Here are some suggestions of some things to add to your library. They are not typical programming (i.e. language or framework) books, but are instead related more to the art, strategy and creative process of development.
I’ve been working with soap4r in Ruby to access some Java web services which use AXIS 1.1. The particular api I’m accessing requires an initial authentication call which returns a token that must be passed in all subsequent SOAP headers. This is a pretty common scenario, but it took me awhile to get [...]
I ran across this questionairre last summer. It’s one of those cool ideas that can probably only be done a handful of times (maybe only once). Anyway, this guy sent 10 questions to some of the most famous / interesting programmers he could think of and actually got responses.
Some of my favorite questions/answers:
Q: [...]
Lorelle has a really great, long post about Hundreds of Resources for Finding Content for Your Blog. Now that I’ve broken the ice, I’ll have to refer back to her post every once in awhile to keep the ideas coming.
A year or so ago I was trying out the Google Maps API. At the time, Google did not provide a means to geocode your own locations (although now they do), so I set out to create my own geocoder. There was a good overview on how to create your own database of [...]
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