct code. O’Reilly has published in its “Beautiful” series a lot of books on different parts of the development process. This is the testing part.
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Loading ...August 3rd 2010
When twenty or so langage creators are put together to make a book, it can only be interesting. It’s a good revealer of character, as they tend to open their heart. In fact I think that’s exactly what happened in this book.
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97 pieces of advice, not less, not more. Several dozens of (more or less famed) developers were asked for their opinion on programming good practices, and their answers were compiled in this book.
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(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...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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(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...July 28th 2009
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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(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...April 21st 2009
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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