Issue #130

28 February 2019


*|MC:SUBJECT|*

Share what you’re reading with the rest of the community by emailing it to share@pointer.io
Pointer.io
Four Startup Engineering Killers
- Nemil Dalal, Writer, Stanford Electrical Engineer/MBA
#BestPractices
10 Python File System Methods You Should Know
- Jeff Hale, Data Scientist and COO at Rebel Desk
#Python
6 Not So Obvious Things About ElasticSearch
- Dariusz Mydlarz, Java Programmer 
#ElasticSearch
No Code? No Problem  —  Writing Tests in Plain English
- Naidele Manjunath, Software Engineer at The New York Times Test Automation Team & Olivier De Meulder, Engineering Manager at The New York Times Subscription Platforms Group
#Testing
The Philosophies Of Software Languages, From Plankalkül To C
- Adam Zachary Wasserman, CEO at Neonto
#Theory
SQL: One Of The Most Valuable Skills
- Craig Kerstiens, Head of Cloud Team at Citus Data 
#SQL
When Algorithms Think You Want To Die 
- Ysabel Gerrard, Lecturer in Digital Media and Society at the Department of Sociological Studies, University of Sheffield and Tarletin Gillespie, Principal Researcher at Microsoft Research New England
#General
Getting Hooked on React Hooks
 - Ruben Martinez Jr., Web & iOS Engineer at OkCupid
#React
The Ultimate Guide to Meditation for Programmers
- Daragh Byrne, Founder of Coding Mindfully and Delivery Lead at No Moss Co
#Wellness
Handling Time Zone in JavaScript
- Dongwoo Kim, Senior Front-end Engineer at NHN Entertainment
#JS
Black and White Image Colorization With OpenCV and Deep Learning
- Adrian Rosebrock, PhD, Author, Entrepreneur. Founder at PyImageSearch
#Python
Highlights from Git 2.21
- Taylor Blau, Infrastructure Engineer at GitHub
#Git

 A quick message from Pointer

Your feedback is immensely valuable, your time is gold.  

Here are 3 short questions designed for you to provide feedback on Pointer. Thank you!
 
Notable Developer Conferences 2019
QCon (March 4-6)
London, UK
DevNexus (March 6-8)
Atlanta, GA, USA
ConFoo (March 13-15)
Montreal, Canada
Strata Data Conf (March 27-28)
San Francisco, CA, USA
React Amsterdam (April 10-12)
Amsterdam, Netherlands
SmashingConf (April 16-17)
California, USA 
Devoxx (April 17-19)
Paris, France
GOTO Chicago (April 28-May 2)
Chicago, USA
DockerCon (April 29-May 2)
San Francisco, USA
RailsConf (April 30-May 2)
Minneapolis, USA
Microsoft Build (May 6-8)
Seattle, Washington, USA
PHP[tek] (May 21 - 23)
Atlanta, Georgia, USA
GlueCon (May 22-23)
Broomfield, Colorado, USA
OSCON (July 17-18)
Portland, Oregon, USA
Open Source Summit (July 17-19)
Tokyo, Japan
GopherCon (July 24-27)
San Diego, California, USA
ApacheCon (Sept 9–12)
Las Vegas, Nevada, USA
Strange Loop (Sept 12-14)
St. Louis, Missouri, USA 
DjangoCon US (Sept 22-27)
San Diego, CA
Oracle CodeOne (Sept 16–19)
SF, California 
React Day Berlin (Nov 30)
Berlin, Germany
Microsoft Ignite (Nov 4-8)
Orlando, Florida, USA
dotJS (Dec 5-6)
Paris, France
DevTernity (December 6-7)
Riga, Latvia
---