Currently am on a contract, building APIs for the Valuation Office Agency, transforming the way agents interact with the VOA.

• Coursera certificate - Functional Programming Principles in Scala
• Coursera certificate - Functional Program Design in Scala
• Oracle Certified Associate, Java SE 7 Programmer
• Oracle Certified Professional, Java SE 7 Programmer II
• Oracle Certified Expert, Java EE6 Web Component Developer

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July 2018 update:

Books currently on my desk: (see my goodreads for up-to-date info)

• Functional and Reactive Domain Modeling
• Practical Vim, 2nd Edition

(Great) books I parked (for now):

• Reactive Messaging Patterns with the Actor Model: Applications and Integration in Scala and Akka
• Functional Programming in Scala
• Learn You a Haskell for Great Good
• A Practical Guide to Ubuntu Linux
• Domain-Driven Design: Tackling Complexity in the Heart of Software

Plan to look into:

• Play framework
• Linux administration
• Dale Carnegie books (various)

Read cover-to-cover:

• Advanced Scala with Cats
• Clean Code
• Release It! - Design and Deploy Production-Ready Software
• The Phonix Project
• Spring in Action (3rd edition)
• Pragmatic Scala - Create Expressive, Concise, and Scalable Applications
• UML distilled, 2nd edition
• Pro C# 2010 and the .NET 4 Platform
• The Art of Unit Testing: With Examples in C#

Read selectively:

• The Well-Grounded Java Developer - Vital Techniques of Java 7 and polyglot programming
• Switch - how to change things when change is hard
• Practical Unit Testing with JUnit and Mockito
• Effective Java, second edition
• Java Concurrency in Practice