Skip to content

William Turrell

Freelance web developer. Drupal 8 Certified Site Builder.

Tag: book

Book recommendation: The Pragmatic Programmer

Rather an old book in computing terms (published 1999), but the advice is still very relevant.  Easy to go back and revise once you’ve finished – chapters are thoroughly indexed, there are tips, a quick reference card and checklists.

Author William TurrellPosted on March 18, 2016March 18, 2016Categories BlogTags book, programming, recommendations

Contact

william [at] wturrell . co . uk

Things outside the blog

  • My main website
    What I do and how to hire me.
  • StackOverflow Careers
    CV/Resume
  • Drupal profile
  • Useful Drupal module database
  • Recommended books
  • Environment
    How I'm trying to measure and reduce my business carbon footprint
  • How we built "Ampp3d"
    Long write-up first WordPress project.
  • How an IDE can help you
    Never tried an IDE? I've outlined some of the benefits over a standard text editor.
  • Am I on social media? Twitter No.

Recent Posts

  • In praise of Lightroom Classic
  • Software to avoid: ExpanDrive
  • You accidentally deleted your entire Apple Photos library. How to undelete it.
  • The WordPress Gutenberg block editor – a FAQ for cynics
  • Mac shortcut tips – playing live radio stations with a single keypress
  • Letsencrypt on Debian 10 – switching to new ‘snap’ based Certbot
  • PhpStorm gotcha: all PHP errors missing – “No errors found in this file”
  • My UK iPhone mail-in battery replacement experience
  • Switch to Gmail basic HTML with a simple URL change
  • Troubleshooting custom WordPress WP-CLI commands running on WP Engine’s SSH Gateway

Archives

  • February 2022
  • July 2021
  • June 2021
  • May 2021
  • April 2021
  • March 2021
  • February 2021
  • November 2020
  • July 2020
  • April 2020
  • March 2020
  • February 2020
  • November 2019
  • October 2019
  • June 2019
  • May 2019
  • April 2019
  • March 2019
  • February 2019
  • December 2018
  • November 2018
  • September 2018
  • August 2018
  • March 2018
  • December 2017
  • November 2017
  • August 2017
  • May 2017
  • April 2017
  • March 2017
  • February 2017
  • January 2017
  • December 2016
  • October 2016
  • September 2016
  • August 2016
  • July 2016
  • June 2016
  • May 2016
  • April 2016
  • March 2016
  • February 2016

Tags

  • api
  • apple
  • backups
  • browsers
  • css
  • debian
  • devdesktop
  • dkim
  • drupal
  • email
  • firefox
  • git
  • gmail
  • html
  • http/2
  • ios
  • iphone
  • javascript
  • laravel
  • letsencrypt
  • macOS
  • mailchimp
  • mysql
  • nginx
  • openssl
  • os x
  • php
  • php7
  • phpstorm
  • postmarkapp
  • productivity
  • programming
  • recommendations
  • security
  • software
  • spam
  • spdy
  • ssl
  • sysadmin
  • TLS
  • transactional email
  • ubuntu
  • weather
  • wordpress
  • xdebug