Dave Thomas (programmer)
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David Thomas.
Dave Thomas is a computer programmer and author/editor. He has written about Ruby.
Dave and partner Andy Hunt wrote The Pragmatic Programmer and run The Pragmatic Bookshelf publishing company.
Dave Thomas lives in Flower Mound, Texas. He moved to the United States from England in 1994.
Dave has also coined the phrase 'Code Kata'.
He studied computer science at Imperial College London.[1]
Works
- The Pragmatic Programmer, Andrew Hunt and David Thomas, 1999, Addison Wesley, ISBN 0-201-61622-X.
- Programming Ruby: A Pragmatic Programmer's Guide, David Thomas and Andrew Hunt, 2000, Addison Wesley, ISBN 0-201-71089-7
- Pragmatic Version Control Using CVS, David Thomas and Andrew Hunt, 2003, The Pragmatic Bookshelf, ISBN 0-9745140-0-4
- Pragmatic Unit Testing in Java with JUnit, Andrew Hunt and David Thomas, 2003, The Pragmatic Bookshelf, ISBN 0-9745140-1-2
- Pragmatic Unit Testing in C# with Nunit, Andrew Hunt and David Thomas, 2004, The Pragmatic Bookshelf, ISBN 0-9745140-2-0
- Programming Ruby (2nd Edition), Dave Thomas, Chad Fowler, and Andrew hunt, 2004, The Pragmatic Bookshelf, ISBN 0-9745140-5-5
- Pragmatic Unit Testing in C# with Nunit, 2nd Edition, Andy Hunt and David Thomas with Matt Hargett, 2007, The Pragmatic Bookshelf, ISBN 978-0-9776166-7-1
- Agile Web Development with Rails, Dave Thomas, David Heinemeier Hansson, Andreas Schwarz, Thomas Fuchs, Leon Breedt, and Mike Clark, 2005, Pragmatic Bookshelf, ISBN 0-9766940-0-X
- Agile Web Development with Rails (2nd edition), Dave Thomas, with David Heinemener Hansson, Mike Clark, Justin Gehtland, James Duncan Davidson, 2006, Pragmatic Bookshelf, ISBN 0-9776166-3-0
References
- ^ "Interview: Author Dave Thomas". rubylearning.com. http://rubylearning.com/blog/2009/05/24/interview-author-dave-thomas/. Retrieved 2009-07-03.
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