PragPub, August 2012
Table of Contents
Features
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Did you know there's a website equivalent to having your doors broken down by hordes of deal-crazed shoppers?
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In which we dip our toe into the functional programming waters and answer the question, how does functional thinking differ from the imperative kind?
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In which we begin an exploration into the Haskell language and dive deeply into functional programming.
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Thoughts on the Tom Paine of the personal computer revolution.
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In the final installment of his series on the Scala language, Venkat explores concurrency.
Departments
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Stampeding customers, Scala, Haskell, functional thinking, and the Tom Paine of the personal computing revolution.
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Which Pragmatic Bookshelf books are hot right now—plus some tweets.
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Author sightings, upcoming conferences, and other events of note.
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With some problems, the only problem is thinking there’s a solution, John thinks.
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Coming attractions and where to go from here.
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