Oct 31

What’s so special about Beginning Scala by Dave Pollack?

Beginning Scala is a fairly recently published introductory Scala book (2009). It has made learning about coding and design with Scala thus far a pleasure. While I’ve been aware of Scala for a few months now (when I started web programming), I’ve been very busy with high priority task juggling and hadn’t made time to experience the language (or read the book). My first memory of Scala is hearing about how twitter switched over much of their Ruby on Rails to a Scala framework to improve performance. Since then I’ve sampled 14 million other web technologies ;) . Continue reading »

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Oct 12

Ignore Everybody

Hugh Macleod gathered his manifesto How to be Creative, and weaved together his creative insights on how best to develop our genuine creativity in Ignore Everybody.

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Apr 24
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I’m two chapters in and loving it so far.  Thanks to Jonathan for taking the time and effort to organize his thoughts and develop a cogent and effective strategy to Reclaim our Dreams. Continue reading »

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