I just picked up Dreaming in Code from the library yesterday (or was it Friday evening?) and I’m about a third of the way through it.  I saw it at digitalguru.com when I was there a couple weeks ago, but didn’t know what it was about.  Then I read a review in the latest “strategy [...]

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I went to a bookstore in China and saw some interesting computer books.
I’m doing some Grails work these days, so was surprised to see this:

Bill Wagner is one of the organizers of the CodeMash conference, and the only name I could find in the Chinese bookshop that I knew personally.

Also, I chuckled a bit seeing [...]

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Aaron Wormus kindly agreed to contribute a book review to techbookreviews.com, which was just posted this morning.  His take on The Definitive Guide To Symfony can be found there, hot off the presses.  Does that phrase even make sense in this digital age anymore?  How long before most people won’t even understand the origins of [...]

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Groovy and Grails give you the power of the Java platform together with the flexibility and dynamism of a scripting language. Pick one of the many example projects in this book: at first you’ll scratch your head and ask, “where’s all the code?” Then you’ll smile as you realize that Groovy allows you to write [...]

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I’ve got two books on Grails which I’ve been going through the past couple of months.  I put up a review of the first one – “Getting Started with Grails” – over at techbookreviews.com this morning.  Have a read and let me know what you think!

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I got in yesterday (what a long trip!) and will be presenting my SOLR material this morning at 10:45 in room D133.  As of last evening there wasn’t a projector in the room, so I’m not sure exactly what I’ll be doing if there isn’t one, but we’ll make it through somehow!
I bumped in to [...]

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I’m still working on my PHP job hunter book project, which is getting closer to completion.  This post doesn’t have much to do with that except to give an update, then segue in to a related bit.  I just stumbled on this post from a few years ago.  What I found interesting was the differing [...]

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I’ve put together the first draft of the survey/interview questions for my book project.  I was initially planning on doing all face to face (or skype to skype) interviews with people, but I think time constraints are going to make that very difficult.  To get around that, I’m putting out the invitation to the PHP [...]

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I just finished the audio book version of “The Little Book That Beats The Market” from Joel Greenblatt.  It certainly sounds compelling, and I’m interested in trying it out.  As opposed to ‘trading’ strategies, which you can usually verify within a few days or weeks at most, this is a moderately long term approach, taking [...]

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I’m rekindling a project I started last year, but had to shelve for a bit. As you can tell by the title of this post, this project is a book aimed at PHP job seekers. I’m in the process of scheduling interviews with companies, recruiters and individual job seekers to bring together their [...]

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