swlaschin

Some recommended books for improving as a software developer

Most software books are too language specific and go out of date too quickly. What I find has stayed with me are books about bigger concepts, such as systems thinking and complexity, and also so-called "soft skills" such as management and psychology.

User experience

These are all really about developing empathy for other people :)

• "The Design of Everyday Things" by Donald Norman

adymitruk

     #set up the dir structure if it doesn't exist
     set t ~/.trello; mkdir -p $t
     function if_exist # we don't want to litter our code with ifs if a read model or events are not there yet. Return /dev/nul for empty
         if test -e $t/$argv[1]; echo $t/$argv[1]; else; echo /dev/null; end
     end
     function list # provide lists from our tab delimited entries with filtering and line item numbers to make choices
         set list $argv[1]; set column_to_show $argv[2]; set filter $argv[3]; set count 1
         cat (if_exist $list) | grep -e "$filter\$" | while read line
             set -l line_items (string split \t $line)
             echo $count\) $line_items[$column_to_show]

seancribbs

require 'bundler/setup'
require 'roar/representer/json'
require 'roar/representer/feature/hypermedia'
require 'webmachine'

class Product
  include Roar::Representer::JSON
  include Roar::Representer::Feature::Hypermedia
  
  property :name