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From  last month I managed to have finished almost everything (counting some changes in my plans). Seven Languages in Seven Weeks by Bruce A. Tate Cover above. Really good book to get taste of different kinds of languages and paradigms. I have spend only 2 weeks on this book because I wanted to get more informed about them, not to learn them deeply. For me it was also chance to be less ignorant in terms of functional languages, especially Erlang, Clojure and Haskell. After reading it I will probably dig more deeply into Clojure/LISP or Haskell. These two looks really impressive and challenging.  Maximize Your Memory Power by Nishant Kasibhatla Really good book full of examples. I really started using some of this techniques. Cheap and short. I can recommend it  :) Make: Electronics. Learning Through Discovery By Charles Platt (3rd chapter) I have learnt how to solder and learnt that my previous attempts were cold solders(?) and were just weak. Right ...

From time to time I stumble upon one of roules in this manifesto. I strongly recommend to get to know them and just try use use them. http://minifesto.org/ Right now for me the first one is the hardest :( Fight for Pareto - dropping features. This is many times connected with Synthesis and working in company/team when there is someone else that designes and plans what to do next in product. Points in manifesto aren't new, and they can be found in many other manifesto's but I think that it's worth a couple of minutes to read them again from time to time.

I want to give some update what I've done Books that I read: The Book of CSS3  by Peter Gasston Make: Electronics. Learning Through Discovery By Charles Platt (2nd chapter) Mixu's Node Book  - pretty well written book about Node.js Single page apps in depth by Mixu as well. The Wise Man's Fear (The Kingkiller Chronicle) by Patrick Rothfuss (really good fantasy!) Pomnik Cesarzowej Achai - ch2 by Andrzej Ziemiański Krav-Maga for beginners. Web Design and Mobile Trends for 201 3 Courses finished: HTML5 Game Development  course on udacity.com Shell-Fu  course on Memrise Talks: DevTank at Interia.pl - I talked about Promises AGH - as one of the speakers, and then on laboratories on Mobile Web. Meet.js Kraków - organizer and speaker. I talked about LeapMotion and how to JS with it :) Maybe more about Meet.js Kraków. This was first time that I was an organizer so pretty big amount of my free time went into that. We get about 18...

A couple of days ago stared really interesting course on Udacity: Interactive 3D Graphics  and I really enjoyed first videos. In my opinion event this first videos looks better than HTML5 Games course I mentioned earlier and I have really high expectations about it! Whats awesome about it is that all of course content is done in WebGL and Three.js so at the same time you can learn both ideas behind it and see it in your browser!  I had idea about learning WebGL this year and this course looks like designed for me :) You can watch teaser below:

Effective JavaScript by David Herman is really good book about JavaScript and I can recommend it to any JS developer. Especially for intermediate ones but even advanced ones will find something interesting. Chapters are really short and concise. Good code examples really help with explaining advanced JavaScript and I can tell that this is one of the best JS book I've read. Book is pretty short: 200 pages but you can learn a lot! I don't want to write about what's there to let you discover it for yourself. From last month: Hexagonal Architecture for SCKRK Meeting Fallen Dragon by Peter F. Hamilton (sci-fi) Effective JS by David Herman Make: Electronics. Learning Through Discovery By Charles Platt (I will finish first chapter in february) Fallen Dragon  by Peter F. Hamilton Fallen Dragon is pretty good book that managed to surprise me a couple of times. I won't call it must-read but good reading is still good reading ;) Vision of future is plausible ...

Last week I gave a talk at Adobe Create the Web + Meet.js Warsaw about Promises. My talk was pretty short (max 20min) but I hope that they get at least  basic idea. My slides are on speakerdeck:  https://speakerdeck.com/krzychukula/promises-promises Hope you find it interesting. I want to thank all my colleagues for helping me to plan this presentation and make it easy enough for 20minutes. Facebook event:  https://www.facebook.com/events/272800652850131/

From my last post:  http://krzychukula.blogspot.com/2013/02/reading-list-update.html Finished: SMACSS  by Jonathan Snook Czytaj dwa razy szybciej! by Marcin Matuszewski (how to read faster) JavaScript Allongé by Reginald Braithwaite The Programmers Stone readlist from blog:  the-programmers-stone.com Now I'm reading: Hexagonal Architecture for SCKRK Meeting Fallen Dragon  by Peter F. Hamilton (sci-fi) Next on my list: Effective JS by David Herman Make: Electronics. Learning Through Discovery By Charles Platt (I will finish first chapter in february) SMACSS Really good book about CSS, architecture of CSS in small to really big projects/websites. How to deal with duplication - especially how to avoid it. There is even a chapter about Preprocessors and I can strongly agree that this is tool that can help you but only if you are conscious about how it works and how CSS it generates looks like. JavaScript Allongé Book that expl...