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Amazon competes with its own Goodreads with launch of book discovery service, ‘Your Books’

TechCrunch

Amazon today is launching its own competitor to Goodreads, a book tracking and recommendations site it also owns. The retailer announced the launch of a new Amazon feature, Your Books, which will organize all the books you’ve bought, borrowed, or saved, including print books, as well as Amazon’s Kindle and Audible titles.

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Updating The Single Most Influential Book of the BASIC Era

Coding Horror

In a way, these two books are responsible for my entire professional career. For many of us, if we wanted the computer to do anything, we had to type in entire programs from books like 101 Basic Computer Games , by hand. He specified type, took photos, got books of "clip art," drew illustrations, and laid out boards.

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Interviewed by Book Overflow podcast on Refactoring

Martin Fowler

I was interviewed on the Book Overflow podcast about the Refactoring book. We talked about the origins of the book, the relationship between refactoring, testing, and extreme programming, how refactoring is used in the wild, and the role of books and long-form prose today.

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TechCrunch+ picks: 9 books set around San Francisco

TechCrunch

San Francisco is in a constant state of reinvention, and the many books set in or based on the Bay Area help prove it.

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The Big Payoff of Application Analytics

That’s what drove the five companies in this e-book to change their approach to analytics. Download this e-book to learn about the unique problems each company faced and how they achieved huge returns beyond expectation by embedding analytics into applications.

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26 essential book recommendations by and for IT leaders

CIO

Load a smart read onto your phone or e-reader or crack the spine of a new book and delve into some thought leadership on everything from leading an amazing team to building a productive company culture to reaching for a better mindset for guiding your organization forward. This book offers valuable techniques and frameworks.

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The 6 best gifts for book lovers this holiday season

TechCrunch

When it comes to getting gifts for the book lover in your life, you can never go wrong with gifting them books on their wish list. But, if you want to get them something other than a book, there are quite a few options out there. As an avid reader myself, I know how a […] © 2023 TechCrunch. All rights reserved.

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7+ Graphics Libraries to Enhance Your Embedded Analytics

This e-book details a number of graphics libraries plus a few bonus tools to modernize your embedded dashboards. If your embedded analytics are looking stale, leverage these free graphics libraries to take your embedded analytics offerings above and beyond.

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Monetizing Analytics Features: Why Data Visualizations Will Never Be Enough

Think your customers will pay more for data visualizations in your application? Five years ago they may have. But today, dashboards and visualizations have become table stakes. Discover which features will differentiate your application and maximize the ROI of your embedded analytics. Brought to you by Logi Analytics.

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Decoding Code Review and Pull Requests - a handbook for Software Engineers and Tech Leads

Written by Elaine Watanabe, it's a practical e-book with useful examples and references, and a must-read for all tech teams. A complete handbook on implementing a code review culture in your organization.

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E-book: 5 Strategies to Boost Software Deliveries

In this e-book written in partnership with Wesley Zapellini, he shared his vast in Managing Agile Teams. Finally, someone summarized in 5 practical strategies on how to improve any software development workflow. Real-life examples, charts, and graphs!

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Architect Your Organization for Effectiveness, Productivity, and Joy

Speaker: Ron Lichty, Consultant: Interim VP Engineering, Ron Lichty Consulting, Inc.

We are excited to welcome Ron Lichty, co-author of a seminal book on managing software teams and a well-known speaker, who will walk us through the latest thinking, best practices, and on-the-ground experiences structured around key questions about effective organizational structures: How, when and how often do we split teams?

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Personalize Your User Experience Using Behavior Change Science

Speaker: Amy Bucher, Ph.D., Vice President of Behavior Change Design, Mad*Pow

Amy's book "Engaged: Designing for Behavior Change" is out and ready to change your perception of what a product should be. **The The first 100 attendees who stay for the duration of the webinar will receive a promo code for a discount on this great book.**

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How to Easily Navigate Crypto Accounting in the Web3 Era

Speaker: Aaron Jacob, VP of Accounting Solutions & Reagan Cook, GTM Lead

Industry experts Aaron Jacob and Reagan Cook of TaxBit will thoroughly explore the prevalent operational hurdles encountered by accounting teams when interacting with crypto on the books, and detail how software solutions can effectively tackle these challenges.

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How to Achieve Product-Market Fit

Speaker: Dan Olsen - Product Management Trainer and Consultant, Author, and Speaker

In this webinar, product management expert Dan Olsen will share his simple but effective framework for achieving product-market fit from his book The Lean Product Playbook. But most products fail to do so.