Software Programming Resources

Feel free to share resources you are learning from with me, I am eager to learn of new sources of inspiration and knowledge.

• Interviewing Resources
• an app that makes learning algorithms and data structures way more fun

General Learning

• Grow With Google
• 20 TED Talks on Programming Everyone Must Watch
• Github help

Software & Service Design

1. Microservices
   • Microservice patterns
   • Martin Fowler on Microservices Martin is incredibly smart and an industry leader.
2. 12 factor app
3. The Unix Philosophy

Refactoring

• Mikato Method
  • [book] The Mikato Method
  • [article] DZone
  • Official Blog
  • Github code examples
• [article] overall advice for refactoring
• [book] Working Effectively with Legacy Code
• [book] Refactoring - Improving the Design of Existing Code

Fun & Inspiring

1. The Tao of Programming: Love this.
2. Unix Fu
3. Why’s (Poignant) Guide To Ruby: Love this too.
4. Ruby Rogues Picks

Code / Craftsmanship

1. Software Craftsmanship Manifesto: I often times identify more as a craftsman than I do an engineer.
2. lowlevelprogramming-university
3. Clean Code - A Handbook of Agile Software Craftsmanship
4. Clean Architecture
5. The Pragmatic Programmer
6. The Clean Coder
   • Developer Playbook - A place to organize style guides, best practices, tools, and techniques for Stanford University’s Digital Library Systems & Services Group.

Principles & Process

1. Culture and Organizational Resources
2. Agile Manifesto: It amazes me how many people claim to know “Agile”, but have never actually read this.
3. Principles behind the Agile Manifesto: The often ignored sub-page.
4. Kanban

Pair Programming

Pair programming is one of the most rewarding learning methods I’ve experienced. Because of this, I’ve listed a few pair programming resources below. If you’ve never pair programmed, you should give it a try!

• Pair With Me - An app to connect people with pair programming interests.

Tools for pair programming:

• Cloud9 collaborative IDE
• VIM with TMUX
• Video chat such as Google Hangout, Slack, Hipchat, etc.

Jeff Dickey from Heroku wrote a great article about How to Pair Program. I strongly encourage reading this before pair programming yourself, even if you have plenty of pair programming experience, it’s a very good refresher.

People

• Why The Lucky Stiff: Inspired me to learn Ruby, which launched my early years of software development.
  • Why’s (Poignant) Guide To Ruby
  • Why’s Disappearance
  • Why’s Printer Spool
• Steve Klabnik
• Zach Holman, formerly at Github, lots to share about unconventional culture, inspires me to do what I love.
• Tom Preston-Werner
• Ilya Grigorik: Security and speed
• Ben Orenstein
• Jim Weirich
• James Edward Gray II
• risk danger olson
• Yehuda Katz
• Gary Bernhardt, especially his Destroy All Software Screencasts.
• Avdi Grimm

Companies

1. Netflix tech blog
2. Facebook’s tech blog
3. Amazon dev blog
4. AWS blog
5. Google dev blog
6. Air BnB
7. Heroku Blog
8. Github
   • blog
9. Thoughbot
   • Learn hub
   • Playbook: How Thoughtbot works.
10. OpenSource.com

Podcasts

• Greater Than Code
• Ruby Rogues

My Languages of Interest

• My primary languages are Ruby, Javascript, and Java.
• Wanting to become proficient in functional programming languages like Go, Clojure, and Scala.

Relevance

Three things of importance worth mentioning:

1. Work with technology that you thoroughly enjoy.
2. Use the right tools for the job.
3. Be aware of industry standards and emerging technologies available.

Below are resources to help understand which tech I find most enjoyable, a matrix of tools to help decide what to use for a given use case, and sources to learn about standard and emerging tech.

Enjoyable Tech

• Ruby: The most enjoyable language I’ve had the pleasure of working with.
• Node: Also a refreshingly fun language to build with.
• VIM: High learning curve, but once you setup your dotfiles setup right for your preferences, VIM is very rewarding.

Tools Matrix

TK

Industry Standards & Emergence

• AWS Tools and SDKs is a reasonable list of mainstream languages and frameworks.

Lanugages

Resources to help learn languages:

• Ruby:
  • TryRuby
  • Ruby Koans
• Rust
  • The Rust Programming Language (Book)
  • [blog] “The Expressive C++17 Coding Challenge (in Rust)” Revisited
• More TK

License

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