The Ruby Way review on Slashdot

[Timothy Hunter]

Whoo-hoo! My review of Hal Fulton's _The_Ruby_Way,_Second_Edition_ is on
Slashdot! Nice respite after a loooong day at work fixing bugs in C
programs...

http://books.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=06/11/08/1539259

 

[Hal Fulton]

Whoo-hoo! My review of Hal Fulton's _The_Ruby_Way,_Second_Edition_ is on
Slashdot! Nice respite after a loooong day at work fixing bugs in C
programs...

http://books.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=06/11/08/1539259

Thanks much for writing this, Tim...
you're very kind.


Hal

 

[Hal Fulton]

Hal,

Is there plans to release this as a pdf? I'd really like to get my
(virtual) hands on a pdf of this.

Through Safari, I think.


Hal

 

[Mike Stok]

Sorri I'm not sure what you mean by safari. Do you have a link..

Cheers

http://safari.oreilly.com

--

Mike Stok <[email protected]>
http://www.stok.ca/~mike/

The "`Stok' disclaimers" apply.

 

[Hal Fulton]

Sorri I'm not sure what you mean by safari. Do you have a link..

http://safari.oreilly.com/ I believe...


Hal

 

[David Vallner]

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Wow, precisely ZERO posts before the comments degenerated into unrelated
twaddle, flaming $LANGUAGE, making random utterly uninformed statements
about Ruby's maturity, and more blatant flamebaiting and trollbaiting.

Slashdot never ceases to amaze me...

(Even though it's hardly as bad as the claim that DRM reduces sound
quality because of quantum.)

David Vallner


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[Louis J Scoras]

Wow, precisely ZERO posts before the comments degenerated into unrelated
twaddle, flaming $LANGUAGE, making random utterly uninformed statements
about Ruby's maturity, and more blatant flamebaiting and trollbaiting.

Slashdot never ceases to amaze me...

I Soviet Russia, slashdot trolls YOU!!

 

[Leslie Viljoen]

Hal,

Is there plans to release this as a pdf? I'd really like to get my
(virtual) hands on a pdf of this.

I got it on PDF but with much DRM.
I'm sorry to say that is has been an endless pain for me, many support
emails, much re-authorising, and repeated accusations from the Reader
about me having moved the file to another device. Still today, I can't
read the book I paid for.
So try to get a version without DRM.

Les

 

[spooq]

I Soviet Russia, slashdot trolls YOU!!

slashdot is a meta-troll. It's obvious when you think about it.

 

[EB]

Whoo-hoo! My review of Hal Fulton's _The_Ruby_Way,_Second_Edition_ is on
Slashdot! Nice respite after a loooong day at work fixing bugs in C
programs...

http://books.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=06/11/08/1539259

My favorite quote (so far, I'm not very far into it) from the book:


Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing left to add,
but when there is nothing left to take away.

-- Antoine de St. Exupery

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reminds me very much of Einstein's:

Make everything as simple as possible,
but not simpler.

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and:

Have nothing in your houses that is not useful
or you do not believe to be beautiful.

-- William Morris

 

[Andrew Hunt]

My favorite quote (so far, I'm not very far into it) from the book:


Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing left to add,
but when there is nothing left to take away.

-- Antoine de St. Exupery

My long-time favorite as well; that's why Dave and I put in "The
Pragmatic Programmer" on page 188

Now if we can just get more people to actually *do* that...

/\ndy

 

[hemant]

My long-time favorite as well; that's why Dave and I put in "The
Pragmatic Programmer" on page 188

Now if we can just get more people to actually *do* that...

/\ndy

I have both editions for "Ruby Way" in my safari bookshelf.
Strange..they weren't offering it for addition to bookshelf couple of
days ago.

Now..they do.

 

[EB]

My long-time favorite as well; that's why Dave and I put in "The
Pragmatic Programmer" on page 188

Another great Ruby book!

Now if we can just get more people to actually *do* that...

agreed

eb