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“Confident Ruby” now in Beta!
Hey, remember when I said I’d finish Confident Ruby by September 1, 2012? Ha ha! That was a funny joke! Seriously though, this book has taken much longer than intended, partly as the scope grew, but mostly because of other … Continue reading
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Objects on Rails “Sponsor Edition” now includes a conversation with Sandi Metz!
Objects on Rails comes in three “editions”. There’s the one you can read for free online. There’s the $5 “download edition”. And I also offer a $20 “Sponsor Edition” for people who really feel like it’s worth more than $5, … Continue reading
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Last year I gave a talk entitled “Confident Code” at several conferences and other venues, including RubyNation, RailsConf, Cascadia RubyConf, and Ruby Midwest. Judging by the talk reviews linked above, people seemed to like it. Some of them have said … Continue reading
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Now Available: Objects on Rails
Announcing the immediate availability of Objects on Rails. Free to read online, $5 to download! Continue reading
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A Game Development Curriculum
Along with every other hacker on the planet, I got into programming because I wanted to write games. It wasn’t long at all, though, before I learned that the greatest game of all is teaching the machine to do your … Continue reading
My authoring tools
Several people have asked about my self-publishing process. I’d really like to write something comprehensive about this, along with code/scripts/config for my whole build stack, but I haven’t had time yet. Until that time, here are some notes on tools … Continue reading
Object Oriented Programming Books
A few people have asked for recommendations of good foundational Object Oriented Programming texts. The truth is I’m kind of behind on my formal OOP reading, and some of the early texts I read I wouldn’t recommend. My first proper OOP book was … Continue reading
Early access beta of “Objects on Rails” Now Available
UPDATE: Objects on Rails is now complete and freely available online. Often, at conferences and users group meetings, I find myself discussing the intersection of Ruby on Rails, Object-Oriented development, and Test-Driven Development, and I’ll mention something like “I prefer to develop my … Continue reading
Go get yourself some PragProg books
So Pragmatic Press is offering a 40%-off sale for Agile2011, which is awesome. I’m stocking up for the winter. Someone asked me for recommendations. I don’t have time to write up a proper list, so I just circled the ones … Continue reading
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Get Two Free Months of Hoptoad with Exceptional Ruby
If you’re reading this blog there’s a good chance you already know about Hoptoad. For those who don’t know, Hoptoad is a hosted service that does application error logging. You configure your Ruby on Rails, iOS (or other kinds of … Continue reading
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Tagged errors, Exception handling, exceptions, failures, Hoptoad, reporting, Ruby on Rails
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