Content: the philosophy of pragmatic development - basic concepts - tools - paranoia - bend or break - while you code - before the project - the pragmatic projects
The great strength of Andy Hunt and Dave Thomas is their ability to communicate essential principles without jabber, which makes it enjoyable book to read. The councils reveal such pertinent example those orthoginalité (independence between modules), DRY (do not repeat yourself) or broken window (first fix small bugs). The book contains many practical tips on Development: version control, debugging, exception handling, etc.
This book will benefit both beginners as more experienced developers. He has rightly established itself as a classic of computer literature.
