This is a plain-text version of Bret Victor’s reading list. It was requested by hf on Hacker News.
Highly recommended things!
This is my five-star list. These are my favorite things in all the world.
A few of these works have had an extraordinary effect on my life or way of thinking. They get a sixth star. ★
FWIW: I didn't produce the content present here. I've just copy-pasted it from somewhere over the Internet, but I cannot remember exactly the original source. I was also not able to find the author's name, so I cannot give him/her the proper credit.
Hudson Taylor (HT) is a library for building software systems with a Service Oriented Architecture. It comprises of server library for providing services with well documented and defined APIs, and a client library for calling services. All service APIs have Schemas that both document expectations as well as validate and pre-process incoming data.
HT can be used within a single process to logically partition services from the beginning. This means that your project has clean internal interfaces and
| // put this as the filter and enable 'regex' | |
| ^((?!extensions::).)*$ |
Ideas are cheap. Make a prototype, sketch a CLI session, draw a wireframe. Discussions around concrete examples, not handy-waving abstractions. Don't say you did something, provide a URL that proves it.
Nothing is real until it's being used by a real user. This doesn't mean you make a prototype in the morning and blog about it in the evening. It means you find one person you believe your product will help and try to get them to use it.
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| # according to http://octopress.org/docs/setup/rvm/ | |
| # !! notice the line about bash and zsh!!! | |
| sudo apt-get install build-essential openssl libreadline6 libreadline6-dev curl git-core zlib1g zlib1g-dev libssl-dev libyaml-dev libsqlite3-dev sqlite3 libxml2-dev libxslt-dev autoconf libc6-dev ncurses-dev automake libtool bison subversion | |
| bash -s stable < <(curl -s https://raw.github.com/wayneeseguin/rvm/master/binscripts/rvm-installer) |
This gist is part of a blog post. Check it out at:
http://jasonrudolph.com/blog/2011/08/09/programming-achievements-how-to-level-up-as-a-developer
