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With contributions from some of the most experienced and respected practitioners in the industry--including Michael Feathers, Pete Goodliffe, Diomidis Spinellis, Cay Horstmann, Verity Stob, and many more--this book contains practical knowledge and principles that you can apply to all kinds of projects.

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Kevlin Henney is an independent consultant and trainer. His work focuses on patterns and architecture, programming techniques and languages, and development process and practice. He has been a columnist for various magazines and online publications, including The Register, Better Software, Java Report, CUJ, and C++ Report. Kevlin is co-author of two volumes in the Pattern-Oriented Software Architecture series: A Pattern Language for Distributed Computing and On Patterns and Pattern Languages. He also contributed to 97 Things Every Software Architect Should Know

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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ O'Reilly Media
  • Publication date ‏ : ‎ March 23, 2010
  • Edition ‏ : ‎ 1st
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Print length ‏ : ‎ 255 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0596809484
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0596809485
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 2.31 pounds
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 6 x 0.54 x 9 inches
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    I'm an independent consultant, international speaker, writer and trainer. I live in Bristol and online.

    My software development interests are in patterns, programming, practice and process. As well as contributing to a number of projects, I've been involved in (far too) many committees (for conferences, publications and standards, but as yet I've not been on a committee for committees).

    My fiction writing tends to the short side — and occasionally to the dark side — spanning a number of genres.

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    Seb wrote his first commercial software in the early eighties on an Apple II. He went on to graduate from the University of Edinburgh with a 1st Class Joint Honours in Computer Science and Electronics in 1987. Since then he has had a varied career working with companies, both large and small, in roles that cover the complete technical spectrum (www.linkedin.com/in/sebrose).

    Over the past 6 years, Seb has focused on helping teams adopt and refine their agile practices. He honed his craft at IBM Rational and Amazon, where he became familiar with many of the common agile dysfunctions and realised that what most teams lack is fluency in core technical practices. Without these underpinnings, poor communication becomes the biggest barrier to success, whether it is between the business and the development team or within the development team itself.

    Seb wrote internal training courses for IBM's Quality Software Engineering department (QSE) and went on to develop his own courses that he runs for clients throughout Europe (claysnow.co.uk/training). He speaks regularly at international conferences, specialising in topics such as Unit Testing, Test Driven Development (TDD), Behaviour Driven Development (BDD) and Acceptance Test Driven Development (ATDD). He is a contributing author to O'Reilly's "97 Things Every Programmer Should Know", as well as being a popular blogger and a regular contributor to technical journals.

    For the past year Seb has been a core member of the open source Cucumber project and is lead author of "The Cucumber for Java Book" for the Pragmatic Programmers. He works closely with other thought leaders in the development community and is a contributor and trainer with Kickstart Academy (kickstartacademy.io)

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Customers appreciate the book's content, describing it as a collection of 97 nuggets of hard-won wisdom from experienced programmers. They find the book worth having, with one customer noting it's particularly valuable even for senior developers.
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  • Giovanni Dienstmann
    5.0 out of 5 stars A few precious gems
    Reviewed in the United States on April 11, 2013
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    This book presents a collection of professional wisdom from several programs, UX designers, project managers, test engineers, etc. You will read them speak about dealing with bugs, coding guidelines, build scripts, design principles, performance optimization, professionalism, dealing with schedules and estimates, reuse, etc.
    While some of the things here were a bit obvious, reading this book was a great learning, and I would honestly suggest it for any developer, tester, or project manager. Even product developers and producers could benefit greatly from its reading.
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  • Noah Moerbeek
    4.0 out of 5 stars Some Beneficial Advice and Maxims
    Reviewed in the United States on October 9, 2013
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    97 things every programmer should know is a light easy read that is broad enough to appeal to anyone who works in code or on software projects in general.

    I found essays like "How to Implement Doing it Right vs Getting it Done" to be very helpful and wise. That essay included pratical advice that we were able to apply by changing our design for our in house bug tracking software to include a technical debt tracker. "Coding with Reason" included some decent maxims that I hope my programmers implement, and I will be checking for in future code reviews. It is for these excellent essays among others that the book is worth reading.

