Pragmatic Programmer, Pragmatic Bookshelf
Andy Hunt is a programmer turned consultant, author and publisher. He authored the best-selling book "The Pragmatic Programmer" and five others, was one of the 17 founders of the Agile Alliance, and co-founded the Pragmatic Bookshelf, publishing award-winning and critically acclaimed books for software developers.Presentations by Andy Hunt
Keynote: How Hard Can It Be?
Does creating software have to be so hard?Pragmatic Learning
How you learn new technology and acquire new skills is key to your personalsuccess. But how do you learn how to learn? What tricks tips can you use to learn more faster, and retain more of what you learn?
Refactoring Your Wetware
Software development happans in your head; not in an editor, IDE, or designtool. We're well educated on how to work with software and hardware, but what
about wetware -- our own brains?
Books by Andy Hunt
by Andrew Hunt and David Thomas
- The one that started it all :-)
- Available At: www.pragmaticprogrammer.com/ppbook
by Andy Hunt and Dave Thomas
- Introduction on how to think about unit testing.
- Available At: www.pragmaticprogrammer.com/starter_kit/ut
by Venkat Subramaniam and Andy Hunt
- Learn how to work using agile practices in the real world.
- Available At: www.pragmaticprogrammer.com/titles/pad
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Monday, March 26, 2007
There’s a decent review of our recent TextMate book on Slashdot for those who follow such things.
Predictably, the ensuing discussion has little to do with the book :-)
Thursday, March 22, 2007
Practices of An Agile Developer, by Venkat Subramaniam and Andy Hunt (that’s me), won a Jolt Productivity Award at the 17th Annual Jolt Awards held last night.
That’s three awards for three times up at bat for the Pragmatic Bookshelf :-)
Congratulations to all the winners, and especially to our friend Alistair Cockburn.
Tuesday, March 20, 2007
We had a fun and successful science fair at my children’s school last week. I’m pleased to report that casualties were kept to a minimum, and most of the injured have been released in guarded condition.
Repairs to building itself began promptly on Monday, and it should only be a few weeks of minor inconvenience until everything is back to normal.
While I didn’t personally witness the fire in the library, we suspected that cotton balls and an artificial smoking apparatus were involved.
The building-wide power outage was a special treat. At first, we thought the extra large Van DeGraff generator had simply pulled too much current and blown a breaker. But the whole building went dark, not just that one room.
Turns out there was a substation fire downtown that took out our lights (and those of about 40,000 other customers). I was delighted to hear that news, because that meant…
WE DIDN’T DO IT.
Friday, March 9, 2007
One of the foundations of the Pragmatic Programmer philosophy is to always test your assumptions.
Is your computer ready for the newly revised US Daylight Savings Time rules? You can check it by visiting dst.umn.edu
Enjoy!
Monday, March 5, 2007
We went to see Billy Joel in concert this weekend. I was a little concerned that this would be disappointing: if you’ve seen picture of him lately he looks more like Alan King than Billy Joel.
We had great seats—floor, 7th row center. We’d see every detail, for better or worse.
As it turned out, it was an awesome concert. No ballads, no crappy Uptown Girl pop junk. Despite his advancing age (he jokingly introduced himself as “Billy Joel’s Dad”), he pulled it off with power and conviction. Would that we all had that level of energy and intensity at any age.
He played a lot of B-sides and lesser heard pieces, including a ferocious version of Zanzibar, featuring some stratospheric trumpet and flugel horn by budding Maynard Ferguson wanna-be Carl Fischer.
He also played a couple of ragtime bits (well, one full one and a couple of bits of noodling in between pieces).
Then, for added punch (and to rest his hands from those 64-note runs while he played guitar), he brought on a roadie who goes by the nickname “Chainsaw” to belt out a marvelous tribute to AC/DC’s “Highway to Hell”. Billy told us to consider this song as we drove home from the arena, and sure enough, the mis-managed traffic in the parking lot of the RBC center did not disappoint.
Other than that, two thumbs way up.
