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Dipping into C

Posted on December 3, 2010 by Sharon Cichelli

I decided on Monday that I should learn C. Cultivate a nodding acquaintance, at any rate. Louis is always prodding me to become a better craftsman, to become more proficient with my tools. So I figured I should understand my … Continue reading →

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Book Reviews – Release It! and RESTful Web Services Cookbook

Posted on May 26, 2010 by Colin Jack

I’ve recently been doing a lot more reading and wanted to recommend two excellent books. First is Release It!, put simply I think every developer should read it as it’s full of good patterns/advice/anti-patterns related to ensuring your software behaves … Continue reading →

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Interface-Oriented Design – Book Review

Posted on January 17, 2010 by Sharon Cichelli

Ken Pugh’s Interface-Oriented Design (Pragmatic Programmers) presents an approach to designing applications that focuses first on the interfaces, the places where pieces of the application interact. The interfaces here are not primarily user interfaces, but module-to-module interfaces and service interfaces, … Continue reading →

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Review of "Agile Coaching" by PragProg press

Posted on January 7, 2010 by Jason Meridth

Cross-posted from my github pages blog.  Rachel Davies, one of the author’s was kind enough to comment there. My manager let me borrow his copy of Pragmatic Programmer’s Agile Coaching. I’ve read a good number of Agile process and management … Continue reading →

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Chris’ Year in Review 2009

Posted on December 22, 2009 by Chris Missal

Last year on this day, I wrote a review of 2008 and some goals for 2009. I had not yet started blogging for Los Techies yet, but that started at the beginning of the year. Looking back on those goals, … Continue reading →

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Pragmatic Thinking and Learning – A Review

Posted on December 10, 2009 by Gregory Long

So, back in August (or was it September?) the members of Los Techies were offered a sweet deal from The Pragmatic Programmers – pick any book (free), read it, and write a review.  There were no strings attached so we … Continue reading →

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RESTful Web Services Cookbook – Review of Rough Cut

Posted on September 22, 2009 by Colin Jack

I’ve just finished reading the rough cut of RESTful Web Services Cookbook by Subbu Allamaraju and Mike Amundsen and thought I’d write a very quick review. Ultimately the book fills a gap in the market by providing practical advice on … Continue reading →

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Book Review – SOA Patterns (First 5 Chapters)

Posted on May 24, 2009 by Colin Jack

I’ll cut straight to the chase, I definitely recommend SOA Patterns to anyone interested in SOA. Even though its currently only available in MEAP, and is a bit rough and ready, and isn’t complete, it’s still great stuff and well … Continue reading →

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Book Review – RESTful .NET

Posted on May 10, 2009 by Colin Jack

Since we are using REST on top of WCF on my current project I was glad to see that this book had been written as I was hoping it would answer some questions I had. However my first issue with … Continue reading →

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Deploying .NET Applications – Learning MSBuild and ClickOnce

Posted on March 13, 2009 by Mo Khan

I recently finished reading… Deploying .NET Applications: Learning MSBuild and ClickOnce (Expert’s Voice in .Net) I was interested in this book mainly to find an easier way to deploy ClickOnce applications via an automated build. Most of my build automation … Continue reading →

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