2016-02-15 Monday - Suggested Professional Development Resources

I recently prepared a list of recommended resources for an engineering group, and thought those might also be of interest to others...

Professional Associations

• Association for Computing Machinery
• IEEE
• Software Engineering Institute

Certifications

• TOGAF(tm) Certification
• AWS Certification
  • AWS Certified SysOps Administrator - Associate
  • AWS Certified Developer - Associate
  • AWS Certified DevOps Engineer - Professional
  • AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Associate
  • AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Professional

Sparx Enterprise Architect Documentation

• http://www.sparxsystems.com/enterprise_architect_user_guide/12.1/index/
• http://www.sparxsystems.com/uml-tutorial.html
• http://www.sparxsystems.com/resources/index.html
  • http://www.sparxsystems.com/resources/demos/
  • http://www.sparxsystems.com/resources/webinar/webinar-series.html
  • http://www.sparxsystems.com/resources/booklets/
• http://community.sparxsystems.com/tutorials/760-enterprise-architect-tips-compilation1
• http://community.sparxsystems.com/tutorials/770-enterprise-architect-tips-compilation-2
• Third Party Resources
  • http://www.umlchannel.com/en/enterprise-architect
  • https://leanpub.com/entarch
  • http://www.slideshare.net/pspilling/agile-documentation-with-confluence-and-ea

Interesting Architecture and Software Development Web Sites

• http://highscalability.com/
• http://techblog.netflix.com/
• http://www.onlamp.com/
• http://www.markshuttleworth.com/
• http://www.infoq.com/
• https://medium.com/s-c-a-l-e/
• http://paperswelove.org/
• http://www.martinfowler.com/bliki/
• https://www.innoq.com/blog/st/
• http://www.ibmsystemsmag.com/
• http://www.theserverside.com/
• http://www.adam-bien.com/roller/abien/
• http://www.programmableweb.com/
• https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/
  • https://aws.amazon.com/whitepapers/
  • https://aws.amazon.com/architecture/

UI Specific Resources

• http://www.smashingmagazine.com/

Conferences

• https://qconsf.com/
• http://www.oscon.com
• http://www.thestrangeloop.com/

Online Resources / Books

• https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/
• http://www.redbooks.ibm.com/
• http://overapi.com/
• http://www.commandlinefu.com/commands/browse
• https://www.syncfusion.com/resources/techportal/ebooks

Go Programming

• An Introduction to Programming in Go
• Advanced Go Concurrency Patterns
• Go Concurrency Patterns: Pipelines and cancellation
• https://medium.com/@mandrigin/learning-go-golang-47127a796323
• http://www.iron.io/blog/2015/10/notes-from-gotham-go.html
• https://www.golang-book.com/

git

• https://github.com/github/training-kit
  • https://training.github.com/kit/courses/github-for-developers.html

Books on Amazon...

Every professional craftsman cares about his tools...and knowledge is our most potent tool. Being well-rounded, well-grounded, and well-founded are necessary for a long and successful career...

These books provide good solid coverage of topics that I deem to be the minimal skill set for a professional software engineer

• Eric Freeman, et al
  • Head First Design Patterns
• Robert (aka "Uncle Bob") Martin
  • Software Craftsman: Professionalism, Pragmatism, Pride
  • Clean Code: A Handbook of Agile Software Craftsmanship
  • The Clean Coder: A Code of Conduct for Professional Programmers
• Martin Fowler, et al
  • Patterns of Enterprise Application Architecture
  • Refactoring: Improving the Design of Existing Code
• Gregor Hohpe
  • Enterprise Integration Patterns: Designing, Building, and Deploying Messaging Solutions
• Joshua Kerievsky
  • Refactoring to Patterns
• Thomas Erl
  • SOA Design Patterns

• Jim Webber
  • REST in Practice: Hypermedia and Systems Architecture

• Arnon Rotem-Gal-Oz
  • SOA Patterns

• Eric Evans
  • Domain-Driven Design: Tackling Complexity in the Heart of Software
• Eric Gamma, et al
  • Design Patterns: Elements of Reusable Object-Oriented Software
• Andrew Hunt
  • The Pragmatic Programmer: From Journeyman to Master
• Frederick P. Brooks, Jr.
  • The Mythical Man-Month: Essays on Software Engineering
• Harold Abelson, et al
  • Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs
• Michael T. Nygard
  • Release It!: Design and Deploy Production-Ready Software
• Neal Ford
  • Functional Thinking: Paradigm Over Syntax
• Thomas H. Cormen, et al
  • Introduction to Algorithms
• Peter Norvig, Stuart Russell
  • Artificial Intelligence: A Modern Approach
• Len Bass, et al.
  • Software Architecture in Practice
  • Documenting Software Architectures: Views and Beyond
• Dean Wampler
  • Programming Scala: Scalability = Functional Programming + Objects