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  • Patterns Enhance Craft
  • #NoEstimates Does Not Mean “No Estimates”
  • Functional Snippets
  • The Voyage to Altair

Plus: On Tap, Swaine’s World, Rothman and Lester, New Manager’s Playbook, Antonio on Books, Pragmatic Bookstuff, Solution to Puzzle

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March PragPub
March 04, 2015

Swift, NoEstimates, Patterns, Functions and the Altair

The cover of the March issue of PragPub is meant as a celebration of spring as well as a nod to the ubiquity and importance of patterns. Along with Swift, #NoEstimates, the first personal computer, and the care and feeding of your career, the relationship between patterns and craft is under scrutiny in PragPub this month.

Kent Beck knows a lot about programming, and a lot about patterns. He’s the author/coauthor of Implementation Patterns and The Smalltalk Best Practice Patterns, among his many publications and other accomplishments. He’s been giving a lot of thought recently to the relationship between patterns and craft, and he shares his thoughts with us this month.

Seb Rose knows a lot about estimates, and the current rage in estimates, #noestimates. Stop trying to “get better at estimating,” Seb advises. Instead, understand what need each stakeholder is trying to meet in asking for estimates, and focus on meeting that need. How to do that is the subject of his article this month.

Chris Eidhof, Wouter Swierstra, and Florian Kugler once again offer up a byte-sized lesson in Swift, in their ongoing series on functional programming in Swift. This month they develop a functional implementation of Quicksort.

A career is like a garden, and PragPub aspires to be your seed catalog. But we also have some tips on career growth. Marcus Blankenship writes this month about taking your career to the next level, revealing why some developers get promoted and some don’t. Meanwhile Johanna Rothman and Andy Lester reveal the secrets to building a career-advancing social media profile, spelling out which social media platforms are good for what, and why.

Here, too, you will find the final installment in our story of Ed Roberts and the building of the MITS Altair computer, excerpted from Fire in the Valley. This one features young Bill Gates and Paul Allen, back in the days when they were living in Albuquerque and Microsoft was just the two of them.

As usual, Antonio Cangiano is here with all the new tech books, and Mike has again put together a puzzle for your amusement. We hope you enjoy the issue!

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Upcoming Author Appearances

  • 2015-03-04 Adam Tornhill, QCon London 2015, UK
  • 2015-03-05 Rachel Davies, QCon London
  • 2015-03-09 Johanna Rothman, Booster Conference, Bergen, NO
  • 2015-03-09 Jamis Buck, Mountain West Ruby Conference, Salt Lake City, Utah
  • 2015-03-10 Johanna Rothman, Booster Conference, Bergen, NO
  • 2015-03-11 Johanna Rothman, Booster Conference, Bergen, NO
  • 2015-03-12 Johanna Rothman, Booster Conference, Bergen, NO

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