The Pragmatic Programmers are as good as it gets! They are smart; they listen; and they deliver. Plus, they are very creative and fun to work with. In short, they get results.
-- Scott Streigel, former SVP and COO, Aetna/US Healthcare
[Pragmatic Unit Testing] is the best introduction to unit testing that I've ever read! Excellent!
-- Maik Schmidt, ATX Europe
Other books on CVS I've seen give lots of information on the command set, but don't really give you a complete scenario. That's what makes [Pragmatic Version Control Using CVS] so good.
-- Bret Pettichord, Consultant and Author
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 Data Crunching
Programmers always need to move data around, to translate it from one format to another, or extract useful information from it. This book shows the best approaches to "crunching" data in several programming languages; all widely-used data formats are covered, including plain text, XML, relational, and binary data.
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Ruby on Rails Project -- Rails is a new open source web-application framework that provides everything needed to build real-world applications, using fewer lines of code than other development environments. It's a full-stack framework, so all layers are built to work seamlessly together and you can use a single language from top to bottom. Everything from templates to control flow to business logic is written in Ruby. For more on Ruby, see the upcoming book by the Pragmatic Programmers, contributors to the Rails Identity Project, Programming Ruby, 2nd Edition. 
Jolt Winner! Pragmatic wins a Jolt Productivity Award at the 14th Annual Jolt Product Excellence Awards.
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