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If you read just one of these best programming books this year you'll be a step ahead of nearly everyone around you. That's because, according to Steve McConnell, the author of Code Compete, one book is more than most programmers read each year. Pro…

If you read just one of these best programming books this year you'll be a step ahead of nearly everyone around you. That's because, according to Steve McConnell, the author of Code Compete, one book is more than most programmers read each year. Pro…

Old Coders: When Programming Is a Second Career http://abid.es/1rgLuhp via @mashable

Great books to read / review before your next programming interview

TROLOL Ruby > JavaScript. Opal a new_hope slides: http://abid.es/17T0cZ7 Any Sufficiently complicated JS program contains...version of ruby

Sublime Text intro, recommended packages, and keyboard shortcuts

Vote on what you use to deploy Ruby on Rails apps and see what others are voting on 

"State Machine comes to the rescue when models in your application need statuses and events. There is a #state_machine gem for #ruby. I recommend you to spend some time studying basics before you start using it"

"For every other project, the requirement of using SSL/HTTPS crops up. And I'm sure, just like me, you were annoyed that there doesn't seem to be a simple way to test your SSL stuff in your local development environment. Well: Not any more. Here's how you set up your local Rails environment so that you can use SSL in development if you want or need to."

"This article gives you a structured and insightful road map on how you should learn JavaScript properly and thoroughly. You do want to learn JavaScript; it is why you are here, and you have made a wise decision, for if you want to develop modern websites and web applications (including an internet startup), you need to know JavaScript. And while there are more than enough online resources to teach you JavaScript, finding the most efficient and beneficial method to learn the "language of the web" is not easy and could be frustrating. This course outline is as valuable as any college course (or a few courses combined), because if you complete it, you will have learned enough to develop modern web applications, and consequently you will have become a highly sought-after programmer-JavaScript developers are in high demand today."

As a computer science graduate you will encounter data-structures almost everyday and its worth having an implementation level experience of these abstract data structures. Its a great plus in enhancing your problem solving skills.