Please take a look my new https://z-developers.com website (and maybe get some Christmas shopping done)

In order to help with the "Generation Z Developers" book I'm writing, I created the https://z-developers.com website to centralise all content and products I created based on the book.

It would be great if you could take a look and share it with your friends :)

Just published new version of "Generation Z Developers" book (v0.60)

I've been working on a new book called "Generation Z Developers" and I really would like your feedback (you can get it for free from Leanpub at https://leanpub.com/generation-z)

In this version:

 - Content fixes and contributions by: Mike Eriksson, Michael Chadwick and Claudio Camerino
 - New book cover
 - New chapters:
    - DOT Language
    - AST (Abstract Syntax Tree)
    - Being criticized is an privilege

Here is the diff with the previous version: v0.50...v0.60]

PDF of 'Generation Z Developer' book (v0.31)

I just pushed an update to the https://leanpub.com/generation-z book I'm currently writing.  You can read this version below (via the embedded pdf) or directly at this GitHub release

Change log for this version:

• Added initial section which shows issues from GitHub
• New/Improved chapters
• "The future needs you
• "Backup your life"
• Couple content fixes

Published "SecDevOps Risk Workflow" book (v0.66)

Here is the text I just sent to the current 215 readers of my SecDevOps Risk Workflow book

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Hi, here is v0.66

The reason you have not seen an update for a month is because I focused my writting time on the 'Hacking Portugal' book which you can get from Amazon (https://www.amazon.co.uk/Hacking-Portugal-Making-Software-Development/dp/1540743632) or Leanpub (https://leanpub.com/hacking-portugal)

That book is an expanded version of the keynote presentation I delivered at BSidesLisbon (see http://blog.diniscruz.com/2016/11/presentation-hacking-portugal-and.html) and it is my first book published on Amazon :)

Please review the 'Hacking Portugal' book available on Amazon (paperback and Kindle)

My 'Hacking Portugal' book is now available on Amazon and I would really appreciate your feedback and ideally an book review :)

Here is the Amazon page: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Hacking-Portugal-Making-Software-Development/dp/1540743632

You can download the PDF for free at LeanPub or from GitHub

This is my first book published at Amazon, and I have to admit that I'm quite proud of it :)

This book is based on the "Hacking Portugal and making it a global player in Software development" presentation I delivered at that BSidesLisbon and C-Days conferences (November 2016). All content is released under an Creative Commons licence at the Book_Hacking_Portugal GitHub repo

Published 'Hacking Portugal' Book

I just published the 'Hacking Portugal' book which is based on the "Hacking Portugal and making it a global player in Software development"  presentation I delivered at BSidesLisbon in November 2016.

You can get it from amazon

or at  https://leanpub.com/hacking-portugal/

Published "SecDevOps Risk Workflow" book (v0.65)

I just published version v0.65 of the SecDevOps Risk Workflow book.

You can get the book (for free) at https://leanpub.com/secdevops (when you become a reader you will get email alerts with every release)

The diff for this version (with v0.63) shows 115 commits, 59 changed files, 545 additions and 355 deletions.

Published "SecDevOps Risk Workflow" book (v0.63)

I just published version v0.63 of the SecDevOps Risk Workflow book.

You can get the book (for free) at https://leanpub.com/secdevops (when you become a reader you will get email alerts with every release)

The diff for this version (with v0.60) shows 113 commits, 63 changed files, 667 additions and 185 deletions.

"JIRA Risk Workflow" Book , alpha version published at Leanpub

To expand the ideas I presented with Using JIRA to manage RISKS,  I decided to create a smallish book focused on how that workflow works. 

A key objective is to document the workflow better and allow to teams to implement it using their own version of JIRA (I have done multiple presentations where one of the follow up questions is "Ok, we like it, now what")

You can get this book from Leanpub (with option to get it for free) at 

https://leanpub.com/jira-risk-workflow

Please take a look and let me know what you think of the structure, font, layout, order, content, voice, idea, etc...

6 sections added to Software Quality Book (on AppSec and Testing)

I have been slowing working on my Software Quality book (with tons of notes captured on small Moleskine notebooks and new audio recordings).

Here are the sections I worked on this week:

• Describe Risks as Features rather than as Wishes 
• Protecting Legal and Compliance Text on Websites 
• Application security teams need developers 
• Buying tools for developers 
• Putting Data in PasteBin 
• Creating Small Tests 

Please let me know what you think of them, and if you spot any issues or have comments to make, feel free to open an Issue or send a Pull Request

Started working on new book "Measuring Software Quality using Application Security"

Over the 3 weeks I spent in the US (in an RV with family) I started working on a book based on the ideas shown at the "New Era of Software with modern Application Security" presentation (v1.0).

The current title is "Measuring Software Quality using Application Security" and it is going to be published at LeanPub: https://leanpub.com/Software_Quality

All content is hosted on the public GitHub repo
https://github.com/DinisCruz/Book_Software_Quality/tree/master/content, where you can also see a number of issues I plan to address (including areas for research)

I am currently in the brain dump stage of development, where I'm adding the content I want to talk about (in a kinda-structured way). The idea is to expand the bullet points into text and normalise the content in logical areas (some topics already have a first pass at expanding the ideas into final text).

