Chad Fowler

Programmers can learn how to become entrepreneurs, driving their career in the direction of their choosing. This guide illustrates how those in the IT field can set the direction of their careers, leading to a more fulfilling and remarkable professional life.

Creating a Remarkable Career in Software Development

The Passionate Programmer

Mike Clark

Rails Community

From the author of the indispensable "Rails Recipes," and with the help of a new master Rails chef in the kitchen, here are 72 new ways to kick one's Ruby on Rails apps up a notch--a collection of practical recipes for dressing up one's Wzeb application with little fuss.

Advanced Rails Recipes

52 Ways to Save Your Job (Pragmatic Programmers)

My Job Went to India

Rails recipes

The American IT job market is slowly coming apart at the seams, and it's all our fault. Most of us have been stumbling around letting our careers take us where they may, and now we're surprised when our companies are shipping our jobs overseas for a fraction of the price. It's time to take control of our careers, and in the process, learn to stay both relevant and employed. This book will show you how to take action to avoid becoming yet another casualty of offshoring.

And All I Got was this Lousy Book

Provides information on creating Web-based applications using Ruby.

Rails Recipes

Dieses Buch ist ein inspirierender Wegweiser für Programmierer und Softwareentwickler. Chad Fowler zeigt Ihnen, wie Sie sich nachhaltig persönlich weiterentwickeln können, um Ihre eigene berufliche Laufbahn erfolgreich zu gestalten und Schritt für Schritt Ihre eigenen Ziele zu verfolgen und zu realisieren.

wie Programmierer ihre berufliche Laufbahn erfolgreich gestalten

Der leidenschaftliche Programmierer

Para ter sucesso no mercado de TI atual, é preciso ver sua carreira como se fosse um negócio. Nesse livro você vai aprender a empreender com a sua carreira e levá-la para o caminho que você escolheu. O do sucesso. Chad Fowler, famoso desenvolvedor de software e autor de diversos livros, ensina a construir sua carreira na área de desenvolvimento, passo a passo, seguindo o mesmo caminho de que se você estivesse criando e vendendo um produto. Afinal de contas, suas habilidades são um produto.

Construindo uma carreira notável em desenvolvimento de software

O Programador Apaixonado

Rails 3 Edition

本書は、等身大のプログラマの一人がキャリア開発の重要性を説き、そのための心構えなどを示したもの。「プログラマはビジネス視点を持って意識的なキャリア開発をすべき」という視点から、その実践方法を著者独特の生き生きとした共感できる語り口で伝える。原書は"The Passionate Programmer: Creating a Remarkable Career in Software Development"(The Pragmatic Programmers,2009)

情熱プログラマー ソフトウェア開発者の幸せな生き方

Success in today's IT environment requires you to view your career as a business endeavor. In this book, you'll learn how to become an entrepreneur, driving your career in the direction of your choosing. You'll learn how to build your software development career step by step, following the same path that you would follow if you were building, marketing, and selling a product. After all, your skills themselves are a product. The choices you make about which technologies to focus on and which business domains to master have at least as much impact on your success as your technical knowledge itself--don't let those choices be accidental. We'll walk through all aspects of the decision-making process, so you can ensure that you're investing your time and energy in the right areas. You'll develop a structured plan for keeping your mind engaged and your skills fresh. You'll learn how to assess your skills in terms of where they fit on the value chain, driving you away from commodity skills and toward those that are in high demand. Through a mix of high-level, thought-provoking essays and tactical "Act on It" sections, you will come away with concrete plans you can put into action immediately. You'll also get a chance to read the perspectives of several highly successful members of our industry from a variety of career paths. As with any product or service, if nobody knows what you're selling, nobody will buy. We'll walk through the often-neglected world of marketing, and you'll create a plan to market yourself both inside your company and to the industry in general. Above all, you'll see how you can set the direction of your career, leading to a more fulfilling and remarkable professional life.

Andrew Hunt

David Thomas

Summary: Ruby 1.9 was a major release of the language: it introduced multinationalization, new block syntax and scoping rules, a new, faster, virtual machine, and hundreds of new methods in dozens of new classes and modules. Ruby 2.0 is less radical--it has keyword arguments, a new regexp engine, and some library changes. This book describes it all. The first quarter of the book is a tutorial introduction that gets you up to speed with the Ruby language and the most important classes and libraries. Download and play with the hundreds of code samples as your experiment with the language. The second section looks at real-world Ruby, covering the Ruby environment, how to package, document, and distribute code, and how to work with encodings. The third part of the book is more advanced. In it, you'll find a full description of the language, an explanation of duck typing, and a detailed description of the Ruby object model and metaprogramming. The book ends with a reference section: comprehensive and detailed documentation of Ruby's libraries. You'll find descriptions and examples of more than 1,300 methods in 58 built-in classes and modules, along with brief descriptions of 97 standard libraries. Ruby makes your programming more productive; it makes coding fun again. And this book will get you up to speed with the very latest Ruby, quickly and enjoyably.

Chad Fowler

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