Study

• Google I/O 2011: Life in App Engine Production
• Google I/O 2011: More 9s Please: Under The Covers of the High Replication Datastore
• The Art of Unix Programming
  • Chapter 1: Philosophy
  • Chapter 2: Origins and History of Unix
  • Chapter 3: Contrasts
    • Operating System Comparisons
    • What Goes Around Comes Around
  • Chapter 4: Modularity
    • Compactness
    • Orthogonality
    • The SPOT Rule
    • Software Is a Many-Layered Thing
  • Chapter 5: Textuality
    • The Pros and Cons of File Compression
    • Application Protocol Design
  • Chapter 6: Transparency
  • Chapter 7: Multiprogramming
    • Taxonomy of Unix IPC Methods
    • Problems and Methods to Avoid
    • Process Partitioning at the Design Level
• Python
  • Common Questions
    • Difference between class A(object): and class A:
    • How are arguments passed - by reference or by value?
    • Sum/multiply all the elements in a list
    • Difference between tuples and list
    • What are decorators and what is their usage?
  • Common Mistakes
    • Misusing expressions as defaults for function arguments
• Project Management
  • Agile
    • Predictive vs Adaptive
    • Putting People First
    • The Self-Adaptive Process
    • Flavors of Agile Development
    • Should you go agile?
  • Others
    • User Stories
    • Burndown Charts
    • Agile Fluency
    • Managing Deadlines
• Programming
  • Character Encodings For Modern Programmers
    • UNIX, Terminals, and C1
    • DOS/Windows
    • Programming With 8-Bit Encodings
    • Multibyte Encodings
    • Pre-Unicode Summary
    • Unicode
    • Basic Programming With Unicode