This review of the The Ruby Way, Second Edition mentions one of Ruby’s fun little corners. To illustrate, what is the value of “doop” after this code?
x = true
y = false
doop = y or x
The correct answer is “false” because the “and” and “or” operators in Ruby have lower precedence then the assignment operator. […]
Ruby for Rails might just top the classic PickAxe for the best all around Ruby book…
The Ruby Cookbook has been released, at least according to Ruby Inside. Over 900 pages of ruby recipes. Sounds like a nice companion to the pickaxe book for some decent example code - seems like I could always use more help with doing things using Ruby idioms.
I’ve also updated my Ruby and Rails […]
I’m reading The Essential Drucker, a compilation of some of the best of Peter Drucker’s writings. Drucker had a amazing ability of distilling business to its essentials. He’s writing for managers, but managers in the sense that all knowledge workers are increasingly becoming their own managers.
There are a lot of parallels with agile […]
Kathy Sierra recently blogged about her positive experience with the Shangri-La diet (no link love from me). I love Kathy’s blog, her books are great, and she is a great presenter. But she should stick to mind hacks and learning theory instead of advocating diet books.
While, I commend her on success in losing […]
Chartreuse nails another one - the full article at Know More Media.
Plus, that quote makes a great headline.
Explosion of the Ruby book market - at least sixteen books coming 2006!
Brian Marick started a book on objects in Ruby five years ago called A Little Ruby, A Lot of Objects [PDFs here]. Its written in the unique style the The Little Schemer and A Little Java, A Few Patterns. You could go as far as to call these books the Socratic method applied […]
Malcolm Gladwell, the author of The Tipping Point and Blink, is now blogging.
I noticed in the past day or two, he went from a nasty white-text on black background theme to the much nicer theme he has now. He also went in and added line breaks to this post, which was pretty […]
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