General Software Crafting Topics

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• Getting Started
• Communities, Meetups
  • Communities and User Groups
  • Registered Associations
  • Consulting Companies
• Conferences
• Magazines (German)
• Podcasts
• Blogs
• Individual Articles
• Tools and Resources
• Books
• Websites
• Learning Platforms
• Publishers Specialized on Software Crafting Learning Materials
• Cites

Getting Started

If you are looking for the next (first) programming language to learn you may want to consider

• TIOBE Index - Indicator of the popularity of programming languages.

• Stackoverflow Developer Survey

  • Most wanted programming languages in 2020

This guide shows how one can learn a new programming language systematically

• Learn Go with Tests

Communities, Meetups

Communities and User Groups

• Softwarecrafters.slack.com
  • Einladung anfragen
• Softwerkskammer (German)
  • Softwerkskammer Köln (Meetup Link)
  • Softwerkskammer Wien
  • Softwerkskammer Köln (Meetup Link)
• Limited WIP Society
  • Limited WIP Society Cologne
• Java User Group Saxony
• Python User Group Austria

Registered Associations

• iSAQB e.V.

Consulting Companies

• REWE Digital Events
• embarc Veranstaltungskalender
• innoq Veranstaltungskalender
• wps Work Place Solutions Terminkalender
• oose Online Vorträge
• J.B. Rainsberger - teaching programmers how to design software well.
• codecentric community

Conferences

see separate page Conferences.

Magazines (German)

• Informatik Aktuell - Informatik Aktuell ermöglicht ihrer Zielgruppe tief gehende Einblicke in aktuelle Entwicklungstechnologien und Methoden.

• dotnetpro - Profi-Softwareentwickler-Magazin im deutschsprachigen Raum mit einem Schwerpunkt auf Microsoft .NET.

• Javamagazin - Java-Technologie, Software-Architektur, Open Innovation.

• codecentric: Der Softwerker - kostenfreies, konzentriertes IT-Wissen, unterhaltsam aufbereitet und ansprechend gestaltet..

• DZone - knowledge, tools, and strategies technology professionals need to build the future.

Podcasts

• Software Engineering Radio
• Greater than Code
• Hanselminutes with Scott Hanselman
• Weekly Dev Tips
• .NET Rocks
• INNOQ Security Podcast (German)

Video Streams

• .NET Live TV

Blogs

For Blogs related to Lean and Kanban see the section Blogs in Kanban - Impulses and Ideas.

• Andy Hunt: Toolshed Technologies Blog

• Liz Keogh - Lean and Agile consultant, core member of the BDD community, contributor to JBehave and others.

• Martin Fowler -

• codecentric blog

• gotopia;

• JetBrains Blog

• Joel Spolsky: Joel on Software

• Peter Kofler: Code Cop

• Gregor Riegler

• Hello2morrow: Empowering Software Craftsmanship

• Software Architecture Summit Blog

Individual Articles

• Martin Fowler: Test Double - A definition of the terms “test double”, “dummy”, “fake”, “stub”, “spy” and “mock”

• Martin Fowler: Beck Design Rules - Passes the tests, Reveals intention, No duplication, Fewest elements

Tools and Resources

• Choose an open source license - Overview on permissions, conditions and restrictions imposed by various open source licenses.

• gitignore.io - Generate .gitignore rules addressing specific languages, tool chains, code editors and IDEs.

• Flaticon - Open Source Icons, Graphics, Pictures, Cliparts.

• RabbitMQ - Open source message broker.

• ZeroMQ - An open-source universal messaging library.

  • GitHub: NetMQ - C# port of the lightweight messaging library ZeroMQ.

Books

• David Thomas and Andrew Hunt: The Pragmatic Programmer, 20th Anniversary Edition, The Pragmatic Bookshelf, September 2019. ISBN 9780135957059.

• Kent Beck: Test Driven Development - By Example.

• Saleem Siddiqui: Learning Test-Driven Development

• Kent Beck: Extreme Programming Explained

• Michael Feathers: Working Effectively with Legacy Code

• Martin Fowler: Refactoring

• Joshua Kerievski: Refactoring to Patterns - how to evolve most of the popular Gang of Four patterns.

• Robert C. Martin: Clean Code

• E. Gamma, R. Helm, R. E. Johnson, J. Vlissides: Design Patterns. Elements of Reusable Object-Oriented Software.

• Martin Fowler: Patterns of Enterprise Application Architecture

• Sandi Metz: Practical Object Oriented Design - a programmers tale about how to write object-oriented code.

• Adam Tornhill: Your Code as a Crime Scene - this book teaches you strategies to predict the future of your codebase, assess refactoring direction, and understand how your team influences the design.

• Adam Tornhill: Software Design X-Rays - identify and prioritize technical debt, based on behavioral data from how developers work with code.

• Nicole Forsgen, Jez Humble and Gene Kim: Accelerate: The Science of DevOps, IT Revolution Press, 2018. ISBN 9781942788331.

• Caspers Jones: Software Methodologies - A Quantitative Guide, CRC Press Taylor & Francis Group, LLC, 2018. ISBN 978-1-138-03308-5.

• C. Ravindranath Pandian: Applied Software Risk Management - A Guide for Software Project Managers.

Websites

• Jez Humble: Continous Delivery - A comprehensive summary on continuous delivery.

Learning Platforms

• Lynda
• Microsoft Virtual Academy
• Microsoft Channel 9 (MSDN)
• Pluralsight
• Udemy
• Udacity

Publishers Specialized on Software Crafting Learning Materials

• Pragmatic Bookshelf
• Packt Pub
• Humble Bundle

Cites

When to use iterative development? You should use iterative development only on projects that you want to succeed.

– Martin Fowler.

Kent Beck came up with his four rules of simple design while he was developing ExtremeProgramming in the late 1990’s. I express them like this:

• Passes the tests
• Reveals intention
• No duplication
• Fewest elements

– Martin Fowler