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Ep. 51 - The Pragmatic Programmer - Part II (Dave Thomas)

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4.7618 Ratings

🗓️ 31 August 2015

⏱️ 84 minutes

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Summary

In part two of our interview with Dave Thomas, we dive into some of his other contributions to the community, including coining the phrase “DRY” (Don’t Repeat Yourself), popularizing the code kata, and signing the Manifesto for Agile Software Development.

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0:55.4

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1:00.0

Welcome to the Codewood-Nobie podcast, where we talk to people on their coding journey in the hopes of helping you on yours.

1:13.8

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1:20.0

Today, we are continuing our conversation with programmer Dave Thomas.

1:24.2

Last week on episode 50, we talked about his own coding journey and his work as founder

1:28.7

and publisher of the pragmatic bookshelf. And today we are getting back into the code side of

1:33.5

things. So let's get to it. So there are two concepts that I bet most of our listeners have

1:41.2

heard of that I believe you came up with. So the concept of a code

1:45.1

cata and the concept of don't repeat yourself. So let's talk about code cata's first. Where did that

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