Author highlights

Jon Hoffman
Author of Mastering Swift 3 for Linux, Swift 3 Protocol-Oriented Programming, and Mastering Swift 3.
“I love hearing about children learning to program and if my books help that is awesome.”

“The Internet of Things and cognitive technologies are shaping the IT landscape and defining future applications and workloads.”

“An exciting trend on the horizon is Big Data and Machine Learning driving’bots’ combined with content management systems.”

Marco Schwarz
Author of Internet of Things with the Arduino Yún
“I think the Internet of Things is definitely the most exciting trend at the moment.”

Piergiorgio Lucidi
Author of GateIn Cookbook and Alfresco 3 Web Services
“The Open Source Way is increasingly delivering quality and transparency across many market sectors.”

Randall Smith
Author of Docker Orchestration.
“The infrastructure as code paradigm has been a huge win for the industry.”
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I simply love working on computers. It really never mattered what I was doing, which has lead me through several different paths.
Young developers today don’t need an advice. They have fewer inhibitions, are more confident, and are willing to go all out.
You could argue that my success is a result of me embracing technologies that minimize the amount of code I have to write.
I don’t really see myself as a developer, more of a hobbyist who likes to share with the world what I am doing.
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