Dave Thomas speaking at the Pasadena Rails Studio

Dave Thomas (born 1956) 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 ''Programming Ruby'' is a book about the Ruby programming language by Dave Thomas and Andrew Hunt, authors of ''The Pragmatic Programmer''. In the Ruby community, it is commonly known as "The PickAxe" because of the pickaxe on the cover. The boo ...

: 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 ''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. ...

, * ''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 Agile may refer to: * Agile, an entity that possesses agility Project management * Agile software development, a development method * Agile construction, iterative and incremental construction method * Agile learning, the application of incre ...

'', Dave Thomas,

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, 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,

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, 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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