Reading and Learning: Feb. 24, 2015

Tuesday, 24 February, 2015 — learning improvement

For some background on what’s going on here, see the first tool sharpening post

Alright, I let this one go too long. The articles list is incomplete, but to help clear a giant backlog….

Articles and books read

• To Forgive Design, by Henry Petroski
  • I need to write my thinking on this book in more depth, however, if you are looking for recent examples of the importance of understanding failure in engineering, you would do well to start with this book
  • See also this New York Times review of the book
• Just Enough Research, by Erica Hall
  • It’s only fair to point out that I did not read two books in the last few days, I only finished these two books over Christmas vacation
• “The Cameleon”, by Paul Smith
• “JavaScript Equality Table”, by dorey
• “25 More Things I Want To Tell My Daughter”, by Jen Meyers
• “Bash Shell Functions Tutorial with 6 Practical Examples”, by Ramesh Natarajan
• “Hashie Considered Harmful - An Ode to Hash and OpenStruct”, by Schneems
• The Twelve-Factor App, by Adam Wiggins

Screencasts and presentations watched

• Attended Triangle DevOps’ January meeting where organizer Mark Mzyk presented “The Journey of a DevOp”
• Attended Triangle Ember’s February meeting where Jason Draper presented “Why I chose Ember”

Podcasts listed to

• The Bike Shed, Ep. 4: “Put Everything on the Front End”
• The Bike Shed, Ep. 5: “Rails is Not Your Architecture”
• Back to Work Ep. 199: “Merlin’s Best of 2014”
• Ruby Rogues Ep. 184: “What We Actually Know About Software Development and Why We Believe It’s True with Greg Wilson and Andreas Stefik”
• Giant Robots Smashing Into Other Giant Robots Ep. 126: “Log In to Your Space (Zach Dunn)”
• Ruby Rogues Ep. 185: “Rails 4 Test Prescriptions with Noel Rappin”
• Back to Work Ep. 200: “Blitzkriegscheiße”
• Ruby Rogues Ep. 186: “The 4 Rules of Simple Design with Corey Haines”
• Back to Work Ep. 201: “Never Enough Bathrooms”
• Ruby Rogues Ep. 187: “Marketing Yourself as a Software Developer with John Sonmez”
• Back to Work Ep. 202: “FIXME”
• Giant Robots Smashing Into Other Giant Robots Ep. 127: “Merging Worlds (Meng To)”
• Giant Robots Smashing Into Other Giant Robots Ep. 128: “To Attract and Retain (Dan Croak)”
• Ruby Rogues Ep. 188: “Community Building with Pieter Hintjens”
• Accidental Tech Podcast Ep. 98: “Landmines, Pitfalls and Bottomless Pits”
• Back to Work Ep. 203: “I blame the Media”
• Ruby Rogues Ep. 189: “Choosing a JavaScript MVC Framework with Craig McKeachie”
• The Bike Shed, Ep. 6: “Shh! Library Under Maintenance”
• Ruby Rogues Ep. 190: “FIXME: Apprenticeship”
• Back to Work Ep. 205: “Obsolete, circa 1993”
• Giant Robots Smashing Into Other Giant Robots Ep. 129: “The Engineering of Payments (Ian Logan)”
• Back to Work Ep. 206: “Talking to Santa”
• Back to Work Ep. 207: “Vampires in the Wallpaper”
• Back to Work Ep. 208: “Don’t Touch Daddy”
• The Bike Shed, Ep. 7: “At the Car Wash”