I recently stumbled across the NOSQL Summer website via my friend Alex Miller’s blog. The idea is to setup a summer reading club focused around databases and distributed systems. Groups will gather “worldwide” to discuss various papers and the hopefully submit the substance of their discussions back to the NOSQL Summer website in the form [...]
Archive for May, 2010
6 May
First thoughts on “Seven Languages in Seven Weeks…”
I recently started reading the beta copy of Bruce Tate’s Seven Languages in Seven Weeks from the Pragmatic Bookshelf. While I’m certainly NOT on pace to actually complete the book in seven weeks, I have been steadily plodding along. Reading this book takes me back to my days as an undergraduate computer science student at [...]
