This Book Is About Us

This is a book for developers of all kinds. However, it has little to do with code. It doesn’t matter if you program in C# or Ruby or Python or PHP or Java or JavaScript or ActionScript. It doesn’t matter whether you’re working on databases, writing server-side code, or scripting the interface. This book is about everything that surrounds the professional developer beyond the bounds of markup and objects.

That doesn’t mean we’ll leave programming in the dust, though. There will be some talk about code. However, when we talk about code, we’ll approach it in a less technical, far more holistic way. You won’t see a laundry list of best practices or design patterns. Plenty of books do a great job of that, and we’ll mention a few along the way.

This book is about what real, modern-day programmers do to flourish in our industry. Let’s begin.