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So, skimmed through chapter 5. Some concepts from the best practices in chapter 5 are intuitive. Others are not. Concurrency API as well needs some practice for certain parts to be intuitive.

Skimmed through chapter 7, Concurrency API. Now onto Chapter 5. Last 8 est practices left.

Items 16 and 17, items in chapters 5 and 7 left to do

Completed items 1 - 12, 41 and 42

I noticed I'm already familiar with a lot of topics. So, only chapters 41 to 44 left to do

At Topic 11

In computing, the term has come to signify a kind of independence or decoupling. Two or more things are orthogonal if changes in one do not affect any of the others. In a well-designed system, the database code will be orthogonal to the user interface: you can change the interface without affecting the database, and swap databases without changing the interface.

At 14.6, "Journaling File Systems"

Chapter 13, "File I/O Buffering"

At 5.5, "Duplicating File Descriptors"

Skimmed through chapter 2. I pretty much had flashbacks to being in innovation lab sitting in there with a cross-functional team for about 4 months.

Chapter 2 (on page 30),
"If you spend all of your time working alone, you’re increasing the risk of unnecessary failure and cheating your potential for growth. Even though software development is deeply intellectual work that can require deep concentration and alone time, you must play that off against the value (and need!) for collaboration and review."

Chapters left to complete: 1, 2, 3, 6, 8, 9, 13, 14, 15, 19 and 22. (11 chapters left)

Realized that I read chapter 5 already. Skimmed through chapters 11 and 12

Only chapters 19 (Critique) and 22 (Large-Scale Changes) need to be read through for Part IV (Tools)

Skimmed through chapters 17 (Code Search) and chapter 20, (Static Analysis)

Chapter 4 completed

Chapter 4,
"When engineers do not focus on users of different nationalities, ethnicities, races, genders, ages, socioeconomic statuses, abilities, and belief systems, even the most talented staff will inadvertently fail their users."

Chapter 7 completed

Skimmed through chapter 18. I know and used a number of build systems.

Skimmed through chapters 16, 21 and 25. I do know of these and lobbied for them. I setup a local Nuget package manager. Chose hosting options on many occassions.

Skimmed through chapters 9, 10, 24 and 25. I already know these topics, did research and even wrote literature on it.

Chapter 6 - "Control Systems Analysis and Design by the Root-Locus Method"

Skimmed onto Chapter 5. I get the idea. Just that thing about shifting into state space model from page 74