Table of Contents
- 1. A Pragmatic Philosophy.
- The Cat Ate My Source Code
- Software Entropy
- Stone Soup and Boiled Frogs
- Good-Enough Software
- Your Knowledge Portfolio
- Communicate
- 2. A Pragmatic Approach
- The Evils of Duplication
- Orthogonality
- Reversibility
- Tracer Bullets
- Prototypes and Post-it Notes
- Domain Languages
- Estimating
- 3. The Basic Tools
- The Power of Plain Text
- Shell Games
- Power Editing
- Source Code Control
- Debugging
- Text Manipulation
- Code Generators
- 4. Pragmatic Paranoia
- Design by Contract
- Dead Programs Tell No Lies
- Assertive Programming
- When to Use Exceptions
- How to Balance Resources
- 5. Bend, or Break
- Decoupling and the Law of Demeter
- Metaprogramming
- Temporal Coupling
- It's Just a View
- Blackboards
- 6. While You Are Coding
- Programming by Coincidence
- Algorithm Speed
- Refactoring
- Code That's Easy to Test
- Evil Wizards
- 7. Before the Project
- The Requirements Pit
- Solving Impossible Puzzles
- Not Until You're Ready.
- The Specification Trap
- Circles and Arrows
- 8. Pragmatic Projects
- Pragmatic Teams
- Ubiquitous Automation
- Ruthless Testing
- It's All Writing
- Great Expectations
- Appendices
About the Author
Andy Hunt is an avid woodworker and musician, but, curiously, he is
more in demand as a consultant. He has worked in
telecommunications, banking, financial services, and utilities, as
well as in more exotic fields, such as medical imaging, graphic
arts, and Internet services. Andy specializes in blending
tried-and-true techniques with leading-edge technologies, creating
novel--but practical--solutions. Andy owns his own consulting
business in Raleigh, North Carolina.
Dave Thomas likes to fly single-engine airplanes and pays for his
habit by finding elegant solutions to difficult problems,
consulting in areas as diverse as aerospace, banking, financial
services, telecommunications, travel and transport, and the
Internet. Before moving to the United States in 1994, Dave founded
an ISO9001-certified English software company that delivered
sophisticated, custom software projects throughout the world. Dave
is now an independent consultant based in Dallas, Texas.
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