C++

• Iterators and Memberspaces
• Custom Containers & Iterators for STL-Friendly Code | Dr Dobb’s
• STL-style Circular Buffers By Example

Algorithms

• Random Forests in Python
• Basic Machine Learning With K Nearest Neighbor and Racket
• The World’s Simplest Lock-Free Hash Table
• DRY Principles through Python Decorators

Various

• Google Visual Assets Guidelines and Part 2
• Deliberate Programming
• The Death of Network Engineers; Long Live Network Engineers
• The network is reliable

After two solid weeks of nothing but gold from raiding, I finally got some upgrades this week!

• Handwraps of the Exorcist
• Legwraps of the Exorcist

I also finally got the last 2 drops of Sigil of Power to complete The Strength of One’s Foes. Now I just need to re-run ToES again next week to kill the Sha of Fear and get my Crystallized Horror.

I also broke down and bought Enchant Weapon - Jade Spirit and a full set of level upgrades for my Giorgio’s Caduceus of Pure Moods.

Only a couple more 400-level items to replace before I’m done with Chidori unless I start raiding for real. Don’t think that’s going to happen. I just don’t have time to get back into the grind more than I already have.

On an amusing note: a Druid healer in last night’s raid got beat in healing on Sha of Fear by the DK main tank! That’s just sad.

Career

• ABC: Always Be Coding - How to Land an Engineering Job
• Four Steps to Google, Without a Degree
• Get that job at Facebook
• Practicing for Programming Interviews

Google Stuff

• Google I/O 2013 - The Freebase APIs: Tapping into Google’s Knowledge Graph
• Google I/O 2013 - Advanced Go Concurrency Patterns
• GTAC 2013 Keynote: Evolution from Quality Assurance to Test Engineering video and slides

Google

• Get started with Google Cloud Datastore - a fast, powerful, NoSQL database
  Megastore/Bigtable storage now available outside Appengine.
• Get started with App Engine for PHP: scalable, secure and reliable
  Not a PHP fan, but glad to see we’re offering it.
• Google Compute Engine is now open to all
  Now with per-minute billing.
• Networking and Firewalls - Google Compute Engine
  Software-defined networking for Compute Engine VMs.
• Google I/O 2013 session videos
  Lots of good stuff being posted here.

Go

• Go Concurrency Patterns video and Slides
  Nice intro to the basics of concurrent programming in Go
• Concurrency is Not Parallelism video and the Slides
  Another Rob Pike talk Intro to Go Concurrency by Rob Pike, from I/O 2012
• Concurrent Prime Number Sieve in Go
  10 seconds on my dual-core 1.8Ghz i7 Macbook Air to generate the first 10,000 primes.

Not a lot going on in the WoW world. Still raiding LFRs every week, but not a lot of useful drops. I did build up enough Valor points to get Ring of the Shado-Pan Assault, which was a nice upgrade.

Currently working on maxing out Valor points every week to get Wisp-Weave Pantaloons, or Bracers of Shielding Thought, depending on what drops I get in the mean time, but that’s going to take a while.

Hit an amusing milestone on my Warlock tailor this week: I’ve finally run out of new recipes to discover, I think. Three days in a row of no discovery when crafting Imperial Silk. Need to get one of the recipe addons to see which ones I’m still missing.

VIM

• 5 Essential VIM Plugins That Greatly Increase my Productivity
• How do you reload your .vimrc file without restarting vim?
• Bundles on Github
  • gmarik/vundle - alternative to Pathogen
  • ctrlp.vim - fuzzy searching for files, buffers, etc.
  • tomtom/tcomment_vim - smart comment/uncomment
  • Lokaltog/vim-easymotion - jump around by word
  • scrooloose/nerdtree - file browser tree on steroids
  • tpope/vim-surround - work with open/close tags, brackets, etc.
• Dotfiles on Github
  • r00k/dotfiles
  • joelhooks/dotfiles

ZSH

• How zsh is more useful than bash | Hacker News
• Why Zsh is Cooler than Your Shell
• ZSH-LOVERS(1)
• prezto/modules/completion/init.zsh
• r00k/dotfiles - listing it twice, lots of good Vim and ZSH stuff

Sublime Text

• Sublime Package Control
• Sublime Text - getting started guide
• facelessuser/BracketHighlighter

Python

• The Performance Impact of Using dict() Instead of {} in CPython 2.7
• Python Module of the Week
• How I Made Porn 20x More Efficient with Python
• How PyCharm helps you with remote development
• tswicegood/django-timelinejs2 - Django integration for Timeline JS
• Eighteen months of Django and Eighteen Months of Django: Part 2
• jaysonsantos/python-binary-memcached
• The Dynamics of Catching Exceptions in Python

General

• How to setup your Mac automatically with chef
• Read-copy-update - Wikipedia

Data Structures

• Big-O Algorithm Complexity Cheat Sheet
• Data Structures - Cheat Sheet (PDF)

Perl (yes, really!)

• How Perl saved human genome - BioPerl
• The Perl script the powered the Alan Turing petition

General Programming

• How Basecamp Next got to be so damn fast without using much client-side UI
• I was a teenage programmer before teenage programmers were cool
• How to work with software engineers
• The Matasano Crypto Challenges
• Hiatus and Reflections | C++ Soup!

Random Stuff

• 14 Tips to Help New College Grads Land a (Good) IT Job
• China’s Cyberspies Outwit Model for Bond’s Q
• How To Go From $0 To $1,000,000 In Two Years

Couple of nice pieces tonight from some ToT raiding:

• Hood of the Exorcist
• Necklace of the Terra-Cotta Mender (from a gold bag!)

Finally got enough Valor points last night to pick up Necklace of the Terra-Cotta Mender and replace my last blue.

Got Giorgio’s Caduceus of Pure Moods last night, but ended up not using it, since I also got Giorgio’s Caduceus of Pure Moods. Combined with Venomlord’s Totemic Wand, which I already had, main-hand/off-hand is a better mix than the staff.

Also got a nice robe upgrade with Robes of Static Bursts, although still several better slot items there to work towards in the future.

Software Development

• Writing Device Drivers in Linux: A Brief Tutorial
• C++ and Beyond 2013 (Herb Sutter)
• Invent with Python: Encrypt Messages and Hack Ciphers
• Git Titanium Armor: Recovering from Various Disasters
• In Search of an Understandable Consensus Algorithm (PDF)
• Maintainable JavaScript. Video of a talk by Nicolas Zakas. And the slides.

Systems

• The Twelve-Factor App - how to build a robust web application.
• An HTTP Reverse Proxy for Realtime
• Pollymer: general-purpose library for long-polling in Python
• Distributed Computing at Airbnb
• Introducing Cronos: A Replacement for Cron from Airbnb

Various

• Dieter Rams: 10 Principles for Good Design