{"id":5569,"date":"2013-09-03T01:14:12","date_gmt":"2013-09-02T17:14:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/?p=5569"},"modified":"2013-09-03T01:14:12","modified_gmt":"2013-09-02T17:14:12","slug":"coding-horror-recommended-reading-for-developers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/2013\/09\/03\/coding-horror-recommended-reading-for-developers\/","title":{"rendered":"Coding Horror: Recommended Reading for Developers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Pragmatic Programmer: From Journeyman to Master<br \/>\nThis book reminds me a lot of Programming Pearls, but it&#8217;s actually better, because it&#8217;s less focused on code. Instead of worrying about code, the authors boiled down all the practical approaches that they&#8217;ve found to work in the real world into this one book. Not all of these things are technically programming. For example, asking yourself &#8220;why am I doing this? Is this even worth doing at all?&#8221; isn&#8217;t thinking outside the box; it&#8217;s something you should incorporate into your daily routine to keep yourself&#8211; and your co-workers&#8211; sane. And that&#8217;s what makes Pragmatic Programmer such a great book.<br \/>\nIf you&#8217;d like to know a little more about the book, I created a HTML version of the pullout reference card included inside, which provides a nice overview of the contents.<br \/>\nvia <a href=\"http:\/\/www.codinghorror.com\/blog\/2004\/02\/recommended-reading-for-developers.html\">Coding Horror: Recommended Reading for Developers<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Pragmatic Programmer: From Journeyman to Master This book reminds me a lot of Programming Pearls, but it&#8217;s actually better, because it&#8217;s less focused on code. Instead of worrying about code, the authors boiled down all the practical approaches that they&#8217;ve found to work in the real world into this one book. Not all of &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/2013\/09\/03\/coding-horror-recommended-reading-for-developers\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Coding Horror: Recommended Reading for Developers&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[79],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5569","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reposts"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5569","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5569"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5569\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5569"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5569"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5569"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}