TL;DR: New book project, The Rake Field Manual. Today only, buy early access to it at half-price ($12.50) with coupon code HAPPY0X22. Or get any of my other books and videos at half price with code BDAY0X22. Or get your first three months of RubyTapas for the price of one by signing up using this link. Hi folks! It’s that time of year again. The […]
I am thrilled to announce that my book Confident Ruby is now finished. I even hit my target of releasing by September 1st… if by “September 1st” I had meant “of the following year”. So what is this book and why should you buy it? Confident Ruby is, first and foremost, a book about joy. It’s […]
Two things: today I’m releasing a new book, and I’m having a great big one-day birthday sale. New book! First, the book. As you may know, I released a new gem recently called Naught. What you may not know is that I wrote that gem as a Literate Program. In other words, what I actually wrote was a […]
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 will and get things done. I lost interest in game development pretty quickly and moved […]
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 I use. UPDATE: I’ve published the scripts and Makefiles referenced below on GitHub. Warning: they […]
A developer notebook on applying classic Object-Oriented principles to Ruby on Rails projects.