    As a software development manager who also gets involved in the business side of things I was amused at how occasionally at the contradiction that exist between the business world and the software development world. In the essay "The Professional Programmer" that emphasized among other things that programmers should not tolerate bug lists and take responsibility for training themselves (I agree). However, I know that often times programmers have little control over their time and I know that our fallen nature inclines people who self study (if they do it all) often times to study what they like rather than what is useful to the company. In my knowledge of Business management the opposite advice is given, that in order to keep a motivated workforce the employer needs to provide training and/or training opportunities. Essays pushing pair programming made a good argument for it, but excluded what practical ideas can be implemented if such a thing is not possible.

    Sometimes I did not always agree with all the essays nor did I think that certain maxims should be elevated to the level of dogmas. Where the book suffered was that some of the essays selected seemed to reiterate points that where already made in other essays.

    I would recommend this book and I will even be using it for our in house book club.
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  • Davidgk
    5.0 out of 5 stars Looking for advices
    Reviewed in the United States on September 6, 2011
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    If you would have the oportunity to have a meet with a 100 experts guys in technology, to give to you some advices about how to be a better dev, would you assist ? ok. Here is the answer about this book, I think the best is to have clear targets about what improve to be better profesional , and then investigate about that. When you have several years developing ( better if you have only 2 or three years doing that ) you will need someone to give you the right patk, not only for you, just for leading other developers. It's a must to know which should be the better choices about how to do the things. great book, not only the code's book are needed.
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  • Paul Repin
    5.0 out of 5 stars Good
    Reviewed in the United States on January 24, 2013
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    I recommend this book to any person related to software development — either for engineers or managers. The book contains a philosophy of software development as opposite to more "guideline" like style of regular software books.
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  • Sumit Pal
    3.0 out of 5 stars 1-2 pages is too short to describe the full concept
    Reviewed in the United States on April 11, 2010
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    I thought this would be a good informative book - but a few things put me off.

    1st - I think the number 97 may be too much for everyone to pitch in and do a good job of it and also keep the book thin and also get the point across.

    2nd - The ideas talked about in some of the items seem very good - but as the idea got into my head slightly - I saw that the article ended.

    Some of the other items I think 50% of them - seemed not really worth writing about probably - they should be known to any developer who had done good enough Software Developer for 10 years or so.
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  • Neil F. Sambol
    5.0 out of 5 stars Things every developer should know...and so few do...
    Reviewed in the United States on March 18, 2016
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    Every newbie to development should read this and seasoned professionals should read it on occasion as a refresher. It distills what I have learned after 20 years of professional experience into a small, easily digestible package. I wish that I had it when I was just starting out!
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  • gaosmer
    2.0 out of 5 stars Mainframe need not apply
    Reviewed in the United States on March 1, 2010
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    If you live in a java, C, XML world; there is very little for you here. If you have been programming less than 5 years, there is a wee bit of wisdom to be found. It was a quick read which made a quick but merciful end to my week.
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  • BeatlesEnthusiast126
    5.0 out of 5 stars This book is very helpful
    Reviewed in Australia on January 18, 2025
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    The book arrived in time, which is always good. I haven’t finished reading it but I have found the advice useful so far.
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  • Mason
    5.0 out of 5 stars Title says it all
    Reviewed in Canada on May 11, 2015
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    Excellent book with good points for the novice and the expert. Its simple to focus on but has some powerful parts to it.
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  • Steve Wood
    5.0 out of 5 stars One of my favourite books, but...
    Reviewed in the United Kingdom on September 4, 2013
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    This book is full of some very interesting, eye opening and self validating tips. And yes I agree that every programmer should know most of these things.

    The book isn't specific to any programming language and yes is can be considered opinion, but I'm sure that most developers will be nodding their heads in agreement as they read each "Thing". The good news is there is a lot more "Things" to be found on O'Reilly web site that is added to from time to time.

    Would recommend this to any developer and suggest you leave it on your desk for others to read too.
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  • Benjamin A.
    5.0 out of 5 stars Recommended
    Reviewed in France on October 13, 2019
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    Good book
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  • Ludovico
    5.0 out of 5 stars Semplice e coinciso
    Reviewed in Italy on November 11, 2021
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    Lettura molto veloce. Ogni capitolo è un consiglio compresso in due pagine, quindi la lettura è molto scorrevole.
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