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Last wednesday group of 7 people (progres! :) meet and talked about book and I found it really fun to organize it.  Unfortunately One book that I wanted to read last month was to big for me (SICP). Right now I'm at about 60% of it...   About 50% I have decided to read something lighter and make small break. For that I have started One Small Step Can Change Your Life: The Kaizen Way by Robert Maurer Ph.D. Filozofia Kaizen : This if Polish translation of this short book and I found it really fun and easy to read. I like how agile (even agilemanifesto) it is. I have read for those small little ideas in this book. I'm still thinking how practical it is in the long term without help of coach/friend that would help you decide what you want to do and when to change this one small thing to something slightly bigger. Takeout: Try revolutionary changes in life but if failed go to Kaizen (or start with it) and build habit fixing you life one small/silly problem at ...

If you want to learn JavaScript but you are short on money  http://jsbooks.revolunet.com/ is really impressive initiative to create list of free books on JavaScript and front end development.  I have read some of them and they are really good books. Free doesn't mean they are worse than paid ones.

My plans from last month went all wrong... I've done much less that I planned and at the same time I have read 4 really long books that I got for birthday (sum about 2600 pages) so I've spend two entire weeks on them. But let's review some books: Design for Hackers by David Kadavy This is really good book! I can strongly recommend it. I'm not really any graphic designer, or really into drawing but nonetheless book was fun. For me it was great to get general ideas about graphics and design. Some rules are really, really old and I sill remember some of them from my primary school, it was great refresher! If you want to know more about design just read it :) Lean Startup by Eric Ries  Book is good but next to me in the office sits guy that talks about ideas from this book all the time so it wasn't really "new" and revolutionary for me. Many times I get frustrated by slow pace of book (because I know it), but it is easy to understand ...

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: