Latest Posts
- Book Review: Taxtopia
- Book Review: Philosophy of Software Design – Ousterhout
- New Sql Documentation Website
- Hibernate sucks but what’s the alternatives? Java Persistance Options
- Podcast Notes
Programming Projects
- Pulse – SQL real-time visualization tools
- qStudio – an IDE for kdb+
- sqlDashboards – SQL java-based real-time visualization tools
- Jpad – Instantly write java snippets and see nicely formatted results.
- kdb Libraries – Including qunit.
- jq – Open source implementation of q (github).
Books
- 9/10 – Book Review: Taxtopia (2024)
- 8/10 – Book Review: Philosophy of Software Design – Ousterhout (2024)
- 10/10 – Crafting Interpreters – Nystrom (2022)
- 9/10 – Traction – How any startup can achieve explosive customer growth (2022)
- 8/10 – Trillion Dollar Coach – Bill Campbell (2020)
- 6/10 – The Unicorn Project (2020)
- 6/10 – SRE – Software Reliability Engineering (2019)
- 8/10 – Accelerate -The Science of Lean Software and Devops (2019)
- 10/10 – Andrew Grove – High Output Management (2019)
- US Political Books (2019)
- The Five Dysfunctions of a Team (2018)
- The Checklist – Atul Gawande (2018)
- Software Skills – The Software Developers Life Manual (2017)
- Peopleware: Productive Projects and Teams (2017)
- 9/10 – The Phoenix Project (2017)
Old
- Quotes that float in my Mind
- Java scratchpad / Snippet Runner
- Julia Programming Language
- Best Method of Creating Windows Installer for Java Programs.
- Setup java speech jsapi using FreeTTS
Book Review: Taxtopia
9/10 – Great book that ties together many news stories you will have read about over the years.
Book Review: Philosophy of Software Design – Ousterhout
Overall: 8/10 I can recommend a Philosophy of Software Design Paperback by John Ousterhout. I’ve been programming for 15 years and it closely parallels my own current beliefs about programming. He stands above the lower aspects of programming/code/modules, raising the discussion to a conceptual level, that you seem to be wanting. If I had read…
New Sql Documentation Website
I’ve decided to create a new SQL documentation website for H2: sqldock.com/h2 Why? Hopefully others find it useful. Let me know what you think.