Andrew Hunt

El programador pragmático es uno de esos raros casos de libros técnicos que se leen, se releen y se vuelven a leer durante años. Tanto si es nuevo en el campo como si es un profesional experimentado, acabara encontrando ideas nuevas cada vez.Dave Thomas y Andy Hunt escribieron la primera edicion de este libro tan influyente en 1999 para ayudar a sus clientes a crear software mejor y a redescubrir el placer de escribir codigo. Estas lecciones han ayudado a una generacion de programadores a examinar la propia esencia del desarrollo de software, independientemente de cualquier lenguaje, framework o metodologia en particular, y la filosofia pragmatica ha sido el germen de cientos de libros, screencasts y audiolibros, ademas de miles de carreras e historias de exito.Ahora, mas de veinte años despues, esta nueva edicion reexamina lo que significa ser un programador moderno. Los temas abarcan desde la responsabilidad personal y el desarrollo profesional hasta tecnicas de arquitectura para mantener su codigo flexible y facil de adaptar y reutilizar. Escrito como una serie de secciones independientes y repleto de anecdotas clasicas y nuevas, ejemplos razonados y analogias interesantes, este libro ilustra los mejores enfoques y los mayores obstaculos de muchos aspectos diferentes del desarrollo de software. No importa si es un novato, un programador con experiencia o un director responsable de proyectos de software, utilice estas lecciones en su dia a dia y pronto observara mejorias en su productividad personal, exactitud y satisfaccion laboral. Aprendera las habilidades y desarrollara los habitos y actitudes que forman los cimientos del exito a largo plazo en su carrera.

Corine has just finished working on her latest movie, and is feeling the effects of burnout. Noting her exhaustion, her co-star recommends a retreat in Australia, set in a forest and far away from any contact with any other human beings. She escapes to this retreat and begins to marvel at the odd beauty of the dry continent, with many different colours, smells and sounds, all of which are alien to her. Her chaperone, a simple person whom she simply names The Driver, remains nearby to service any needs that she requires, assuring her that he will grant her utmost privacy.Now disconnected from the outside world, she begins to explore the forest, discovering little details among the trees that would suggest that she isnt completely alone in the forest. A cryptic message carved on some trees, and some odd formations in the soil pique Corines interest, and only make her want to delve deeper into the trees to uncover the mystery surrounding the nearby mountain that is behind these anomalies.Soon she starts to have her own view of the world challenged as she grasps at the idea that her understanding of the world is wrong, and how powerless she truly is despite all the influence and adoration she enjoys back in civilisation.Mount Forword is the debut story from AP Hunt, exploring the atmosphere of solitude and how an individuals status can cloud their self-perception of their importance in the world. Corine will explore the forest, and will have to confront just how little she means when faced with grand powers beyond her understanding.

It was an exciting time for Lacey. She was starting a new job, which should brought new opportunities and challenges. She was beginning a new life working for the Lottery, and while she was starting on the bottom rung, it was in a company that showed great scope for promotion and development. She is welcomed into the company warmly, fits in well with the culture, and learns many new skills. However, the most exciting parf of the the job, Lacey thought, was the task of calling the Lottery winners to tell them of their good fortune.As Lacey speaks to more and more lottery winners, the more she sees people change when they know they have money. Normally pleasant people become massive jerks within the space of a single phone call.On top of the entitled Lottery winners, Lacey also starts coming to terms with the disrespect shown by the management of the Lottery, and their lack of ownership of any problems that occur to those on the lower floor who actually do all the work.With all the rudeness and lack of respect that Lacey witnesses, she decides to take matters into her own hands, and starts to rebel against the executives who control the Lottery, and those people who win the Lottery. However, what happens is not what she anticipated.The second story from AP Hunt, The Lottery Caller is a hate-letter to the corporate life, highlighting the folly of appeasing management who have no intention of rewarding talent, the perpetuation of an atmosphere of division between the upper and lower floors, and the differences between earning a success and having one delivered without effort.

