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ISSUE 10 - September 6, 2012

featured

The .NET Rocks Visual Studio 2012 Launch Road Trip — Two popular .NET developers are about to tour America in a giant RV giving talks about building modern Windows applications. They have about 30 destinations lined up so far covering September through November. Sounds fun!
Thinking Functionally with Haskell — What can TDD learn from tests? What can types learn from TDD? Paul Callaghan takes a deep dive into the world of types by way of Haskell. A lot to take in here. // Paul Callaghan
Baking Pi: Operating Systems Development for the Raspberry Pi — This course takes you through the basics of operating systems development in assembly code. // Alex Chadwick

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reading

Itsy: A Tiny Forth Implementation — Very heavily commented x86 assembly code to read and follow. // John Metcalf
An Introduction to libuv — A free, online book about libuv, the high performance cross-platform evented I/O library. // Nikhil Marathe
An Introduction to Programming in Go — A book about Google's compiled, garbage collected systems language you can read for free online or in PDF form (or buy in Kindle or paperback forms, if you prefer) // Caleb Doxsey
Another Go at the Next Big Language — Remember Steve Yegge's famed 'Next Big Language' article of 2007? Dave Cheney picks up on developments since then and suggests Go might be the answer. // Dave Cheney

releases

Processing 2.0 Beta 1 — The cross-platform visual arts language and environment.

watching and listening

The NOSQL Tapes — Interviews with NoSQL innovators and users made during a 77 day world tour.

lighter bites

A 'Rust' Primer — Rust is an experimental language being developed at Mozilla. This is a very short and basic intro.
The Jackson Cookbook: JSON Recipes in Java — E-book. Available in PDF/iPad/Kindle formats. // Ted M. Young
Top 10 Algorithms [pdf] — It's a little dated but some journal editors attempted to name the top 10 algorithms of the 20th century in a 2 page article.

quoted

"One person's constant is another person's variable." // Susan Gerhart