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David Bryant Copeland

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David Copeland is a programmer and author. He wrote "The Senior Software Engineer" and "Build Awesome Command-Line Applications in Ruby", and has over 16 years of professional development experience. He's managed high-performance, high-traffic systems at LivingSocial, helped build the engineering team at Opower, and worked consulting gigs both large and small. Currently, he's a lead engineer at fashion start-up Stitch Fix, building a platform that will change the retail shopping experience.
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The Death of the Software Craftsman

The death of a software craftsman
Well, it happens a lot ��round here
You think quality is a common goal
That goes to show how little you know

Developers work hard over the years to cultivate tools and techniques to improve the quality of the construction of their software. These tools and techniques are slowly becoming even more useless than they may already be. We must adapt by either going all-

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	Agile Web Development with Rails 5.1 by Dave Thomas (Goodreads Author), Sam Ruby, David Bryant Copeland (Goodreads Author) 3.86 avg rating — 2,232 ratings — published 2005 — 41 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Senior Software Engineer 3.78 avg rating — 185 ratings — published 2013 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Build Awesome Command-Line Applications in Ruby: Control Your SPuter, Simplify Your Life 3.89 avg rating — 109 ratings — published 2012 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Sustainable Web Development with Ruby on Rails: Practical Tips for Building Web Applications that Last 4.22 avg rating — 55 ratings — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	SOLID is not Solid: Five Object-Oriented Principles To Create a Codebase Everyone Will Hate 3.80 avg rating — 56 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Rails Angular Postgres Bootstrap 3.59 avg rating — 37 ratings — published 2015 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Ruby on Rails Background Jobs with Sidekiq 3.80 avg rating — 10 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“The more predictable you are, the better you will be at estimating how long something will take and the more promises you can make about your work.”
― David B. Copeland, The Senior Software Engineer

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