Hey, all. Gordon and I cooked up a few tasty items for your digestion this week. We've got
- Take your programming course with a grain of salt, please - A developer takes a college course whereby strict consequences are dished out for not following "the" rules. is this wrong?
- http://programmers.stackexchange.com/questions/118703/where-did-the-notion-of-one-return-only-come-from/118717#118717 - brought up in the discussion.
- Dreyfus model of skill acquisition - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia - Mentioned in the discussion
- McCullough and Berglund on Mastering Advanced Git?-?O'Reilly Media - A great video tutorial on Git that relates to our discussion of the Grails 101 video.
- O'Reilly: Mastering Grails 101 Video - What brought us to talk about the videos in the first place...
- Spring Roo 1.2.1.RELEASE available - Yes, it's updated again. This time, no book changes required (beyond search/replace) - yay!
- Heroku makes sharing SQL data as easy as URL - And it's so freakin' hip.
- Grails 2.0.1 Available... - An update is available to Grails that includes 80 bug fixes and other items.
- Get Started with Java on Heroku - A nice site to launch a fully configured application, ready to host on Heroku, with a variety of frameworks including Spring and Play.
- Specializing Generalist - You, sirrah, are a Specializing Generalist. I hope you can find it in yourself to cover for me while I'm gone. I'm also a Specializing Generalist, and my specialty is in generalizing about specialties. Seriously though, I tend to agree on this angle for staffing teams in general... Ken