Professional Development – 7/25/16 – 7/31/16

Software Development

• Naming Things
• Struggling with Readability in Functional Programming (with Euler Problem #6 in F#)
• Staying Clean
• F# gotchas for C# developers
• Teaching Functional Programming To Kids
• The Shocking Secret About Static Types
• F# decompiled into C#
• A founder’s perspective on 4 years with Haskell
• Real functional programmers don’t need functional languages!

Career

• The Pragmatic Programmer: From Journeyman to Master by Andrew Hunt and Dave Thomas (book)
• The Business-Personal Value Continuum
• Peopleware: Productive Projects and Teams (3rd Edition) by Tom DeMarco and Tim LIster (book)
• The full-stack employee

Process

• The Dreaded Weekly Status Email
• How We Lost 47% of Our Users After a Redesign

Culture

• The Churn
• Discover the Good: Object Oriented & Functional Programming
• Questions for our first 1:1
• Self-care matters: Pay yourself first