Seattle WingDing Notes

• WingDings Yahoo Group
• Shared WingDing Google Code SVN Repository

Studied from January 2017 - April 2017

• Java Coding Guidelines: 75 Recommendations for Reliable and Secure Programs
  • SEI CERT Oracle Coding Standard for Java Wiki
  • Robert Kuhar's Github notes

Studied from January 2014 - February 2014

SSL:

• How does SSL work?
• An overview of the SSL handshake
• Keeping Your Secrets
• SSL Toolbox
• 4 HTTP Security headers you should always be using | ibuildings

Bitcoin:

• Bitcoins For Dummies - Steven Lewis Presentation
• How the Bitcoin protocol actually works
• Why Bitcoin Matters - By Marc Andreessen
• Bitcoin Wisdom - Current Market Price

Studied from September 2013 - January 2014

• Akka Java Documentation (PDF)
• Viktor Klang - Distributed Reactive Programming -- Introducing Akka 2.2 (Video)

Studied from April 2013 - Present

• Algorithms, Part II - Princeton online course ( Saved Local Files)
• Algorithms, Part I - Princeton online course ( Saved Local Files)
• Algorithms, 4th Edition - Online Book with code

Additional Material:

• MIT Introduction to Algorithms (SMA 5503) - Video lectures

Studied from October 2012 - March 2013

• "Functional Programming for the Object-Oriented Programmer" by Brian Marick
  • Google Groups book forum
  • Light Table playground (REPL)
  • leiningen - for automating Clojure projects

Brief look at cross platform development using PhoneGap on GWT in September 2012

• Web Apps & Mobile Platform Proliferation: Affecting Team Dynamics with Development Language Choices (PDF)

Studied from May 2012 - September 2012

• Articles By Robert C. Martin
  • Testing Things That Seem Hard to Test (PPT)
  • Proxy and Stairway to Heaven (PDF)
  • Agile Processes (PDF)
  • Simple Hickey - Regarding Rich Hickey's "Simple made Easy" talk
  • The Open Closed Principle (PDF)
  • The Liskov Substitution Principle (PDF)
    • Liskov Substitution Principle (Steven Lewis' Slides)
  • The Dependency Inversion Principle (PDF)
  • The Interface Segregation Principle (PDF)
  • The Single Responsibility Principle (PDF)

Studied from January 2012 - May 2012

• 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

Plus:

• NoSQL Data Modeling Techniques
• Open Decision-Making
• The LMAX Architecture

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:
  • Dynamo: Amazon’s Highly Available Key-value Store (PDF)
  • Bigtable: A Distributed Storage System for Structured Data (PDF)
  • Eventually Consistent - Revisited
  • Brewer's CAP Theorem
  • NOSQL debrief (Video)
  • SQL Databases Don't Scale
  • NoSQL Ecosystem
  • Quick Reference to Alternative data storages
• 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