books by Pragmatic Bookshelf     books:     Pragmatic Bookshelf      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 ...             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 52 Ways to be the "Best of the Best" This book was a much needed wakeup call with respect to the realities of software engineering and the international market for those skills. We all understand that international competition is driving businesses to reduce costs by outsourcing software engineering ...             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!             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.             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 ...             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 ...             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 ...             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 ...             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. ...             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 ...             Pragmatic Unit Testing in C# with NUnit, 2nd Edition Andy Hunt, Dave Thomas, ... Pragmatic Bookshelf, 2007 Great introduction to writing unit test in C# This is a great introduction to writing unit tests in C# with NUnit. The authors do a good job of explaining why unit tests should be created, how having unit tests are better than not having unit tests, and what exactly should be coded for in a unit test. The book ...             The Definitive ANTLR Reference: Building Domain-Specific Languages (Pragmatic Programmers) Terence Parr Pragmatic Bookshelf, 2007 A Perfectly Pragmatic Guide! If you have any interest in compiler design, building translators, building intelligent editors, code generation, understanding what goes into building your own computer language, or just how to use ANTLR v3 then you may want to get a copy of this book. This book is ...             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, ...          products you might be interested in search for books development, domain-specific, production-ready, programmers, programming, retrospectives      geepe.com    web we recommend Great Book - But Wait to Buy randomly chosen electronics: Apple iPod touch 16 GB