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Books every programmer should read

Code Complete (2nd edition) by Steve McConnell

The Pragmatic Programmer

Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs

The C Programming Language by Kernighan and Ritchie

Introduction to Algorithms by Cormen, Leiserson, Rivest & Stein

Design Patterns by the Gang of Four

Refactoring: Improving the Design of Existing Code

The Mythical Man Month

The Art of Computer Programming by Donald Knuth

Compilers: Principles, Techniques and Tools by Alfred V. Aho, Ravi Sethi and Jeffrey D. Ullman

Gödel, Escher, Bach by Douglas Hofstadter

Clean Code: A Handbook of Agile Software Craftsmanship by Robert C. Martin

Effective C++

More Effective C++

CODE by Charles Petzold

Programming Pearls by Jon Bentley

Working Effectively with Legacy Code by Michael C. Feathers

Peopleware by Demarco and Lister

Coders at Work by Peter Seibel

Surely You’re Joking, Mr. Feynman!

Effective Java 2nd edition

Patterns of Enterprise Application Architecture by Martin Fowler

The Little Schemer

The Seasoned Schemer

Why’s (Poignant) Guide to Ruby

The Inmates Are Running The Asylum: Why High Tech Products Drive Us Crazy and How to Restore the Sanity

The Art of Unix Programming

Test-Driven Development: By Example by Kent Beck

Practices of an Agile Developer

Don’t Make Me Think

Agile Software Development, Principles, Patterns, and Practices by Robert C. Martin

Domain Driven Designs by Eric Evans

The Design of Everyday Things by Donald Norman

Modern C++ Design by Andrei Alexandrescu

Best Software Writing I by Joel Spolsky

The Practice of Programming by Kernighan and Pike

Pragmatic Thinking and Learning: Refactor Your Wetware by Andy Hunt

Software Estimation: Demystifying the Black Art by Steve McConnel

The Passionate Programmer (My Job Went To India) by Chad Fowler

Hackers: Heroes of the Computer Revolution

Algorithms + Data Structures = Programs

Writing Solid Code

JavaScript - The Good Parts

Getting Real by 37 Signals

Foundations of Programming by Karl Seguin

Computer Graphics: Principles and Practice in C (2nd Edition)

Thinking in Java by Bruce Eckel

The Elements of Computing Systems

Refactoring to Patterns by Joshua Kerievsky

Modern Operating Systems by Andrew S. Tanenbaum

The Annotated Turing

Things That Make Us Smart by Donald Norman

The Timeless Way of Building by Christopher Alexander

The Deadline: A Novel About Project Management by Tom DeMarco

The C++ Programming Language (3rd edition) by Stroustrup

Patterns of Enterprise Application Architecture

Computer Systems - A Programmer’s Perspective

Agile Principles, Patterns, and Practices in C# by Robert C. Martin

Growing Object-Oriented Software, Guided by Tests

Framework Design Guidelines by Brad Abrams

Object Thinking by Dr. David West

Advanced Programming in the UNIX Environment by W. Richard Stevens

Hackers and Painters: Big Ideas from the Computer Age

The Soul of a New Machine by Tracy Kidder

CLR via C# by Jeffrey Richter

The Timeless Way of Building by Christopher Alexander

Design Patterns in C# by Steve Metsker

Alice in Wonderland by Lewis Carol

Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance by Robert M. Pirsig

About Face - The Essentials of Interaction Design

Here Comes Everybody: The Power of Organizing Without Organizations by Clay Shirky

The Tao of Programming

Computational Beauty of Nature

Writing Solid Code by Steve Maguire

Philip and Alex’s Guide to Web Publishing

Object-Oriented Analysis and Design with Applications by Grady Booch

Effective Java by Joshua Bloch

Computability by N. J. Cutland

Masterminds of Programming

The Tao Te Ching

The Productive Programmer

The Art of Deception by Kevin Mitnick

The Career Programmer: Guerilla Tactics for an Imperfect World by Christopher Duncan

Paradigms of Artificial Intelligence Programming: Case studies in Common Lisp

Masters of Doom

Pragmatic Unit Testing in C# with NUnit by Andy Hunt and Dave Thomas with Matt Hargett

