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The Pragmatic ProgrammersWe create timely, practical books and learning resources on classic and cutting-edge topics to help you practice your craft and accelerate your career.
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We create timely, practical books and learning resources on classic and cutting-edge topics to help you practice your craft and accelerate your career. In our Medium publication, you'll find short articles from our book authors and editors.
Editors
The Pragmatic Programmers
We create timely, practical books and learning resources on classic and cutting-edge topics to help you practice your craft and accelerate your career.
Jeff Langr / Langr Software Solutions
40+ years developing. Wrote Modern C++ Programming w/ TDD; Agile Java; Agile in a Flash; Prag Unit Testing in Java; some of Clean Code.
PragPub
The Pragmatic Programmers bring you archives from PragPub, a magazine on web and mobile development (by editor Michael Swaine, of Dr. Dobb’s Journal fame).
Writers
Johanna Rothman
I help managers and leaders do reasonable things that work. Author of 14 books and counting…
Ed Burnette
Technology innovator, open source advocate, AI enthusiast, and veteran software developer.
Noel Rappin
Noel Rappin is a Senior Staff Engineer at Chime. He is the co-author of "Programming Ruby 3.2", the "Pickaxe Book". Find him at noelrappin.com
Dmitry Zinoviev
Dmitry is a prof of Computer Science at Suffolk U. He is loves C and Python programming, complex networks, computational soc science, and digital humanities.
Joe Morgan
I like to break things and put them back together. Author of Simplifying Javascript. Writing featured in Slate, Digital Ocean and FreeCodeCamp.
Ricardo Gerardi
Geek, father, consultant, writer. Author of Powerful Command-Line Applications in Go. I also write for many online technical publications. Go, Linux, k8s, Vim.
Tammy Coron
Tammy Coron is an independent creative professional and the host of Roundabout: Creative Chaos.
Sophie DeBenedetto
Sophie is a Senior Software Engineer at GitHub and co-author of Programming Phoenix LiveView
Bruce Tate
Bruce Tate is the founder of Groxio, a training and education company for programmers. He’s the author of more than a dozen books and an avid outdoor enthusiast
Staffan Nöteberg
🌱 Twenty Years of Agile Coaching and Leadership • Monotasking and Pomodoro books (700.000 copies sold)
Kenneth Kousen
Author of the books Mockito Made Clear, Help Your Boss Help You, Kotlin Cookbook, Modern Java Recipes, Gradle Recipes for Android, and Making Java Groovy
Mark Kilby
20+y remote work practitioner, organizational coach, and co-author of the book, From Chaos to Successful Distributed Agile Teams: Collaborate to Deliver.
Michael Swaine
Editor-in-chief of the legendary Dr. Dobb’s Journal, co-author of seminal computer history Fire in the Valley, editor at Pragmatic Bookshelf.
Mike Amundsen
Working to improve the quality and usability of information on the Web with APIs, Microservices, and Digital Transformation
Travis Jeffery
Working on Kafka/Confluent. Made software at Basecamp, Segment. Writing open-source software https://github.com/travisjeffery.
Dave Thomas
Programmer. Writer (Pragmatic Programmer, Programming Ruby, Agile Web Development w/ Rails, Programming Elixir). Manifesto for Agile S/W Development. Speaker
PragPub
The Pragmatic Programmers bring you archives from PragPub, a magazine on web and mobile development (by editor Michael Swaine, of Dr. Dobb’s Journal fame).
Andy Hunt
Award-winning and best-selling Author, Speaker, Musician, and Woodworker. Home page at toolshed.com
Brian P. Hogan
Web developer, author, PragProg editor, teacher, student, musician. I create things on the Internet and craft words at @digitalocean. My opinions are my own.
Karl Stolley
Author of Programming WebRTC, out in beta at Pragmatic Programmers. Chicagoan. Developer & writer.
Faraz Kelhini
Faraz is a professional JavaScript developer who is passionate about promoting patterns and ideas that make web development more productive. Website: eloux.com
Uberto Barbini
JVM and Kotlin independent consultant. Passionate about Code Quality and Functional Programming. Author, public speaker and OpenSource contributor.
Louise Corrigan
Senior Content Acquisitions Editor at O’Reilly Media working in the software architecture and software development space
Ben Cotton
Ben is the Fedora Program Manager and author of Program Management for Open Source Projects.
Jeff Langr / Langr Software Solutions
40+ years developing. Wrote Modern C++ Programming w/ TDD; Agile Java; Agile in a Flash; Prag Unit Testing in Java; some of Clean Code.
Frazer Rice
Pendletonsquaretrust.com; http://bit.ly/wealthactually; http://frazerrice.com/category/blog/; http://pragprog.com;
Brian Okken
Host of @TestAndCode (@testpodcast) and @PythonBytes. Author of “Python Testing with pytest”. Lean TDD advocate, Agile heckler. Python, C++.
Steve Motty (nOw Innovation Inc.)
30-years specializing in geospatial & remote-sensing logic-ware for many markets: subsea exploration;aviation training;incident recorders;&ocean-going robotics.
Andy Lester
I write about programming, job hunting, open source, resumes, etc. I wrote ack. Email me at andy-at-petdance.com.
Tom Mahon, author of Charged Bodies
I started writing about technology in 1974, and began a half-century career as publicist, historian, essayist, novelist and speaker, in Silicon Valley.
