kperry
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7 years ago
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on: Top books discussed on Stack Overflow and other Stack Exchange sites
Working Effectively with Legacy Code is the best Software Engineering book I have ever read. Most authors will show you very trivial examples, but Feathers shows detailed examples and an almost formulaic way to make your code testable. You can read and memorize SOLID principles, but he shows you how to _do_ SOLID principles.
kperry
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11 years ago
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on: The first comprehensive book on child-computer interaction (Free download)
This is a free book and the first comprehensive book on child-computer interaction. This is written by my former grad school advisor/mentor. He is the smartest, humblest guy that I know. I am pretty inspired that he compiled and summarized the state of child-computer interaction and is offering it as a FREE book.
kperry
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11 years ago
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on: Introducing Chaos Engineering
Nice! Thanks for sharing man!
kperry
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11 years ago
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on: Introducing Chaos Engineering
Netflix puts out some great articles about architecture in the cloud. Auto-scaling, chaos monkey, and how they handle 'steal-time.' Does anyone know of any other company that publishes so much about cloud architecture? This is great stuff!
kperry
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12 years ago
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on: US physically hacks 100,000 foreign computers
I am with you. Nice job NSA. In fact, this "technology" doesn't really surprise me at all. If an article came out that said, "NSA can't hack a computer unless it is connected to their own private LAN," then I would be pretty disappointed in my tax dollars at work :)
kperry
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12 years ago
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on: Friends don't let friends use Eclipse
I switched a year ago and the usability improvement is substantial. This isn't vim vs. emacs, this is emacs vs. MS Wordpad. Is it perfect, no, but it is so much better than Eclipse. Eclipse is one tool for all jobs which makes the UI very clunky and not very intuitive. Even C++ developers on our team when switching back and forth between Eclipse and Visual Studio (we do cross-platform development) would loath at their time using Eclipse. I used to defend it, but not any more. Sure, maybe this will turn into an Android vs. iPhone debate, but let someone use IntelliJ for 6 months (after having experience with Eclipse) and tell me how many people want to switch back.
