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Pragmatic Thinking and Learning Book Review

Dobbs Codetalk readers may already know of my fascination with the brain and its relationship to the application development process.  Long-time readers also know that I have been disappointed in previous attempts by technology book companies to publish meaningful titles on the subject.  Has Andy Hunt's Pragmatic Thinking and Learning: Refactor Your Wetware alleviated that condition?  Read on to find out.
- Design

Practical Django Projects Book Review

With the Django 1.0 milestone having recently hit, Django-fever is spreading as is indicative by the number of Django-related books showing up on bookstore shelves.  One of these is James Bennett's Practical Django Projects, published by Apress.  Read on for my review.

The Productive Programmer Book Review

Like many of my fellow DCT Gurus, I have been writing software for many years and have learned some valuable lessons along the way.  Fortunately technologists like Neal Ford, author of The Productive Programmer published by O'Reilly, have captured a great deal of sage advice for fellow programmers seeking additional enlightenment about their craft.  Read on to learn how Neal's book compares to previous programming productivity books.
- JVM Languages

Learning the vi and Vim Editors Book Review

vi was the first text editing program I learned to use on the Unix platform and that initial exposure has kept me an ardent user of the application and its more powerful descendant, Vim, for years.  I read this book searching for insights I had yet to discover on my own as well as evaluate the book's success in conveying the power of these applications to the uninitiated.  Read on to discover if the book met my expectations.

Intellectual Property and Open Source Book Review

I had the pleasure of interviewing software engineer turned practicing attorney Van Lindberg at this year's PyCon 2008 in Chicago, where he also presented a keynote on the subject of intellectual property (IP) and its relationship to software development.  The topics he covered in those talks as well as an in-depth examination of how IP, the law and open source can beneficially co-exist are nicely covered in Intellectual Property and Open Source, Van's new O'Reilly-published book. - Open Source

Envycasts Advanced ActiveRecord Review

DCT readers of my posts know how interested I am in the power of vidcasts, especially ones that fully engage the viewer. I recently received an invitation from Gregg Pollack of Envycasts, to check out their new Advanced ActiveRecord vidcast.  And the verdict is...
- Web Development

Hardware Mash-ups and Bug Lab's Bug

A Java-programmable electronic base with various I/O ports - Open Source

2008 International Mathematica Conference

Dr. Dobb's interviews Wolfram Research's Theo Gray, co-founder and Director of User Interfaces, and Roger Germundsson, Director of Research and Development, about the upcoming 2008 International Mathematica Conference. - Design

Scripting GUI Testing with Ruby Book Review

After listening to a Pragmatic Podcast featuring the book's author, Ian Dees, I had high expectations to learn from his experiences.
- .NET

Roll Your Own Hardware, or Dr. Dobb's Does Bug Labs

A few months ago, I had the pleasure of interviewing Peter Semmelhack, the CEO and founder of Bug Labs. I said at the time -- and still believe -- that Bug Labs is a very interesting company. Its mission is to help engineers tap their creativity and build any type of device they want -- without having to solder or learn solid state electronics. And to apply the term "mashups" to hardware as well as software.

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