Published Beta version of "Thoughts on OWASP" eBook

After releasing the "Practical AngularJS",  Practical Git and GitHub,  Practical Jni4Net and Practical Eclipse books, here is an equivalent book containing my OWASP related blog posts.

This new eBook has 165 pages and is made of 67 blog posts published in the last couple years.

The posts are grouped by topic and represent a lot of my thinking about OWASP, the current AppSec industry and other philosophical ideas.

This eBook is available at https://leanpub.com/Thoughts_OWASP

Published Beta version of "Practical Eclipse Plugin Development" eBook

After releasing the "Practical AngularJS",  Practical Git and GitHub and Practical Jni4Net books, here is an equivalent book containing my Eclipse related blog posts.

This new book has 363 pages and is made of 33 blog posts published in the last 9 months.

As with the first release of the other books, I'm starting with the original chronological/published order, and will try later to figure out a better logical way to group these posts together.

The article's Html was converted by LeanPub into Markdown, who also created the eBook versions linked below (pdf, mobi, epub and online)

Published Beta version of "Practical Jni4Net" eBook

After releasing "Practical AngularJS" and Practical Git and GitHub, here is an equivalent book containing my Jni4Net related posts.

This new book has 74 pages and is made of 13 blog posts published in the last 16 months.

As with the first release of the other books, I'm starting with the original chronological/published order, and will try later to figure out a better logical way to group these posts together.

The article's Html was converted by LeanPub into Markdown, who also created the eBook versions linked below (pdf, mobi, epub and online)

Published Beta version of "Practical Git and GitHub" eBook

After releasing "Practical AngularJS", here is an equivalent book containing my Git and GitHub related posts.

The book has 411 pages and is made of 60 blog posts published in the last 18 months.

As with the first release of the AngularJS book, I'm starting with the original chronological/published order, and will try later to figure out a better logical way to group these posts together.

The article's Html was converted by LeanPub into Markdown, who also created the eBook versions linked below (pdf, mobi, epub and online)

Published Beta version of "Practical AngularJS" Book (in both digital and print format)

I just released a book based on the 23 AngularJS posts currently published in this blog (as a public beta).

The article's Html was converted by LeanPub into Markdown, who also created the eBook versions linked below (pdf, mobi, epub and online). The printed version was created at lulu.

At the moment the book can be downloaded for free and the book has a small markup (you can also chose to pay for the digital version).

Please take a look and let me know what you think of the structure, font, layout, order, content, voice, idea, etc...

Here are the links to the multiple places you can get the book:

• eBook (PDF, EPub or MOBI) at Leanpub (I've set the minimum price to zero so you can download it for free)
• Printed book (Paperback, 163 pages) at Lulu.com 
• Online : LeanPub also publishes the entire book available in one long HTML page (note that there are LOTS of images to load in this page)

Book: Sum: Tales from the Afterlives

I just finished reading Sum: Tales from the Afterlives by David-Eagleman, which is a small and easy to read book with lots of great ideas and concepts.

The books is basically 40 mini sci-fi stories about possible scenarios that could happen after we die.

Ironically, and predictably, the side effort of reading these possible scenarios, is to appreciate even more the live we currently live on :)

David is also the author of  Incognito: The Secret Lives of The Brain, which is a book that I started reading on a Kindle, loved it, but never finished. This is another good example of why Kindle/eBooks don't have the same connection with the reader as physical book (see Physical Books are the best technology for reading for a better analysis of why I think that happens).

I have now bought a physical copy of  The Secret Lives of The Brain  and am looking forward to reading it property :)

Lockhart's Mathmatician's Lament, Math's should be treated as Art and the 'dangerous idea' that Zero is

I have a problem with how maths is being taught to our kids.

The best description of the problem I've read is Lockhart's Mathmatician's Lament since it really touches on the fundamental problem that we (as a society) have created:

Maths should be taught as Art, just like Music or Painting , instead of the current 'force feed abstract non-real-work complex set of instructions and concepts'

If you have not read his amazing paper (and you can just start with the first 10 or so pages), do it NOW since it might change how to think about Maths and how they are taught in school.

Physical Books are the best technology for reading, and bookstores should 'give' an eBook with every physical book published

I just bought 5 books at a really nice book store in central London and it is amazing how:

1. these bookstores are still afraid of the digital world 
2. don't have the confidence to say: 

"... If you buy a physical copy, we will give you (or sell for 10%) the eBook version. 

 ... the reason we 'give' you the eBook, is because the 'real' book is much better, but there are places were you might want to use the eBook.."

This is something that I already talked about it in my Why doesn't Waterstones (UK BookStore) also upsell kindle books? post (which has more ideas on what bookstores should do to provide a better service to readers).

Insanely Simple book: Great view into Steve Job's quest for simple solutions

I just read Insanely Simple: The Obsession That Drives Apple's Success and was really inspired by it's peek into Steve Job's mind.

What is really great about the book (and author) is how it shows the decision making process behind Steve/Apple's success.

The key message is how Simple and well designed products/solutions, are a result of a relentless and uncompromising focus on Simplicity.