DiscoPosse Review: Professional Scrum Development with Microsoft Visual Studio 2012

Hot on the heels of reading The Phoenix Project, I finally got a chance to finish up reading the Professional Scrum Development with Microsoft Visual Studio 2012 from Microsoft Press. One thing that I can say for sure is that those two books make a great pairing! As I am diving deep into DevOpsĀ and bringing … Read more

DiscoPosse Review: Ethics of Big Data – Kord Davis and Doug Patterson

One of the interesting topics of Big Data is what an organization will do with it. That topic is nicely handled in Ethics of Big Data by Kord Davis (@KordIndex) and Doug Patterson (@dep923). O’Reilly Press has come to us with some great content with this book. There is a very careful balance with the … Read more

DiscoPosse Review: Cloud Architecture Patterns – Bill Wilder

This book is a great read for any Systems Developer, Systems Admin and technology lover alike. Bill Wilder has presented a great level of detail which could be regarded as 101 to 301 all in the same guide. The book does require understanding of cloud services and general concepts but as the chapters follow a … Read more

DiscoPosse Review: Regular Expressions Cookbook by Jan Goyvaerts and Steven Levithan

If you’ve ever dug into the challenging world of Regular Expressions then you will know just how important a great guide can be. This is that guide. Jan Goyvaerts and Steven Levithan have gone above and beyond what I could have hoped for with the Regular Expressions Cookbook from O’Reilly Media. The book guides you … Read more