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June 08, 2016
George Orwell's 1984 hit the streets on this day in 1949. Remember, it wasn't intended as a reference manual ;)
There are better ways of achieving world domination now. Software rules the world. All you need to do is rule the software. Start with this month's issue of PragPub.
June PragPub Magazine
This month in PragPub we’ve got advice for young programmers and programmers-turned-managers and seasoned developers, code projects in JavaScript and Elixir, some forward thinking on testing, and a game for you to build. Plus a free article.
Elixir is catching on as a rich and friendly language for general business development. But evolution in the Elixir ecosystem is not uniform. One area where it’s lagging is testing, and Bruce Tate wants to fix that. This month he offers a tool for testing Elixir code based on a well-thought-out philosophy of testing.
If you’re building for the Web today, you want to make sure your app performs superbly with mobile browsers. That’s the priority of the folks behind Phaser, a JavaScript framework for creating games that run in your browser or on mobile devices. Brian Hogan has been playing around with it and walks you through the basics by developing a complete simple 2D game. With Phaser handling the creation of states, collisions, sprites, and the like, you can concentrate on the features that make your game unique and fun for the player — and have fun building it.
Software development is experiencing a population explosion. We tend to address experienced developers in PragPub, but we aren’t oblivious to the fact that there are lots of new programmers who would like a little helpful advice from seasoned veterans. Last year Antonio Cangiano interviewed over 100 candidates for IBM and ended up hiring a couple dozen of them. In this issue he shares what he wanted to tell all of them in his tips for young programmers.
Experienced programmers can benefit from advice, too. In her new column, Johanna Rothman shares two stories from in the trenches and explains how to take control of your project portfolio. Columnist Marcus Blankenship continues his series on bad management habits. Antonio also shares his list of new books in technology. And Derek Sivers offers some advice on looking for the intersection between happy, smart, and useful.
PragPub is a monthly magazine, published in pdf, epub, and mobi formats. You can subscribe for one year for $19.99 or buy a single issue for $1.99. And this month we’re making one of our articles available for free on our website. You can download Brian Hogan’s game feature from http://theprosegarden.com/sample-article.
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