Category: software development
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Mockaroo – Random Data Generator and API Mocking Tool | JSON / CSV / SQL / Excel
A free test data generator and API mocking tool – Mockaroo lets you create custom CSV, JSON, SQL, and Excel datasets to test and demo your software. https://www.mockaroo.com As a sys admin or DevOps you are urged rather often by software developers to illegally provide them with data from production environments. The next developer will…
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“Maintainable JavaScript” – having started reading this book I find the JavaScript code in my new office a little more acceptable
http://shop.oreilly.com/product/0636920025245.do https://www.safaribooksonline.com/library/view/maintainable-javascript/9781449328092/ my bookmark: “The with Statement”
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a car and a website – do they have anything in common?
Within the car I have in mind and I came across, its parts communicate using CANopen. The car’s software got mostly implemented in Ada, and once there existed a (home-brewn) software generator Ada code for CANopen message definitions. From the CANopen message definitions the generator created: data structures in Ada marshalling code de-marshalling code There…
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reverse engineering costs so much more time than writing “difficult” code
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reverse_engineering I am facing code, that is really hard to read, and I am attempting to give it a little more structure, so that it is trivial to grasp. But that costs time and grief.
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O’Reilly Media book: Becoming a Better Programmer
http://shop.oreilly.com/product/0636920033929.do Pete Goodliffe, author of Code Craft, presents several lessons that will help you go beyond just being a good coder. You’ll learn how to become a better worker, a better team member, and even a better person. This is a book for people who care about code, who are passionate about the way they…
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Is Text the Programmers Silver Bullet?
Will programming ever depart the land of text? I loved this article on the divides between user and programmer cultures, but sharing it brought responses on the values of programmer culture. Every time I wonder publicly about programming interfaces, or … via http://programming.oreilly.com/2014/01/is-text-the-programmers-silver-bullet.html
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O’Reilly Media book: Agile Data Science
http://shop.oreilly.com/product/0636920025054.do With this hands-on book, you’ll learn a flexible toolset and methodology for building effective analytics applications. Agile Data shows you how to create an environment for exploring data, using lightweight tools such as Ruby, Python, Apache Pig, and the D3.js (Data-Driven Documents) JavaScript library. You’ll learn an iterative approach that allows you to quickly…
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The Pragmatic Bookshelf: Agile Retrospectives: Making Good Teams Great
http://pragprog.com/book/dlret/agile-retrospectives
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book: The Art of Agile Development – O’Reilly Media
The Art of Agile Development – O’Reilly Media