PragDave

We're Jolt Finalists!

It's up on their web site, so it must be official! Our Pragmatic Starter Kit is listed as a finalist in this year's Jolt Awards (under the general book category). We're in humbling company: The Art of Unix Programming, Raymond Beyond Software Architecture, Hohmann Five Core Metrics, Putnam and Myers Lean Software Development, Poppendieck Waltzing with Bears, DeMarco and Lister

Blog as Contact Manager

Flat files, Emacs, CVS, and a Blog integrate to make a simple contact management system.

Slashdot Effect

Sorry that it’s been quiet on the blog front: I blame a combination of Christmas, the annual family flu epidemic, and Slashdot (the Version Control book had a wonderful review posted by Jared Richardson on Slashdot, and for a while I was in continuous shipping mode. A nice side-effect was that Pragmatic Programmer spent a day in the top 100 on Amazon too :).

Things have quieted down a tad, so I’ll try to get a new Kata out in the next day or so.

Happy New Year!