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In this issue:

  • Socio-Technical Seeing
  • It’s Just Artificial Intelligence
  • Swarm Algorithms
  • The Return of Zombies

Plus Swaine’s World, New Manager’s Playbook, Shady Illuminations, On Tap, the PragPub Puzzle, Antonio on Books, From the Pragmatic Bookshelf, and the BoB Page.

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Coming Up Next:

  • Programming Phoenix 1.4 in print
  • Powerful Command-Line Applications in Go, in beta
October PragPub
October 04, 2019

Oh the horrors! Welcome to October, where dark, seasonal terrors lurk beneath the beguiling aroma of pumpkin-spice mocha lattes. It's a new month, a dark month, which brings us to another issue of PragPub magazine, bringing you the latest ideas from our maddest of mad scientists.

You don't want to miss it.

Now available from theprosegarden.com.

October PragPub Magazine

Prepare yourself for the Halloween edition of PragPub.

Warning: there will be zombies.

Marcus Blankenship, who writes for us monthly about the pitfalls of being a programmer/manager, tells the tale of one programmer who took a great fall.

Michael Feathers, normally a most polite and pleasant fellow and the last person you’d expect to do this (but isn’t it always the last person you’d expect?), ventures outside the law. Conway’s Law.

But that’s only the sinister beginning. Eric Redmond probes the dark side of artificial intelligence. Frances Buontempo reveals what happens when algorithms begin to swarm. James Grenning unleashes the zombies.

And if you dare...

Watch in horror as Antonio Cangiano dissects the latest tech books. Follow John Shade down dark corridors of dystopian paranoia. Learn the macabre secret of the hideous anagram-sudoku hybrid.

We hope you enjoy this Halloween edition of PragPub.

Now available from theprosegarden.com.

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  • 2019-10-14 James O. Coplien, Amsterdam, Netherlands
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  • 2019-10-15 Venkat Subramaniam, All Things Open
  • 2019-10-20 Jon Reid, Silicon Valley Code Camp Agile Track, San Jose, California, USA
  • 2019-10-25 James O. Coplien, Prague, Czech
  • 2019-11-15 Frances Buontempo, Meeting Cpp, Berlin

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