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Dave Thomas (born 1956) is a computer programmer, author and editor. He has written about Ruby and together with Andy Hunt, he co-authored '' The Pragmatic Programmer'' and runs The Pragmatic Bookshelf publishing company. Thomas moved to the United States from England in 1994 and lives north of
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.
Computer programmers American technology writers British emigrants to the United States 1956 births Living people {{US-compu-bio-stub
Dave Thomas (born 1956) is a computer programmer, author and editor. He has written about Ruby and together with Andy Hunt, he co-authored '' The Pragmatic Programmer'' and runs The Pragmatic Bookshelf publishing company. Thomas moved to the United States from England in 1994 and lives north of Dallas, Texas
Dallas () is the third largest city in Texas and the largest city in the Dallas–Fort Worth metroplex, the fourth-largest metropolitan area in the United States at 7.5 million people. It is the largest city in and seat of Dallas County wi ...
.
Thomas coined the phrases 'Code Kata' and 'DRY
Dry or dryness most often refers to:
* Lack of rainfall, which may refer to
** Arid regions
** Drought
* Dry or dry area, relating to legal prohibition of selling, serving, or imbibing alcoholic beverages
* Dry humor, deadpan
* Dryness (medica ...
' (Don't Repeat Yourself), and was an original signatory and author of The Manifesto for Agile Software Development. He studied computer science
Computer science is the study of computation, automation, and information. Computer science spans theoretical disciplines (such as algorithms, theory of computation, information theory, and automation) to practical disciplines (includin ...
at Imperial College London.
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, 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
James Duncan Davidson is an American software developer and photographer. He's currently the Technology Advisor to Tobias Lütke, CEO of Shopify.
While a software engineer at Sun Microsystems (1997–2001), Davidson created Tomcat, a Java-bas ...
, 2006, Pragmatic Bookshelf,
* ''Programming Elixir: Functional , > Concurrent , > Pragmatic , > Fun'', Dave Thomas, foreword by José Valim the creator of Elixir, 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.
Computer programmers American technology writers British emigrants to the United States 1956 births Living people {{US-compu-bio-stub