https://sairam.dev/tags/book/ Recent content in book on Sai Ram's Blog Hugo -- gohugo.io en-us © 2020. All rights reserved. Mon, 22 Jul 2013 23:43:00 +0530 https://sairam.dev/post/book-review-version-control-with-git/ Mon, 22 Jul 2013 23:43:00 +0530 https://sairam.dev/post/book-review-version-control-with-git/ Version Control with Git 2/e by Jon Loeliger, Matthew McCullough from O’Reilly Media The book was provided as part of the blogger’s review program. This book covers topics from basics to advanced aspects of git varying from basic daily usage to once in a life time commands that you dream have existed. Who is the book for ? If you want to know the modern day distributed version control systems stop using p4, a disaster happens when you wait for few seconds to open a file on the server across the continent learn about new data structures and concepts used in building an VCS be amazed about no central authority managing files and easily download thousands of revision changes in a single shot know how thousands of developers across the world contribute to thousands of projects without a central bottleneck did not know that creating a new branch is a millisecond operation stick with svn, but use the power of git This book is for you if you fall under any of the options above https://sairam.dev/post/review-of-introducing-elixir/ Sun, 21 Jul 2013 20:50:00 +0530 https://sairam.dev/post/review-of-introducing-elixir/ Book at Oreilly Introducing ElixirReview of Introducing Elixir Well-written Helpful examples Easy to understand Read through “Other Resources” from the ‘Preface’ before getting your hands on this book This book is ideal for developers/students planning to start with the language. Great introduction to the language syntax, programs in Elixir Broad information about all types of basic data structures used and common patterns applied. https://sairam.dev/post/2013-05-10-beautiful-sculptures-on-folded-book-art/ Fri, 10 May 2013 10:13:00 +0530 https://sairam.dev/post/2013-05-10-beautiful-sculptures-on-folded-book-art/   https://sairam.dev/post/acqhiring-the-new-way-of-hiring/ Mon, 06 May 2013 00:00:00 +0000 https://sairam.dev/post/acqhiring-the-new-way-of-hiring/ This practice is so widespread that a term, acqhiring, has entered the industry lexicon to describe it. Even for the skeptics, it’s difficult to argue that these acquis- itions are about anything other than people. In many deals, like Facebook’s acquisition of Gowalla, the technology was not even a part of the transaction. And when the technology is included in the transaction, it is frequently released as open source post-acquisition. The New Kingmakers