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Peter Bhat Harkins
2018 Media Reviews
Life: book review, books, comics, media review, tabletop games, video games
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I’ve appreciated when people take the time to write reviews and highlight connections to other good works. This is an in-progress list that I’ll update over the course of the year. Previously: 2014 2015 2016 2017
One Fine Git Book: Pro Git
Code: book review, git, svn, version control
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As long as I’m reading too much, let me suggest that you can skip the couple dozen blog posts and half-dozen books about Git. Read this one introductory blog post and, if git sounds like a good tool for you, you can read one fine book about Git and be thoroughly informed.
JavaScript: The Good Parts
Code: book review, Douglas Crockford, JavaScript
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In JavaScript, there is a beautiful, elegant, highly expressive language that is buried under a steaming pile of good intentions and blunders. The best nature of JavaScript is so effectively hidden that for many years the prevailing opinion of JS was that it was an unsightly, incompetent toy.
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