Software Engineering

What is a BHO? Goanna? Hooking? How about a principal box? Or the Ten-Second Rule? Covering more than 2,000 terms ranging from A11Y to Zsh, and including explanations from Wikipedia and the MDN Web Docs, The Web Development Glossary is a comprehensive compendium rich in information for both novice and expert developers.

Find out what’s good and bad about your software - practical analysis, evaluation, assessment, audit, review. Covers technical and organisational issues, from requirements over architecture and code up to deployment and rollout. 

The Agile Retrospective Smells Cards: a coaching tool for Scrum masters, agile coaches, and anyone who facilitates agile retrospectives to recognize smells and solve problems or mitigate the impact using antidotes.

A fun and serious game to identify and discuss unproductive behavior in retrospective meetings, improve communication and collaboration, and make agile retrospectives more valuable. For agile teams, Scrum masters, agile coaches, and consultants leading agile transformations.

Python's best kept secret is its built in support for functional programming. Even better, it allows functional programming to be blended seamlessly with procedural and object oriented coding styles. This book explains what functional programming is, how Python supports it, and how you can use it to write clean, efficient and reliable code.

You can write code. The interview still rejected you. You shipped the feature. You still didn't get promoted. You've been "senior" for years and you're still getting paged for incidents on systems you barely understand. This book is for the gaps — everything around the code that nobody explains and everyone learns the hard way. The inside account of what a technical interviewer is actually evaluating when they ask about your architecture. The difference between maintaining a system and owning it. How to build influence when you have no formal authority. How to stay relevant without burning out or becoming obsolete. Not theory. Not generic advice. Production experience distilled into a map of the profession.

A how-to field guide on building leak-free abstractions and algebraically designing real-world applications.

Learn how to produce beautiful, functional and easily-shareable configuration files using Emacs and org-mode

This book will guide you from being an absolute beginner in Terraform to knowing how to use every aspect of it to successfully configure and manage your infrastructure. Terraform is fast becoming the go to infrastructure as code tool and this book will give you the skills embrace it.

Powerful questions to inspire your agile retrospectives and keep them valuable and effective!For retrospective facilitators, Scrum masters, Agile Coaches, and consultants.

”A fascinating retelling of one man’s journey to become part of an ongoing and never-ending revolution in software engineering... This serves not only as a warning for those trying to start a revolution in their chosen field, but also as lighter fluid to get the fires burning.” Brent Beckley, Marketing Director, Morgan & Claypool Publishers 

Finest Python Algorithm Tutorial for Job Interviews.

Schnell wechselnde Webtechnologien bringen neue sicherheitsrelevante Themen mit auf den Plan, mit denen sich genauer auseinandergesetzt werden muss.

Writing better, maintainable enterprise Java code can be a very daunting task. Wouldn't you love to have an API that helps you write better code?