Agile Web Development with Rails is complete

Posted by Scott Laird Wed, 13 Jul 2005 18:37:59 GMT

Dave Thomas just posted that Agile Web Development with Rails is complete and has been released for printing.

This is the first book on Rails, and it’s been a fascinating process watching them develop it. Dave claims that their beta book process has made this one of the most Agile book development processes ever. I ordered it on the first day that it was available, and I’ve now sorted through three or four different PDFs and reported a couple different errors. I think I posted the very first error on their public errata-tracking system, but it’s hard to get it to sort by time now that there are zillions of entries from different reviewers.

I’m looking forward to receiving my final PDF and (eventually) the final printed copy of the book.

Congratulations on a job well done, guys.

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Programming Ruby 2nd Edition Pre-order

Posted by Scott Laird Tue, 14 Sep 2004 20:22:21 GMT

The second edition of Programming Ruby is now available for pre-order. The first edition was easily my favorite Ruby book, but it’s a bit dated now. The second edition covers Ruby 1.8.2, and includes an extra couple hundred pages of reference material.

In addition to the printed version (available via Amazon, etc), they’re also selling PDF copies of the book. If you order them together, then you pay $10 extra for the PDF, which seems really reasonable to me. I’d much rather search through the PDF then deal with the index of a printed book. I’d like to see other programming books sold with the same model.

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More Pragmatic Programmer books

Posted by Scott Laird Tue, 14 Oct 2003 23:00:47 GMT

Dave Thomas and Andy Hunt’s The Pragmatic Programmer is one of the best programming books that I’ve read in years. Dave’s talk at last year’s Ruby Conference was one of the highlights of the event for me. Now, they’re back with a pair of new books:

It’s been a busy couple of months here as we prepare to launch our new book-printing imprint, The Pragmatic Bookshelf. We spent the year writing the first two books, Pragmatic Version Control and Pragmatic Unit Testing. [PragDave]

Time for two more entries on my to-read list.

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