Dave Thomas

The Pragmatic Programmer
http://www.pragmaticprogrammer.com/

Keynote: Fear of Flying

Terrorists multiplying fear; they manipulate our reality to make the everyday suddenly seem frightening. And we react, or overreact, but trying to re-establish a feeling of safety. Terrorism works because we let ourselves become terrorized.

What has this to do with software development? Everything, as it turns out.

Biography

Dave Thomas is a programmer. He writes some books, and publishes others.

Books Written

• The Pragmatic Programmer, Andrew Hunt and David Thomas, 1999, Addison Wesley, ISBN 020161622X.
  
  
• Programming Ruby: A Pragmatic Programmer's Guide, David Thomas and Andrew Hunt, 2000, Addison Wesley, ISBN 0201710897
  
  
• Pragmatic Version Control Using CVS, David Thomas and Andrw Hunt, 2003, The Pragmatic Bookshelf, ISBN 0974514004
  
  
• Pragmatic Unit Testing in Java with JUnit, Andrew Hunt and David Thomas, 2003, The Pragmatic Bookshelf, ISBN 0974514012
  
  
• Pragmatic Unit Testing in C# with Nunit, Andrew Hunt and David Thomas, 2004, The Pragmatic Bookshelf, ISBN 0974514020
  
  
• Programming Ruby (2nd Edition), Dave Thomas, Chad Fowler, and Andrew hunt, 2004, The Pragmatic Bookshelf, ISBN 0974514055
  
  
• Agile Web Development with Rails, Dave Thomas, David Heinemeier Hansson, Andreas Schwarz, Thomas Fuchs, Leon Breedt, and Mike Clark, 2005, Pragmatic Bookshelf, ISBN 097669400X
  
  
• Agile Web Development with Rails (2nd edition), Dave Thomas, with David Heinemener Hansson, Mike Clark, Justin Gehtland, James Duncan Davidson, 2006, Pragmatic Bookshelf, ISBN 0-9776166-3-0