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title: "[Free Book]Coding Slave"
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canonical: "https://osherove.com/blog/2005/3/19/free-bookcoding-slave.html"
published: "2005-03-19T17:50:00"
updated: "2005-03-19T17:50:00"
tags: ["Free book chapters"]
author: "Roy Osherove"
description: "\" This has been a month of extraordinary learning and changing awareness for me. Today I am up for trying out new ideas that previously I would have dismissed out of hand. Thus, I am going to follow Kelly's thinking and…"
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# \[Free Book\]Coding Slave

By Roy Osherove March 19, 2005 In [Free book chapters](https://osherove.com/blog/category/free-book-chapters)

**Historical article** · Originally published March 19, 2005; technical details may be outdated.

"_This has been a month of extraordinary learning and changing awareness for me. Today I am up for trying out new ideas that previously I would have dismissed out of hand. Thus, I am going to follow Kelly's thinking and see where it goes.

So, click_ [_here_](http://www.codingslave.com/docs/CodingSlave213.pdf) _to get the full, free version of Coding Slave, the Novel, in PDF format. Pass it around to your friends. Give it to your coworkers. Slide it under your boss's door."_

_\[_[_Bob Reselman is giving it away_](http://codingslave.blogspot.com/2005/03/q-wheres-it-going.html) _- his Book: "[Coding Slave](https://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0974980404/iserializable-20)"\]_

_(via [Rory](http://neopoleon.com/blog/posts/13371.aspx))_

I think Bob is going to get back what he's given away ten-fold. What's probably going to happen is that I'm going to start reading the book, then notice that I like it, which will make me order the printed version to read whenever however I want. And I won't be the only one, I bet.

Very cool

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## About the author

**Roy Osherove**: Senior Solutions Architect at AWS working on AI for production and AI-driven development; author of The Art of Unit Testing and Elastic Leadership, with about 20 years of consulting and training on unit testing, TDD, team leadership and continuous delivery.

### Sites

- [RobotPaper](https://robotpaper.ai/): This blog: AI patterns and anti-patterns, AI and coding agents, and engineering leadership.
- [osherove.com](https://osherove.com): Roy's personal site. Author of The Art of Unit Testing and Elastic Leadership; consulting and training on unit testing, TDD, team leadership and continuous delivery, plus about 20 years of blog posts.
- [The Art of Unit Testing](https://www.artofunittesting.com): The Art of Unit Testing, 3rd Edition (Manning): readable, maintainable, trustworthy unit tests, plus TDD workshops in C#, JavaScript, Java and Kotlin.
- [5whys.com](https://www.5whys.com): Roy's writing on software team leadership: self-organizing teams, surviving chaos, learning mode and the Elastic Leadership model.
- [Pipeline Driven](https://pipelinedriven.org): Continuous delivery and DevOps practices: build patterns, pipeline-friendly testing, DevOps metrics and enterprise DevOps.
- [Elastic Leadership](https://www.elasticleadership.com): Elastic Leadership, Roy's framework for software team leaders (survival, learning and self-organizing modes).

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### License

Licensed under CC BY 4.0 — reuse, quote and adapt with attribution (Roy Osherove, link to the original page). License: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/