Archive for April, 2006

Service From Pragmatic Bookshelf

Wednesday, April 19th, 2006

I bought a book back in 2004 from the Pragmatic Programmer, called Pragmatic Version Control using Subversion (PDF).  I just found out they have a policy where you can update the book for as long as they continue to maintain it.  You just need three bits of information, which can be found in the FAQ.
So, [...]

Podcast: RoR Interview with Jim Weirich

Wednesday, April 12th, 2006

URL: Jim Weirich – Ruby on Rails PodcastDownloaded: 4/7/2006
Thoughts:
This was a good hearted interview with the inventor of the Ruby makeprogram ‘Rake’.  It was developed in response to a build problem he wastrying to fix with ‘make’.
It provides yet another inspiration to look more closely at thislanguage to get an understanding on why people find [...]