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Mind Like a Sword: March 2009
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Mind Like a Sword. Like a sword, keep your mind bright and sharp. And remember, it's always good to have a point. Tuesday, March 31, 2009. Burk on Books - Practical API Design. Practical API Design: Confessions of a Java Framework Architect. Published by: Apress on July, 2008. If you write code then you are designing APIs and this book is for you. The information in this book is relevant to every developer, though I will admit that some probably need it more than others. If you write code, you’...8221; w...
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Mind Like a Sword: February 2009
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Mind Like a Sword. Like a sword, keep your mind bright and sharp. And remember, it's always good to have a point. Tuesday, February 24, 2009. Burk In Books: 97 Things Every Software Architect Should Know. There's a new book available from O'Reilly titled " 97 Things Every Software Architect Should Know: Collective Wisdom from the Experts. Web site. O'Reilly also has a preview. The whole process of trying to come up with useful bits of information and explain them in an interesting way - before somebody e...
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Mind Like a Sword: October 2008
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Mind Like a Sword. Like a sword, keep your mind bright and sharp. And remember, it's always good to have a point. Wednesday, October 29, 2008. A Weekend full of Learning. Where do you find people who willingly spend their entire weekend learning about things like Java class loaders, Groovy, Java Server Faces, Google Web Toolkit, Test Driven Development, Alternative languages for the JVM, and other similar topics? Weren’t enough (Is it ever? If you’ve never heard of No Fluff Just Stuff then you̵...
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Mind Like a Sword: October 2009
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Mind Like a Sword. Like a sword, keep your mind bright and sharp. And remember, it's always good to have a point. Friday, October 23, 2009. Burk on Books - Groovy Recipes by Scott Davis. Almost a year ago I read "Groovy Recipes" and posted my review on DZone. In early November. I also wrote up a posting for this blog but it never got published. The good news is that the book is still relevant and worth picking up if you're interested in getting things done in Groovy. Links to this post. Essential JavaFX ...
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Mind Like a Sword: November 2009
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Mind Like a Sword. Like a sword, keep your mind bright and sharp. And remember, it's always good to have a point. Wednesday, November 4, 2009. Questions and Answers: O'Reilly's got both. As of today there's a new place to go when you have questions (or answers) about pretty much anything you think is interesting. With the tag line "Clever Hacks, Creative Ideas, Innovative Solutions", answers.oreilly.com. Has set an expectation that this is the. So if you've got a tough question, know the answer to tough ...
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Mind Like a Sword: Burk on Books: Growing Object-Oriented Software, Guided by Tests
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Mind Like a Sword. Like a sword, keep your mind bright and sharp. And remember, it's always good to have a point. Monday, February 27, 2012. Burk on Books: Growing Object-Oriented Software, Guided by Tests. Note to those who care: ‘Grok’ is a real word now, it’s in the Oxford English Dictionary, though I prefer the definition in Merriam Webster’s. According to the authors, “ Growing Object-Oriented Software, Guided by Tests. The authors expand upon the traditional approach to TDD by adding acceptance tes...
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Sculpting Code: November 2009
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Friday, November 27, 2009. SaaC - Software as a Craft. Software as a Service ( SaaS. Seems to be the way a lot of the world is moving. Cloud computing is another buzzword thrown around quite often. But, as with anything, this is just a different wave of the past circling around again. It seems that the PC era is now moving back towards the mainframe world, but this time much better marketing has birthed more impressive sounding terms. For something so important, it's surprising how often it gets overlook...
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Mind Like a Sword: Full Disclosure on Book Reviews
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Mind Like a Sword. Like a sword, keep your mind bright and sharp. And remember, it's always good to have a point. Saturday, February 18, 2012. Full Disclosure on Book Reviews. It seems I may have some housekeeping to do so please read this posting so you'll know what to expect from my book reviews. If you read my reviews, you'll notice that they're all pretty positive. There are multiple reasons for that, but I want to make it clear that other than the book being reviewed, I do not receive any. If I'm re...
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Mind Like a Sword: April 2009
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Mind Like a Sword. Like a sword, keep your mind bright and sharp. And remember, it's always good to have a point. Friday, April 24, 2009. Burk on Books - Pragmatic Thinking and Learning. Last year, Andy Hunt (co-author of the Pragmatic Programmer) authored a new book titled “Pragmatic Thinking and Learning: Refactor Your Wetware”, and I’d like to tell you a bit about it. It’s a great book. You should stop reading this blog posting and go buy a copy of the book, then sit down and read it. Now. As someone ...
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