Books

These are books I personally recommend often (there are more in the DevOps section below)

• Pragmatic Programmer
  • This should be read by all developers. It has timeless advice on approaching programming that I first read in college and then recently again.
• The Art of Unit Testing
  • If you are wondering why or how to get started with Unit Testing, or want to write more maintainable tests, this is the book to read.
  • Get the newest revision.
  • Website
• Clean Architecture - Bob Martin
• Clean Code - Bob Martin
  • Website
• More Book recommendations
• My book stack 2019

See more in the sections below.

Programming

• Hashnode - Premier social network for software developers
• Stack Share News
• So you want to be a web developer videos with Dan Wahlin
• Discover .Net
• Free Syncfusion ebooks

Podcasts

• WeeklyDevTips from @ardalis - 5 to 10 minute segments start at 0 and work your way through them
• DotNetRocks
• JAM Stack podcast
  • Learn about the JAM Stack (JavaScript, API, Markup) ideas.
• Syntax.Fm - “A Tasty Treats Podcast for Web Developers.”
• The Ultimate Podcast Directory for Software Developers
• Coding Blocks Podcast
  • They talk about design patterns and other software related topics in depth. I’ve learned a lot from their Clean Architecture discussions
• Herding Code Podcast
• The World and Everything In It - news from Biblical perspective
• DotNetCore Podcast
• Azure DevOps Podcast

DevOps

• Sooner Safer Happier - Jonathan Smart+
• The Phoenix Project - Gene Kim
  • If you are going to read one book about DevOps, read this one.
• Accelerate - Gene Kim, Jez Humble, Nicole Forsgren
  • Now my second book to recommend after The Phoenix Project. Uses research of data from the State of DevOps Surveys and Reports to find 24 capabilities and predictors of high performing organizations.
  • I’ll be recommending it to all how I work with.
  • Published in 2018
• The Unicorn Project - November 2019
  • Parallels the Phoenix Project, but focused on the software side.
  • listen to 4 chapters for free
• Spotify Engineering Culture part 1 Agile Enterprise Transition with Scrum and Kanban 1
• Spotify Engineering Culture part 2
• The DevOps Handbook
  • This book builds on The Phoenix Project, references many other books and shows how to actually bring in DevOps to your organization.
• Continuous Delivery - Jez Humble and others
  • The de facto book on CD.
• Continuous Delivery With Visual Studio ALM 2015
  • December 24, 2015, step by step instructions on how to do Continous Delivery, testing, deployment, setting up test environments and even running Selenium tests in the build (something I failed to figure out on my own). They even show how to setup SonarQube and using these ideas on a “real” project.
• Signup for the DevOps Newsletter from Gene Kim at ITRevolution

UX

• Don’t Make Me Think, Revisited: A Common Sense Approach to Web Usability (Voices That Matter)
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Magazines and Newsletters

• Dzone
  • Sign up for their email newsletter. I’ve read countless valuable articles. The Refz Cards are very good as well.
• DotNetCurry
  • a great monthly digital .Net programming magazine.
• JSWeekly
  • weekly JavaScript email newsletter
• DotNetWeekly
  • weekly .Net email newsletter
• Angular Newsletter
  • weekly Angular email newsletter
• FrontEnd Focus
  • “roundup of the best frontend news, articles and tutorials. HTML, CSS, WebGL, Canvas, browser technology, and more.”
• Mobile Web Weekly
• PWA Weekly
• Pony Foo Weekly
  • “A newsletter about the open web, highlighting the most important news about the web every Thursday”
• Aurelia Weekly
  • “A newsletter about Aurelia”
• DevOps, Git, and Agile updatesfrom the team building VSTS
  • DevOps blog from Microsoft. You can subscribe to this
• Dan Wahlin’s Flipboards on technology topics
• MSDN Magazine
  • sign up for a paper copy for free with your MSDN subscription! No longer available after 2019 :-(

Learning

• Learn Anything
• Microsoft Learn
• Microsoft on EDX
• PluralSight
• Your Career in Web Development Starts Here - free courses

Tools

• Ditto - Clipboard manager that works with Windows 10
• My Facts on Codealike - track your programming focus

Referrals

• Join Celsius Network - “unbank yourself”. Earn interest on your crypto.You get $50 after a $400 transfer that’s left in for 30 days. I get $50 too. Don’t forget to apply promo codes to get extra bonuses.
• Nexo Crypto Currencies - Earn interest on your crypto. - For every friend who tops up $100 or more, we’ll reward both of you with $25 in BTC. Earn additional rewards from our $100,000 prize pool for Platinum users.
• Kingdom Trust Roth IRA - you can own Bitcoin and others in a Roth IRA! “When you refer a friend, they get $50 in bitcoin and you get $50 in bitcoin (up to $250)”
• Cointracker.io - I get $10, you get $10. This is great for tracking prices across wallets
• Coinbase - get your Bitcoin and Ethereum with Coinbase. “You will both get $10 of free Bitcoin when your friend buys or sells at least $100 of digital currency.”
• Crypto StarName address - not a referral, but you could send me some coins :-)
• Logojoy - I created and bought my logo from this site. It was super easy!

Health

• The AutoImmune Protocol has been extremely helpful to me. Changing what you eat can help you heal. You don’t have to take NSAIDS!
• Eat to Live: The Amazing Nutrient-Rich Program for Fast and Sustained Weight Loss, Revised Edition
  • Eat to live instead of living to eat. Watching your diet can improve your health, make you feel better and improve your concentration.
• Treat your own back
  • I had some back issues in 2017, along with chiropractor help and the exercises he recommended, I also read and incorporated these ideas.
• BeeYoutiful store
  • BerryWell and natural supplements
• Happy Gut - your gut is a massive organ and like a second brain. It’s essential to have a happy gut to have a good immune system, etc.

Christianity

• The Story
• Sermons
• Desiring God
• How is Jesus?

Note: Follow me on Twitter to keep up with other resources I like to share.

Enjoy!

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