Latest Posts
- Ongoing New Quotes / Articles
- Crafting Interpreters – Nystrom
- Traction – Weinberg and Mares – Book
- Company Contractor Cash Flow Diagram
- The Continuing Transformation of the Tech Industry
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 – Traction – How any startup can achieve explosive customer growth
- 8/10 – Trillion Dollar Coach – Bill Campbell
- 6/10 – The Unicorn Project (2020)
- 6/10 – SRE – Software Reliability Engineering
- 8/10 – Accelerate -The Science of Lean Software and Devops
- 10/10 – Andrew Grove – High Output Management
- US Political Books
- The Five Dysfunctions of a Team
- The Checklist – Atul Gawande
- Software Skills – The Software Developers Life Manual
- Peopleware: Productive Projects and Teams
- 9/10 – The Phoenix Project
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
Ongoing New Quotes / Articles
I have an old page: legendary quotes. As I gather new ones, I will add new ideas here and prune them over time: “Just recently I came to a realization, people and organisations exist in a competency / incompetency matrix. The competent orgs with incompetent people are your blue chips and “traditional” companies. They ship…
Crafting Interpreters – Nystrom
I have read this book, went through the exercises and went back to reference this book a number of times. It’s 10/10 excellent but I confess I almost forgot to write a review as I mostly read it online and only bought the (heavy book. See pic) to make sure the author got paid for…
Traction – Weinberg and Mares – Book
Traction – How any startup can achieve explosive customer growth Overall: 9/10 I orginally purchased this book in July 2016 and I’ve returned to it throughout the year to re-read sections and twice to re-read it fully. Contains a simple approach that forces developers like me that typically prefer development to sales to a) Realise…
Ryan Hamilton 