February 26th, 2007 1 Comment »
It isn’t often you find an author you like so well that you recommend them to everyone. An even more rare occasion is when you find an entire publisher who you do the same for. Pragmatic Programmers is one such publisher, and if you haven’t heard of them, I would recommend every book that I’ve read of theirs. This list includes:
- Agile Development With Rails (Second Edition)
- Programming Ruby
- Pragmatic Ajax
- Pragmatic Version Control Using Subversion
- Rapid GUI Development with RubyQT
- Pragmatic Project Automation
- Practices of an Agile Developer
In case you missed the earlier link: http://www.pragmaticprogrammer.com/
These books have influenced me as a developer heavily, take a look.
February 19th, 2007 3 Comments »
Well, our scoring engine is being used, it had its first trial by fire this weekend at a competition. I’m still waiting to hear on the results. One thing that became painfully obvious throughout all this is the state of disrepair the web frameworks of python are in. So, we’ve decided to move it to ruby and ruby on rails for the next version, for next year. With out last iteration called ScorchedPy, I was toying with new "clever" names for a scoring engine in ruby. The best I could come up with is Scuby. Anyone have any ideas?
Also, I discovered something painfully this weekend. Be gentle on your hands, programmers. They’re your tools. I bowled this weekend and attempted a new technique. That wasn’t such a hot idea. So today I have a sore arm and typing isn’t very pleasant. We’ll see how it all goes tomorrow.