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Smalltalk Best Practice Patterns

Kent Beck

Programming

A granular catalogue of object-oriented design patterns at the method-and-variable level, written by the father of XP and TDD. DHH calls it his favorite nuts-and-bolts programming design book, and Rails carries its fingerprints in every helper and naming convention.

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  • David Heinemeier Hansson
    “Probably my favorite nuts'n'bolts of programming design book. Very granular.”

    Listed first in DHH's Signal v. Noise post 'The five programming books that meant most to me' — the foundational five he tells working programmers to read.

    signalvnoise.com