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Confessions of an Unintentional CTO: Lessons in Growing a Web App
A book of generalised, language-agnostic advice pertinent to hacker-y web developers working on live web applications which have real-life users and all too real problems.
The author writes:
"I would consider this an 'advanced' book on web development, albeit not in the (unfortunate) usual sense of touring the latest hipster language's arcana or providing a cookbook of "solutions" no reasonable person would ever need. Confessions of an Unintentional CTO focuses on the issues I believe are most pertinent to the new CTO, such as ensuring data integrity, easing system maintenance, knowing what not to test, developing professional-grade accounting features for taxation reporting, sharpening an application’s ability to inform one of errors, and integrating SEO/analytics/online marketing right into the very foundations of a web application. This book is ideal for engineers in small companies who are not insulated by their team’s sheer size from the sundry practical issues and tradeoffs implicit in running a software business."
The author writes:
"I would consider this an 'advanced' book on web development, albeit not in the (unfortunate) usual sense of touring the latest hipster language's arcana or providing a cookbook of "solutions" no reasonable person would ever need. Confessions of an Unintentional CTO focuses on the issues I believe are most pertinent to the new CTO, such as ensuring data integrity, easing system maintenance, knowing what not to test, developing professional-grade accounting features for taxation reporting, sharpening an application’s ability to inform one of errors, and integrating SEO/analytics/online marketing right into the very foundations of a web application. This book is ideal for engineers in small companies who are not insulated by their team’s sheer size from the sundry practical issues and tradeoffs implicit in running a software business."
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288 pages, Kindle Edition
Published June 14, 2017
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August 7, 2018
It's ok, but ultimately just blog posts stringed together. Very abstract, Ruby focused (lightly).
October 21, 2019
The book was free from the author's website. It was OK, I would say the focus is on tech rather than management or tips on becoming a technical leader.
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