PragDave

Ruby, Rails, and TextMate

Using the TextMate editor to demonstrate Ruby and the Rails framework is generating some buzz.

The "Dear Manager" Series

Over on his personal blog, Mike Clark just posted the first in what promises to be a series of Dear Manager articles.

Sometimes we developers just know that something is right, but have a hard time convincing the powers that be to believe us. Mike tackles this issue directly in a series of open letters to those holding the pocket book. This first article is all about the benefits of continuous integration and the economics of having a build machine.

Cracking the Top One Thousand

My Amazon Sales Rank to RSS feed script just fed me some new results. NetNewsWire tells me that Andy and I currently have 4 books in the Amazon top 1000:

  At 10/07 15:10, the ranks were:

  Automation:      126
  Version Control: 298
  PragProg:        596
  UT Java:         757
  UT C#:          1992
  RUBY:          37423

We have 3 books in their bestseller list: Mike’s book is currently #4, Version Control #10, and PragProg #23.