Seattle WingDing Notes

• WingDings Yahoo Group
• Shared WingDing Google Code SVN Repository

Studied from January 2012 - Present

• 10 Papers Every Programmer Should Read (At Least Twice)
  • On the criteria to be used in decomposing systems into modules – David Parnas
  • A Note On Distributed Computing – Jim Waldo, Geoff Wyant, Ann Wollrath, Sam Kendall
  • The Next 700 Programming Languages – P. J. Landin
  • Can Programming Be Liberated from the von Neumann Style? – John Backus
  • Reflections on Trusting Trust – Ken Thompson
  • Lisp: Good News, Bad News, How to Win Big – Richard Gabriel
  • An experimental evaluation of the assumption of independence in multiversion programming – John Knight and Nancy Leveson
  • Arguments and Results – James Noble
  • A Laboratory For Teaching Object-Oriented Thinking – Kent Beck, Ward Cunningham
  • Programming as an Experience: the inspiration for Self – David Ungar, Randall B. Smith

Studied from December 2011 - January 2012

• Google Guava:
  • GuavaExplained Wiki
  • GTUG - Using the Google Collections Library for Java (1 of 2) (41 mins)
  • GTUG - Using the Google Collections Library for Java (2 of 2) (54 mins)
  • Google Guava Libraries Essentials

Studied from October 2011 - December 2011

• "Java: The Good Parts" by Jim Waldo - O'Reilly

Studied from April 2011 - October 2011

• REST in Practice - O'Reilly Media

Studied from January 2011 - April 2011

• Dive Into HTML5
• HTML5: Up and Running - O'Reilly Media

Studied from September 2010 - December 2010

• JavaScript: The Good Parts by Douglas Crockford
• Douglas Crockford: "JavaScript - The Good Parts" on Yahoo! Video

Studied from May 2010 - August 2010

• NoSQL Required Reading list (WingDings is using this)
• Another reading list of NoSQL related papers

Studied from September 2009 - April 2010

• "Programming Scala" by Dean Wampler and Alex Payne
• "Programming Scala" Code Samples
• Scala Overview (PDF)
• Scala Language
• Scala API Docs (Alternate API Doc Style)

Studied in August 2009

• Code Commit Blog Article - Roundup: Scala for Java Refugees

Looked at briefly in July 2009

• Stan Dyck's Clojure Bookmarks
• Clojure - Functional Programming for the JVM

Studied from February 2009 - July 2009

• "Programming Collective Intelligence" by Toby Segaran - O'Reilly Site
• "Programming Collective Intelligence" - SPL Safari Site

Brief overview of Python 2.x by Brian Dorsey in January 2009

Studied from June 2008 - December 2008

• "Effective Java, 2nd Edition" by Joshua Bloch