PragPub, April 2012
Table of Contents
Features
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We talk with the author of Technical Blogging about why and how technical people shpould blog.
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Building software one grain of sand at a time—and managing the landslides when the sand piles get too steep.
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In the eighth installment in his series on the Scala language, Venkat show how Scala almost makes XML pleasant to deal with.
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Jim shows how to write methods with built-in defenses that allow you to quickly find the fault underlying a failure.
Departments
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Mike interrupts his summary of the contents of this issue to invite you to write an article for us.
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Drinking from the Twitter firehose.
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Meet Kay Keppler, development editor and science fiction author.
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Author sightings, upcoming conferences, and other events of note.
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Asked to reveal his philosophy of life, John says “No.”
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Coming attractions and where to go from here.
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