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Mike Clark is a consultant, author, and speaker. Most important, he's a programmer. He helps teams build better software faster through his company, Clarkware Consulting, Inc.

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If you spend significant time working in rails, then its worth a skim over. There are a few cool tricks i didn't know about, and its a good jumping off point.
 
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michaeleconomy | Jan 28, 2009 |
This book didn't have too much for me. If I were a Java programmer, I'd probably be able to get more out of it.

I love some automation, but (so far) I haven't found a standard build system for Perl/PHP. (Autobuild looks promising I suppose)
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dvf1976 | 1 other review | Apr 24, 2008 |
The biggest value this book had for me was being able to show it to other people and say "see! it's not just me! this really is an established practice." Not any of the java bits, of course - the concepts are much broader - but the general idea that it doesn't take *much* automation to greatly improve your ability to successfully produce working software, and that it improves so many things by side-effect. Also the whole idea that you don't want to make your engineers jump through hoops when the hoops can jump through themselves perfectly well.… (more)
 
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eichin | 1 other review | Dec 14, 2006 |

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