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    Cover of Ship it!

    Ship it!

    Jared Richardson, William Gwaltney · 2005

    Business & Management
    Open LibraryAmazon
    Stats for nerds
    1recommend
    4mentions
    4people
    2010–2026years
    25% recommend75% neutral

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    1. simuloFeb 2023
      (OP) To contribute some of my own findings:

      Some high level infos or ideas on the "small web" or "web 0" can be found on:

      – https://ar.al/2020/08/07/what-is-the-small-web/

      – https://www.robinsloan.com/notes/home-cooked-app/

      - https://neustadt.fr/essays/the-small-web/

      Books I found helpful:

      - Ship it (Richardson, Gwaltney)

      - Clean Code (Martin)

      Aside of that:

      - I experimented a bit with DDD, but that feels massively oversized (though some of the concepts are useful)

      - I found Pythons opinionatedness and documentation very helpful in contrast to Javascript, where it is hard to find "a good way" to do things (You see, I like dynamic languages…)

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    2. swader999Aug 2026
      Yes. "Ship it! A practical guide to successful software projects" by Jared Richardson, Will Gwaltney, Jr. has had a few printings since 2005.
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    3. dxsNov 2024
      Several more items along these lines. Two books and one recent blog post...

      > "Ship It! A Practical Guide to Successful Software Projects", by Jared Richardson, Will Gwaltney, Jr

      > "The Pragmatic Programmer, 20th Anniversary Edition, your journey to mastery", by David Thomas, Andrew Hunt

      > "The Libertarian Coder", by Adam Ard, at https://rethinkingsoftware.substack.com/p/the-libertarian-co...

      Me myself, I joined a project that shipped on time. The lead developer, a contractor, begged for just three more months to make it all actually work properly.

      Nope.

      We shipped, and then it took two more years to finally get it functional.

      And the contractor was banned from ever working there again (a WA state agency).

      Yippee!

      thread
    4. asnyderSep 2010
      I remember these methods from one of my books. However, I can't remember which one. It may have been in "Ship It", but can't be certain. http://www.amazon.com/Practical-Guide-Successful-Software-Pr...
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