PragPub—January 2011
Table of Contents
Features
- Bruce explores two powerful features of modern programming languages that can make your code more beautiful and you more productive.
- Wherein Ian creates a simple game and then shows you several ways to deploy it.
- Those big software design concepts like coupling, cohesion, abstraction, and volatility have real practical value. In this article, Tim and Jeff talk about what coupling is, why it’s necessary, and how you can reduce it to just that necessary amount.
- Software Quality Assurance is more than testing. The breadth of knowledge necessary for really good QA work are surprisingly broad.
- Dan continues his series on the history of technology with a look at the index register.
Departments
- We Friend Your Curiosity
- A good aphorism is part wit, part wisdom. A typical tweet is half witted.
- Why adopting agile methods might be harder than you think.
- Here’s how 2011 is shaping up.
- John examines the drama of wikileaks and concludes that the heroes are the genie and the butterfly.
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