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David Heinemeier Hansson
David Heinemeier Hansson is a partner at 37signals, a privately-held Chicago-based company committed to building the best web-based tools possible with the least number of features necessary.37signals' products include Basecamp, Highrise, Backpack, Campfire, Ta-da List, and Writeboard. 37signals'... show more



David Heinemeier Hansson is a partner at 37signals, a privately-held Chicago-based company committed to building the best web-based tools possible with the least number of features necessary.37signals' products include Basecamp, Highrise, Backpack, Campfire, Ta-da List, and Writeboard. 37signals' products do less than the competition -- intentionally.David is also the creator of the Ruby on Rails programming framework that powers all the products at 37signals as well as Twitter, Hulu, Yellow Pages, and thousands of other major web applications.

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Birth date: January 01, 1979
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ybrikman
ybrikman rated it 11 years ago
Pros: it's good to see a book that encourages people to take a more disciplined look at their careers. The book covers many important ideas for being a successful programmer: work with people better than you; don't listen to your parents; be a generalist; find a mentor; learn how to fail; learn to s...
ybrikman
ybrikman rated it 11 years ago
Although there is some good advice in this book, the format makes it hard to remember or apply. Much of the book, especially the first half, felt like a list of platitudes and marketing speak. The second half is a bit better, though the most useful takeaways are just insights about how the company w...
ezuk
ezuk rated it 11 years ago
A pretty good read. I wouldn't say it's particularly in-depth, and they do generalize quite a bit (i.e, just because something worked for them doesn't make it universally true). That said, it's a quick read, broken up into bite-sized chunks (blog posts grouped into chapters, basically).I can't say i...
auntieannie
auntieannie rated it 14 years ago
Some things here are scalable, applicable elsewhere, but a lot presupposes a small company. Quick read. Be a curator. It's the stuff you leave out that matters. Look for things to remove, simplify, and streamline. Stick to what's truly essential. Years of irrelevance (experience). It makes sense to ...
thomcat
thomcat rated it 14 years ago
Short, strong advice. Definitely some ideas worth pursuing here.
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