Continuing Education
The following is a list of the tutorials, books and classes (not counting ones I forgot about) relating to my
continuing education in the art of technical product development. Although some items are not
technical they are listed because they provide depth to product development.
Book Group
Books read and discussed with peers after each chapter
This is an intermediate to advanced book, focusing narrowly on how to use the iOS Combine framework.
How can we apply technology to drive business value? For years, we've been told that the performance of software delivery teams doesn't matter―that it can't provide a competitive advantage to our companies. Through four years of groundbreaking research to include data collected from the State of DevOps reports conducted with Puppet, Dr. Nicole Forsgren, Jez Humble, and Gene Kim set out to find a way to measure software delivery performance―and what drives it―using rigorous statistical methods. This book presents both the findings and the science behind that research, making the information accessible for readers to apply in their own organizations.
An in-depth look at the JavaScript programming language and how to use it effectively to write more portable, robust, and maintainable applications and libraries.
52 Specific Ways to Improve Your iOS and OS X Programs
Advanced techniques for the Java platform.
Classes and Video Lecture Series
2021 MIT Web.Lab Massachusetts Institute of Technology Student run training on web technologies.
General Technical Books
Based on nearly eighty hours of conversations with fifteen all-time great programmers and computer scientists, the Q&A interviews in Coders at Work provide a multifaceted view into how great programmers learn to program, how they practice their craft, and what they think about the future of programming.
The true story of the most devastating cyberattack in history and the desperate hunt to identify and track the elite Russian agents behind it.
Data breaches and network intrusions are constantly in front page headline news. No matter how the data was lost or the network invaded, tracing the root cause of IT security problems usually leads back to ineffective management of security programs. In this book, you'll gain solid foundational knowledge and skills you can use to effectively manage security in your organization.
An account of how Nobel Prize winner Jennifer Doudna and her colleagues launched a revolution that will allow us to cure diseases, fend off viruses, and have healthier babies.
Looks at the development of digital companies like Google and Amazon, and suggests that their business models represent a new form of capitalist accumulation that she calls "surveillance capitalism".
Edward Snowden, the man who risked everything to expose the US government’s system of mass surveillance, reveals for the first time the story of his life, including how he helped to build that system and what motivated him to try to bring it down.
Former New York Times columnist Anand Giridharadas takes us into the inner sanctums of a new gilded age, where the rich and powerful fight for equality and justice any way they can - except ways that threaten the social order and their position atop it.
The unbelievable true story of the man who built a billion-dollar online drug empire from his bedroom—and almost got away with it.
An exploration of how computer algorithms can be applied to our everyday lives to solve common decision-making problems and illuminate the workings of the human mind.
A former Wall Street quant sounds an alarm on the mathematical models that pervade modern life and threaten to rip apart our social fabric.
The story of the people who created the computer and the internet.
A revelatory exploration of the hottest trend in technology and the dramatic impact it will have on the economy, science, and society at large.
Subtitle: Two Dozen Programmers, Three Years, 4,732 Bugs, and One Quest for Transcendent Software
Subtitle: How Google Thinks, Works, and Shapes Our Lives
Biography of his life and companies.
Subtitle: Why Some Companies Make the Leap... And Others Don't
Subtitle: And How It's Transforming Work, Leisure, Community, and Everyday Life
Subtitle: Why So Many Predictions Fail — but Some Don't
Published by Addison.Wesley
Tutorials