The Pragmatic Bookshelf 2.0
The Present
Dave Thomas, co-founder of The Pragmatic Bookshelf, is back at the helm, and he’s got big plans. Some wish list items include making the website more user-friendly, updating our toolchain, and delivering content in new and innovative ways.
He’s engaging with authors, readers, and the PragProg team to bring you The Pragmatic Bookshelf version 2.0.
But before we talk about the future, here is a bit of the history of Dave Thomas and The Pragmatic Bookshelf — since understanding the past can help guide decisions about the future.
The Past
Dave Thomas was born in Cheshire, England, and moved about between Canada, the US, and England during his youth. He fell in love with computers at a young age and studied computer science at Imperial College London. In 1994, Dave and his family settled in Texas and have been there ever since.
Around that time, Dave met Andy Hunt and they began working together. They wrote two books for Addison Wesley, The Pragmatic Programmer (1999) and Programming Ruby (2000) and did all their own production work using tooling that Dave developed.
In 2001, Dave and Andy were part of a group of seventeen people who met and discussed the need for a new, lighter-weight approach to software development. What emerged was The Agile Manifesto. Those twelve principals went on to influence their future work and the work of developers around the globe.
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