books by Pragmatic Bookshelf

books by Pragmatic Bookshelf

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Pragmatic Bookshelf

Programming Ruby: The Pragmatic Programmers' Guide, Second Edition

Dave Thomas, Chad Fowler, ...

Pragmatic Bookshelf, 2004

Good Stuff
It's good enough that I refer to it instead of Google for the more mundane bits.

Agile Web Development with Rails, 2nd Edition

David Hansson, Leon Breedt, ...

Pragmatic Bookshelf, 2006

Great Book - But Wait to Buy
This is THE book for Rails. Top notch...only WAIT to buy it. As others have said, there is a new edition coming out soon that covers Rails 2.0. Of course...if you can't wait, go to the publisher's web page. They are selling copies of this edition for 50% off, while ...

Agile Retrospectives: Making Good Teams Great

Esther Derby, Diana Larsen, ...

Pragmatic Bookshelf, 2006

Must-read for any scrum master
This is a really useful book. Most practical. Being into scrum (sort of) for 3 months, we've tried to change our retrospective meeting agenda applying methods from this book. We did this just once as yet, and applied only a single combination of methods from virtually ...

My Job Went to India: 52 Ways to Save Your Job (Pragmatic Programmers)

Chad Fowler

Pragmatic Bookshelf, 2005

Funny name, Serious Book
"Pragmatic Bookshelf" has a solid reputation for publishing great books and this book is no exception. This one ranks right up there with books like "The Pragmatic Programmer" and "Code Complete". With small bite sized chapters with specific and pointed advice, you ...

Prototype and script.aculo.us: You Never Knew JavaScript Could Do This! (Pragmatic Programmers)

Christophe Porteneuve

Pragmatic Bookshelf, 2007

Pragmatic Prototype Indeed
Reading this little piece of work is a great way to very quickly learn the nuts and bolts of Prototype and Scriptaculous. This book is long on code and short on deep explanation and banter (for better or worse; hence "pragmatic programmer"). My background: I'm not ...

Release It!: Design and Deploy Production-Ready Software (Pragmatic Programmers) (Pragmatic Programmers)

Michael Nygard

Pragmatic Bookshelf, 2007

Absolute *Must Have*
There are dozens of technical books on my bookshelf, most of them quite good... but none as relevant and valuable an addition as Release It! If you are a professional involved in the development, deployment, and production support of modern information systems it is in ...

Advanced Rails Recipes

Mike Clark

Pragmatic Bookshelf, 2008

Get it, it will pay for itself immediately.
I went through this book cover-to-cover every few pages saying, 'Wow, I could have used/need that now!' If you're a RoR developer, you really should have this book on your shelf. I marked maybe 75% of the recipes as something I could use--worth it's weight in gold!

Manage It!: Your Guide to Modern, Pragmatic Project Management

Johanna Rothman

Pragmatic Bookshelf, 2007

The best project management book EVER!
Manage It! Your Guide to Modern, Pragmatic Project Management by Johanna Rothman is the best project management reference I've ever read, and I've seen my share of project management tomes. Here's what I like best about the book: it's not theological. By this I mean ...

Behind Closed Doors: Secrets of Great Management (Pragmatic Programmers)

Johanna Rothman, Esther Derby

Pragmatic Bookshelf, 2005

Practical Indeed!
I am very skeptical of most business improvement books and one size fits all methodologies, but I can tell you that this book absolutely shines as a glint of hope in the sea of business improvement noise. As opposed to trying to force a given technique that will apply ...

Programming Erlang: Software for a Concurrent World

Joe Armstrong

Pragmatic Bookshelf, 2007

Very easy to digest
I made an attempt at working through this book 6 months ago and didn't feel quite comfortable so I dropped it and instead pursued Programming in Haskell. Yesterday I decided to get back into Erlang and found it a complete breeze, powering through the entire book in a ...

Pragmatic Version Control: Using Subversion (The Pragmatic Starter Kit Series)(2nd Edition)

Mike Mason

Pragmatic Bookshelf, 2006

Fantastic
This book had everything a non-expert would need to understand the basics of the version control system with Subversion. The tone is very readable. And the use of graphics was good but could be better Overall, I recommend this book to anyone who is trying to ...

Learn to Program (Pragmatic Programmers)

Chris Pine

Pragmatic Bookshelf, 2006

I never thought I could program...Until NOW!
I absolutely love this book! I have tried time and time again to get different books and take different classes to learn how to program. Everything from Unix courses to Java, C++, Scripting and many more that were just plain over my head! There are too many ...

Practices of an Agile Developer: Working in the Real World (Pragmatic Programmers)

Venkat Subramaniam, Andy Hunt

Pragmatic Bookshelf, 2006

Beyond good and evil
The book makes one mistake on its own cover. The apparently "bad" angel is sitting on the person's right shoulder, while the "good" angel, on his left. If this book wants to be a hundred percent correct, I suggest for the locations of the two angels to be swapped. ...

Deploying Rails Applications: A Step-by-Step Guide (Facets of Ruby)

Ezra Zygmuntowicz, Bruce Tate, ...

Pragmatic Bookshelf, 2008

authoritative guide to rails basic tools
This is a superb book, the best compact writeups i've seen on setting up Apache load balancing and proxies, nginx, mongrel, SVN server and repos, DNS, MySql caching, capistrano, rake, profiling apps (and there's a lot of blogs, books on these subjects. Entire mailing ...

Groovy Recipes: Greasing the Wheels of Java (Pragmatic Programmers)

Scott Davis

Pragmatic Bookshelf, 2008

Great book for getting into Groovy
Groovy Recipes is an excellent introductory book into Groovy programming. The first few chapters give clear instructions for learning how to use Groovy. The remaining chapters give clear instructions for using some of Groovy's cool features: using Groovy with Java, ...