Month: November 2010

Black Friday Deal for Pragmatic Bookshelf

There’s a one day sale going on at Pragmatic Bookshelf:

Everything will be available for 40% off Friday November 26th *

That everything includes my book, Driving Technical Change.

So stock up for yourself, buy gifts for your benerded friends, or just BUY MY BOOK! 😉

Get more details at the Pragmatic Bookshelf.

* Everything evidently excludes The Pragmatic Programmer, and Programming Ruby 1.9 for perfectly rational reasons.

Driving Technical Change on Kindle

I’ve gotten a few questions about the availability of Driving Technical Change on a Kindle. Short answer is that you cannot buy Driving Technical Change through the Kindle store.

That does not mean that you cannot read the book on your Kindle though. You can buy an eBook version of the book from the Pragmatic Bookshelf. Once purchased you can buy and download epub, mobi (Kindle format), and/or PDF.

If you switch eReader technology in the future, you can come back and download the appropriate version.

Finally in print – Driving Technical Change

Ever go to a technology conference, read a coding book, or just get inspired by a blog post to try something new? You try it, you love it, you want everyone else at work to do it. 

Everyone else says “No- not just no, hell no.”

It’s easy to blame your coworkers. But the responsibility lies with you. If something is great, and your coworkers aren’t buying, then you need to up your game.
I had this problem. I worked through it. I started changing what I did. If it worked, I did it more.
I started recording what I was doing and started shaping it into a presentation and a book.
In a moment of hubris, I pitched the book to Pragmatic Bookshelf. In a moment of luck they picked it up. In many moments of staring at a blank screen, I wrote it.
Now it’s in print.
I sincerely hope that what’s in the book helps people change their workplaces for the better. I also hope people buy the book.