Dave Thomas (programmer)

Dave Thomas speaking at the Pasadena Rails Studio

This page is about Dave (David) Thomas, the computer programmer and author/editor, and not about Dave Thomas, founder of IBM OTI Labs. For other people named Dave or David Thomas, see David Thomas.

Dave Thomas is a computer programmer and author/editor. He has written about Ruby.

Dave and partner Andy Hunt wrote the The Pragmatic Programmer and run The Pragmatic Bookshelf publishing company, publishing award-winning and critically acclaimed books for software developers.

Dave Thomas lives in Dallas, Texas. He moved to the United States from England in 1994.

Dave has also coined the phrase 'Code Kata'.

Works

1. The Pragmatic Programmer, Andrew Hunt and David Thomas, 1999, Addison Wesley, ISBN 0-201-61622-X.
2. Programming Ruby: A Pragmatic Programmer's Guide, David Thomas and Andrew Hunt, 2000, Addison Wesley, ISBN 0-201-71089-7
3. Pragmatic Version Control Using CVS, David Thomas and Andrw Hunt, 2003, The Pragmatic Bookshelf, ISBN 0-9745140-0-4
4. Pragmatic Unit Testing in Java with JUnit, Andrew Hunt and David Thomas, 2003, The Pragmatic Bookshelf, ISBN 0-9745140-1-2
5. Pragmatic Unit Testing in C# with Nunit, Andrew Hunt and David Thomas, 2004, The Pragmatic Bookshelf, ISBN 0-9745140-2-0
6. Programming Ruby (2nd Edition), Dave Thomas, Chad Fowler, and Andrew hunt, 2004, The Pragmatic Bookshelf, ISBN 0-9745140-5-5
7. Agile Web Development with Rails, Dave Thomas, David Heinemeier Hansson, Andreas Schwarz, Thomas Fuchs, Leon Breedt, and Mike Clark, 2005, Pragmatic Bookshelf, ISBN 0-9766940-0-X
8. 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

External links

• Amazon.com Biography and Bibliography
• PragmaticProgrammer.com, website for the Pragmatic Programmers
• Dave Thomas's Blog
• CodeKata