Passionate Programmer Creating a Remarkable Career in Software Development

Name: Passionate Programmer Creating a Remarkable Career in Software Development
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ISBN: 9781934356340

ISBN-10: 1934356344

ISBN-13: 9781934356340

Edition: 2009

Authors: Chad Fowler, David Heinemeier Hansson

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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…

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List price: $23.95
Copyright year: 2009
Publisher: Pragmatic Programmers, LLC, The
Publication date: 6/23/2009
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 200
Size: 5.98" wide x 9.02" long x 0.59" tall
Weight: 0.836
Language: English

Chad Fowler is co-director of Ruby Central, Inc., and remains an active, driving force in the Ruby community.



Foreword


Acknowledgments


Introduction



Choosing Your Market



Lead or Bleed?



Supply and Demand



Coding Don't Cut It Anymore



Be the Worst



Invest in Your Intelligence



Don't Listen to Your Parents



Be a Generalist



Be a Specialist



Don't Put All Your Eggs in Someone Else's Basket



Love It or Leave It



Investing in Your Product



Learn to Fish



Learn How Businesses Really Work



Find a Mentor



Be a Mentor



Practice, Practice, Practice



The Way That You Do It



On the Shoulders of Giants



Automate Yourself into a Job



Executing



Right Now



Mind Reader



Daily Hit



Remember Who You Work For



Be Where You're At



How Good a Job Can I Do Today?



How Much Are You Worth?



A Pebble in a Bucket of Water



Learn to Love Maintenance



Eight-Hour Burn



Learn How to Fail



Say "No"



Don't Panic



Say It, Do It, Show It



Marketing... Not Just for Suits



Perceptions, Perschmeptions



Adventure Tour Guide



Me Rite Reel Nice



Being Present



Suit Speak



Change the World



Let Your Voice Be Heard



Build Your Brand



Release Your Code



Remarkability



Making the Hang



Maintaining Your Edge



Already Obsolete



You've Already Lost Your Job



Path with No Destination



Make Yourself a Map



Watch the Market



That Fat Man in the Mirror



The South Indian Monkey Trap



Avoid Waterfall Career Planning



Better Than Yesterday



Go Independent


Have Fun


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