The Pragmatic Programmer: From Journeyman to Master (ISBN 0-201-61622-X) is a book about software engineering by Andrew Hunt and David Thomas, published in October, 1999.
Characteristics of a Pragmatic Programmer: ("Preface", pp. xviii–xix)
The authors also went on to write about the Ruby programming language in the book Programming Ruby and Agile Web Development with Rails, a book on Ruby on Rails which also touches on Ajax and the Ruby programming language.
The book is the first in the a series of books under the The Pragmatic Bookshelf label and copyright The Pragmatic Programmers, LLC.
Books in the series (partial list):