An unseasonal storm during the Spring time batters the city, breaking communications and power within the metropolis. Nicole Nguyen, the citys Minister for Emergency Services, awakes the following day next to her sparring partner and lover, only to find the streets and businesses abandoned. Together the pair search for food and help amidst a landscape with no modern amenities, nor service from other people. However, something else has come over the city, possessing its inhabitants, making them wander the streets in a daze, groaning with their arms outstretched, trying to grasp anyone they can lay their hands upon."Spring of this Content" puts a slight spin on the well-beaten path of the zombie genre, providing a light commentary on politics, social media, the use of technology and the relationships we forge. Nicole must search for solutions within the mystery that shrouds the city, and perhaps come to terms with her own profession and how she relates to others.

Where have all the adventures gone? There are no more quests. No more dragons to slay. No more world to explore. No more Godly artifacts to uncover. Gareth Emberneed, a trained Fire Mage, is in a world without a need for his skills. All the treasures have been long plundered, all the realm has been explored and all the dragons have been either slain or held in zoos. With the threat of monsters long gone, and with every citizen within the city of Tearlines having all their needs met with their monthly stipends, everyone was free to explore their lives however they pleased. But, how free were they really? In the haze of the citys celebrating revellers and the atmosphere of apathy, Gareth feels a deeper desire to explore, and find something more to this life. He remembers tales of a time long past, where adventurers would venture into the unknown with nothing but the packs on their back and the swords at their side. But those stories are a relic of the past and have now been swirled aside and into the mists of myth.Unable to find purpose, and unwilling to accept a life of directionless existence, Gareth embarks on a hike into the wilderness with his partner, Faren Horatio of Deepthorne, in search of anything that could be considered adventurous. It is after a chance encounter with a Chimera - a beast of legend, and a creature last seen many cycles ago - that the pair finds themselves propelled into a realm of myth, prophecy, beasts and denizens of the underground, pushing them into a secret world they were never meant to see.The Chimeras Omen is the debut novel from Andrew Hunt, and is about finding purpose when the world tells you that there is nothing worth achieving. With this trek, Gareth and Faren will see the reality behind their romantic perceptions of the plane on which they live and the fantastical nature of their ideals. Joined by Marathiel the ranger Forest-kin, Penrose the priestess of Renamusses, and the cursed warrior-turned-farmer going only by the name Wrong, the party will learn of their place in the world, about each other, and discover the thin and brittle veneer of peace that is layered over their lives and the entire world.

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El programador pragmático es uno de esos raros casos de libros técnicos que se leen, se releen y se vuelven a leer durante años. Tanto si es nuevo en el campo como si es un profesional experimentado, acabara encontrando ideas nuevas cada vez.Dave Thomas y Andy Hunt escribieron la primera edicion de este libro tan influyente en 1999 para ayudar a sus clientes a crear software mejor y a redescubrir el placer de escribir codigo. Estas lecciones han ayudado a una generacion de programadores a examinar la propia esencia del desarrollo de software, independientemente de cualquier lenguaje, framework o metodologia en particular, y la filosofia pragmatica ha sido el germen de cientos de libros, screencasts y audiolibros, ademas de miles de carreras e historias de exito.Ahora, mas de veinte años despues, esta nueva edicion reexamina lo que significa ser un programador moderno. Los temas abarcan desde la responsabilidad personal y el desarrollo profesional hasta tecnicas de arquitectura para mantener su codigo flexible y facil de adaptar y reutilizar. Escrito como una serie de secciones independientes y repleto de anecdotas clasicas y nuevas, ejemplos razonados y analogias interesantes, este libro ilustra los mejores enfoques y los mayores obstaculos de muchos aspectos diferentes del desarrollo de software. No importa si es un novato, un programador con experiencia o un director responsable de proyectos de software, utilice estas lecciones en su dia a dia y pronto observara mejorias en su productividad personal, exactitud y satisfaccion laboral. Aprendera las habilidades y desarrollara los habitos y actitudes que forman los cimientos del exito a largo plazo en su carrera.