Dave Thomas speaking at the Pasadena Rails Studio

Dave Thomas (born 1960) is a computer programmer, author and editor. He has written about

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and together with Andy Hunt, he co-authored ''

The Pragmatic Programmer ''The Pragmatic Programmer: From Journeyman to Master'' is a book about computer programming and software engineering, written by Andrew Hunt and David Thomas and published in October 1999. It is used as a textbook in related university courses. ...

'' and runs The Pragmatic Bookshelf publishing company. Thomas moved to the United States from England in 1994 and lives north of

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. Thomas coined the phrases 'Code Kata' and ' DRY' (Don't Repeat Yourself), and was an original signatory and author of The Manifesto for Agile Software Development. He studied

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Works

* ''The Pragmatic Programmer'', Andrew Hunt and David Thomas, 1999, Addison Wesley, . * '' Programming Ruby: A Pragmatic Programmer's Guide'', David Thomas and Andrew Hunt, 2000, Addison Wesley, * ''Pragmatic Version Control Using CVS'', David Thomas and Andrew Hunt, 2003, The Pragmatic Bookshelf, * ''Pragmatic Unit Testing in Java with JUnit'', Andrew Hunt and David Thomas, 2003, The Pragmatic Bookshelf, * ''Pragmatic Unit Testing in C# with Nunit'', Andrew Hunt and David Thomas, 2004, The Pragmatic Bookshelf, * ''Programming Ruby (2nd Edition)'', Dave Thomas, Chad Fowler, and Andrew Hunt, 2004, The Pragmatic Bookshelf, * ''Pragmatic Unit Testing in C# with Nunit, 2nd Edition'', Andy Hunt and David Thomas with Matt Hargett, 2007, The Pragmatic Bookshelf, * '' Agile Web Development with Rails'', Dave Thomas,

David Heinemeier Hansson David Heinemeier Hansson, also known by his initials DHH, is a Danish software engineer, programmer, writer, entrepreneur, and racing driver. He is the creator of Ruby on Rails, a web framework written in Ruby. He is also a partner and chief t ...

, Andreas Schwarz, Thomas Fuchs, Leon Breedt, and Mike Clark, 2005, Pragmatic Bookshelf, * ''Agile Web Development with Rails (2nd edition)'', Dave Thomas, with David Heinemener Hansson, Mike Clark, Justin Gehtland, James Duncan Davidson, 2006, Pragmatic Bookshelf, * ''Programming Elixir: Functional , > Concurrent , > Pragmatic , > Fun'', Dave Thomas, foreword by

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the creator of

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, and edited by Lynn Beighley, 2014, Pragmatic Bookshelf,

References

External links

pragprog.com
website for the Pragmatic Programmers
Dave Thomas's Blog

CodeKata

Dave Thomas Interview: The Corruption of Agile; Ruby and Elixir; Katas and More, Dr.Dobb's, March 18, 2014.
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