New Programmer's Survival Manual: Now For Sale!
Now for sale: my book for programmers entering industry, the New Programmer’s Survival Manual, is available in ebook and paper form. I expect readers of this book to fall into a couple categories: …
Dear Programming Job Applicants...
This article is written with considerable snark–put on your flameproof suit if needed. I’m not actually a jerk when interviewing people, but I do get frustrated when candidates fail to do basic …
Boulder/Denver Ruby Group: MapReduce
Here are slides from my presentation at the Boulder/Denver Ruby Group on “Simple MapReduce with Ruby and Rinda.” This is much of the same material as my article on the topic, but it focuses on the …
Simple MapReduce in Ruby
Here’s a simple version of the MapReduce framework presented in the now-famous Google paper by Dean and Ghemawat. My version of MapReduce is not intended as a usable high-performance framework, but …
Boulder/Denver Ruby Group Presentation
Here are slides from my presentation at the Boulder/Denver Ruby Group last night. It’s Ruby-focused “Lessons Learned” based on the project I’ve been leading this year, the software for Spectra …
Why I'm Not a [Insert Language Here] Programmer
I have over a decade of professional C++ experience, but I don’t call myself a “C++ Programmer.” Am I competent with programming in C++? Yes, very much so. But I refuse to let my skills be …
Boulder-Denver Ruby User's Group
Last night I attended the inaugural meeting of the Boulder-Denver Ruby User’s Group. “Meeting” was a term used in the loose sense–it was more a gaggle of Ruby enthusiasts sitting around tables with …
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