On the left is how enormously big everything looked in my browser during the last month. Finally, today it was fixed!

d:47.3; u:40.1; p:4

Some say that this book is a cornerstone for every developer. Unfortunately, I’ve approached it just recently, so it won’t affect me much.  As for me, this book is just a lousy interpretation of other books i’ve read plus an excerpt from the author’s experience that every mature developer will find obvious.

I would recommend this book to any junior developer in case he/she hasn’t read any other codestyle-concerned book like Josh Bloch’s “Effective Java”.

My score 3/5

p:41, u:1.14,d:1.57

p:15, d:74, u:90

Yay!

p: 3, d:2.04, u: 2.04

p:28, u:2.01,d:2.25

I’m planning to visit Balkans during the upcoming holidays.

What’s Balkans?

Soundtrack

Next month is going to be HOT!

Principles of Reactive Programming

After 2 year pause the most disruptive course i’ve ever attended is offered again. Unfortunately i didn’t finish it last time, which is pretty challenging for me. The course is taught in Scala but most of the concepts are not Scala-specific. If you enjoy functional programming this course will take you to a next level. Recommended by the LambdaDays  attendees.

Introduction to Big Data with Apache Spark {.course-detail-title}

I was told about this course on Spark Summit in San Francisco last summer. Spark was invented in Berkeley, therefore i would believe that these guy truly knows what’s Big Data. If you’re curious enough and willing to hone your Python skills i would recommend you to enroll to this course.

Since starting to listen to the Java Posse(unfortunately RIP) i’ve been dreaming to attend one of the Devoxx conferences. Since Devoxx in Poland this year takes place in the city where i live why shouldn’t i ? =)

I thought of Autodesk as a product company that’s interested in selling of theirs products instead of growing a community of loyal developers. I was completely wrong, Autodesk treats developers as first-class citizens. Guys from Autodesk were friendly and willing to tell us as much as NDA permits about their current technology platform. I was primarily focused on technologies that they use to do 3D-models for the web, and they’d given me enough information to consider Autodesk as a big player in the 3D-visualization field.

At the same time me & Andrey Kasatkin were invited to the conference to share some of our engineering expertise. We were told that attendees don’t know much about the current state of technology, excluding Autodesk’s. I’m not sure about that, because in general questions from the audience were meaningful and sometimes even challenging. Most of the conferences I’ve been there’s always a .NET guy who’s trying to convince everyone that only MS knows how to do serious things, this one wasn’t an exception. I don’t know how Microsoft does that, but it’s embarrassing to tell someone that there’s a lot of other technologies to consider that these guys are reluctant to hear about.

We had a lot of fun.

I enjoy books and conferences that Bruce Eckel does. When i approached “Atomic Scala” for the first time at the end of 2013 i was amazed. I’ve bought & read “Scala for the impatient” by Cay Horstmann up to this time, but i look at every Eckel’s book as a masterpiece. So, i was thrilled to buy and read it.

2014 has ended, but i didn’t do much Scala at that time and i forgot most of the things that i learned about Scala.

Since i try to learn a new programming language every year, i’ve decided to devote this one to learning Scala & Python. I’ve done some things with them in the past, but i haven’t excelled. As 2012 was Objective-C, 2013 was Clojure, 2014 was Coffeescript & Groovy, 2015 is all about Scala & Python for me.

Yeah, what’s about the book you might wonder? The book is easy as pie! Since we have long Christmas holidays i was able to read most of the book throughout the weekend. Exercises are great, they can give you some practical experience with Scala that you strive to have before starting your first project or finding a good OSS to contribute.

Last chapters can be tough sometimes, but the basics are taught brilliantly!

My score 5/5