How To Solve It by George Polya

The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho

Smalltalk-80: The Language and its Implementation

Writing Secure Code (2nd Edition) by Michael Howard

Introduction to Functional Programming by Philip Wadler and Richard Bird

No Bugs! by David Thielen

Rework by Jason Freid and DHH

JUnit in Action

Source: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1711/what-is-the-single-most-influential-book-every-programmer-should-read

Dbl Trouble: Fix Falls Short for Backdoor in China-Made Devices

Dbl Trouble: Fix Falls Short for Backdoor in China-Made Devices

A hidden, backdoor account affects a line of VoIP gateways made by DblTek, researchers from TrustWave found. (Image courtesy of DblTek.) In-brief: A hidden, backdoor account affects a line of VoIP gateways made by DblTek, researchers from TrustWave found. The manufacturers fix, however, may not solve the problem.  (more…)

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Santorini - Greece (by Rob Oo)

6 Tumblr shortcuts for blogging on a computer

Quick scroll, like, and view notes of a post on your dashboard: Keys J, K, L and N come very handy. Hit J for next post, K for previous post, L to like a post and N to show post’s notes 

Quickly compose a new post from anywhere on your Dashboard:  key combo Z + C (Option + Z for Mac)

Quickly reblog a post: Shift + R (Not working? Make sure you are on the right post by pressing J or K)

Quickly add a post to your Queue: Shift + E

Quickly play a video: Just click Enter

Quickly switch between your Dashboard and your Blogs: key combo Z+ Tab

Dates

{Foods of the Sunnah}

The Prophet (peace and blessings of Allah be upon him) would break his fast with fresh or dried dates, ajwa dates being his favorite due to their abilities to heal. He would break his fast with an odd number, so we should as well.

Dates are

rich in minerals, which our body cannot supply so we must consume in order to grow and function properly

they improve digestion

contain antioxidants

even aid in our eye sight

reduce labor pains

The Prophet (peace and blessings of Allah be upon him) said,

“Break your fast by eating dates as it is purifying” [Ahmad]

“Whoever finds dates should break his fast with them and the one who does not should break his fast with water it is pure.” [Ahmad]

“Whoever has seven ajwa dates every morning he will not be harmed on that day by poison or magic.” [Bukhari]

“Ajwa dates are from paradise.” [Muslim]

Allah says:

“Shake the trunk of the palm toward you and fresh, ripe dates will drop down onto you.” (Maryam 19:25)

Human Spatial Memory is Made Up of Numerous Individual Maps

Spatial memory is something we use and need in our everyday lives. Time for morning coffee? We head straight to the kitchen and know where to find the coffee machine and cups. To do this, we require a mental image of our home and its contents. If we didn’t have this information stored in our memory, we would have to search through the entire house every time we needed something. Exactly how this mental processing works is not clear. Do we use one big mental map of all of the objects we have in our home? Or do we have a bunch of small maps instead – perhaps one for each room? Tobias Meilinger and Marianne Strickrodt, cognitive scientists from the Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics, investigated these questions in a research study.

The research is in Cognition. (full access paywall)

this week the senate will vote on whether or not to give the fbi warrantless access to your browsing data. this is extremely dangerous and a violation of privacy. not only would the fbi be able to essentially hack into your computers and internet service, but they might also hack into ones overseas. anything on your computers, they’ll be able to have access to. this is an extremely dangerous power the fbi is trying to get, and it CAN be stopped, but only if you guys are willing to put forth the effort.

how do you stop it? first, get the word out. twitter, tumblr, facebook, just get the word out by either making your own status or sharing this link. 

secondly, call your senators. on this website, just enter your phone number and it will give you a script to read off of. it will take you less than 30 seconds, trust me. you can also tweet them, send them emails, etc. all the contact info is on this site here. they will listen. dont know who your senators are? go here and scroll to the bottom. it lists all the senators and who you can call. also, you can tweet at them or send them an email. (all the links in this paragraph lead to the same source)

guys, it is extremely important this bill not get passed. PLEASE reblog this and at least tweet at them? you dont even have to think of anything to type. you literally click the tweet button and it does it for you. please, guys, please.

Some satisfying codes

I hope you accept imgur galleries :) !

http://imgur.com/a/MYdSP

I’m writing a scene manager for my java game engine, using LWJGL3 with modern OpenGL. This is some methods from the parenting system. And nope. JAVA ISN’T SLOW (well, when you know how to use it properly).

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Love it. More so for the colours. :) xx