I'm doing the "store" example from Dave Thomas's "Agile Web Development with Rails" and am stuck. There's a button for the checkout which when clicked gives...
I'm thinking about picking up two books today. One a beginner book in either Agile Software Development or XP. I'm about to start working, and leading, a ...
This book isn't a specific guide to XP or agile methods, but I highly recommend "The Pragmatic Programmer" if you haven't read it yet. It's more of a general...
If you're looking for a GOF substitute, this is a good book. They walk through the basic patterns with good real world examples. It's a book you can read and...
Ed has a pretty good list there, I have to give The Pragmatic Programmer another bump. Also, there's another book by the pragmatic programmers called...
Thanks for all the great suggestions! I did go ahead and purchase "The Pragmatic Programmer: from journeyman to master" today per many of your suggestions. In...
... I'll second Ed's recommendation for Bob Martin's book for a beginner. It combines Agile process and Patterns, and also adds in his unique perspective of...
This request asks or email addresses to complete the survey. It sees authentic based on the domain name registration but I am not sure about the identity...
ok I can't bring all the books since some are on load. I will have the following books for the meeting, perhps someone else can offer a few samples to the show...
I went through this from some other site, not sure where. That one had a group code to enter. I went through it and you end up on her bio/project page at the...
Hmm. Seems I should have looked deeper into the method recirect_to_index. There used to be a reference to "redirect_to" but was some how deleted. Thanks for...
The meeting Tuesday March 6th will be on Improving the User Experience (rescheduled from last month) Ryan Walker will target this talk towards the intermediate...
Hi Gents, As I mentioned in the meeting we are hiring rails developers for a part-time (20-30 hrs/wk), long-term contract position (with possible/desired...
As an test of different languages, I played around with an algorithm I developed some five years ago to find the date and time when daylight savings time...
On May 9-10, Mary and Tom Poppendieck will give their Lean Software Development: Practitioner's course in Charlotte, NC. This is a 2-day course. This is their...
... Tor Norby of the Java Posse has been talking about this on their podcast. Evidently Tor has been doing coding on the Ruby/Netbeans integration while they...
I saw this article today comparing radrails, netbeans, and idea. http://tnlessone.wordpress.com/2007/02/28/ruby-rails-ide-comparison-idea-netbeans-radrails/ ...
I'd like to share a plugin I wrote and used on 3 projects. I wanted to release it to a limited group first to make sure that the svn and README instructions...
REMINDER: Early registration discount expires today. Course highly recommended. Their latest book is a Kent Beck Signature book. I guess that means that he...
Fellow coders - I'm in ruby-refactoring mode today, and my thoughts are on gemology. But before I start polishing, I'm wondering if I've chosen the best...
Can't you define chip dependencies? Then the master gem that app requires contains dependencies on other gems. Each gem-chip can be used independently if...
Edward - I'd rather take the approach that a chunk of software require what it needs - there is no "master" list of dependencies. Of course, one could be built...