The little Elixir and OTP book 50% off
Valid also for Elixir in action and Erlang and OTP in action
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Today (2017-05-25) Peter Seibel’s Coders at Work (2009) is the Apress Daily Deal for US$ 9.99
It contains interviews with :
- Jamie Zawinski: Author of XEmacs and early Netscape/Mozilla hacker
- Brad Fitzpatrick: Writer of LiveJournal, OpenID, memcached, and Perlbal
- Douglas Crockford: JSON founder, JavaScript architect at Yahoo!
- Brendan Eich: Inventor of JavaScript, CTO of the Mozilla Corporation
- Joshua Bloch: Author of the Java collections framework, now at Google
- Simon Peyton Jones: Coinventor of Haskell and lead designer of Glasgow Haskell Compiler
- Peter Norvig: Director of Research at Google and author of the standard text on AI
- Guy Steele: Coinventor of Scheme and part of the Common Lisp Gang of Five, currently working on Fortress
- Dan Ingalls: Smalltalk implementor and designer
- L. Peter Deutsch: Author of Ghostscript, implementer of Smalltalk-80 at Xerox PARC and Lisp 1.5 on PDP-1
- Ken Thompson: Inventor of UNIX
- Frances Allen: Pioneer in optimizing compilers, first woman to win the Turing Award (2006) and first female IBM fellow
- Bernie Cosell: One of the main software guys behind the original ARPANET IMPs and a master debugger
- Donald Knuth: Author of The Art of Computer Programming and creator of TeX
and of course
- Joe Armstrong: Inventor of Erlang
which contains the (in)famous quote:
I think the lack of reusability comes in object-oriented languages, not in functional languages. Because the problem with object-oriented languages is they’ve got all this implicit environment that they carry around with them. You wanted a banana but what you got was a gorilla holding the banana and the entire jungle.
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Today only: Half off everything!
Save 50% on your entire purchase until midnight tonight! Just enter wm052917lt in the Promotional Code box when you check out. Expires midnight May 29. Only at manning.com.
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FYI: Some forum members expressed an interest in Vue,js - so here it goes:
Manning has launched a new MEAP
Save half on Vue.js in Action and these other selected books**. Just enter mlhanchettlt in the Promotional Code box when you check out. Expires Tuesday, June 20. Only at manning.com
Authors: Erik Hanchett with Benjamin Listwon.
The first three chapters are available now. The source code uses Vue.js v2.2.0.
Erik Hanchett is also the author of the Ember.js Cookbook (goodreads, amazon.com)
There actually is a Phoenix tangent here and here.
**other selected books:
- ES6 in Motion
- SPA Design and Architecture
- Single Page Web Applications
- React Quickly
- Reactive Application Development
- Reactive Design Patterns
- Getting MEAN with Mongo, Express, Angular, and Node, Second Edition
- Angular in Action
- Angular 2 Development with TypeScript
- Testing Angular Applications
- Secrets of the JavaScript Ninja, Second Edition
- Get Programming with JavaScript
- Get Programming with JavaScript Next
- Functional Programming in JavaScript
- HTML5 in Action
- Aurelia in Action
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AstonJ
13 posts were split to a new topic: O’Reilly shop closes down - no more book sales, just subscriptions
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Today 2017-07-03 Erlang and Elixir for Imperative Programmers is the Daily Deal at Apress.com for US$ 9.99
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Manning Deal of the Day 2017-07-04
Last chance! Half off everything Today Only!
Use code WM070417LT at checkout
Many of you have already taken advantage of the great deals we’ve offered over the last few days. For those of you who have been too busy to check your email, we want to give you one last chance to snag some great new titles at manning.com. You’re going back to work tomorrow anyway, so pick up the learning you need while everything is half off!
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