Been looking at the MongoDB functions for the past few days. Interesting to see what has changed in them from previous releases.
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#12lispbuilder-sdl
Hacked together a game while doing laundry the other day with it. Read the source later to get an idea of what was going on under the hood. It's good stuff.
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#13I have read through dmenu a few times the past couple days.
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#14Reddit's source code : http://code.reddit.com/
I'm far from being done and don't intend to read all of it, it isn't easy because it's huge !
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#15I have read through the modifications made to the Linux kernel by the Xenomai project ( http://www.xenomai.org/ ) lately. Its interesting to read up on how they work together with Linux in a symbiotic way.
Gave me some insight into how they created a dual kernel system.
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#16I highly recommend reading through Lamson. Zed Shaw's rants may rub me the wrong way on occasion, but he's a seriously good coder. Lamson is fantastically well-written and documented.
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#17Code Complete 2nd edition
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#18Been reading the OpenCV Python extension samples and writing a couple small apps.
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#19Code Complete 2nd edition
I see this recommended everywhere, so I nabbed it from a library a while ago. My two cents (for others, not picking on you, rhythmAddict):
Ick. Bloated with manager-speak, light on quality suggestions, and massive. Not worth your time. Reading a few coding-suggestion articles here is significantly more likely to improve your code quality.
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#20I have been reading the R base library code, mainly to understand the graphics functions. I'm amazed how simple and ordinary it looks. I have never worked on a big software project and it's exciting for me to see how something powerful is built from small chunks here and there. Last year I spent some time reading the arc source code. It was a lot of fun. I didn't know any Lisp, so the recursions and macros were hard…
That's an awesome book. Anyone interested in Javascript as a language, not just the browser library operations, should definitely read through it.
edit: Disclaimer for any planning on buying it: it only covers the language. There's no browser interaction code at all. I've seen a few people surprised / annoyed at that, but it keeps it lean and focused.