a timocracy of one

I’ve been busy reworking my site to be more friendly for the gig/job hunt (adding a resume and some other content and reorganizing in general – not quite live yet), so I haven’t been posting much lately. I’ve still been reading and working on some other stuff while I’m not doing that, though, and I just started on The Ruby Way. My first Rails book was the Agile one (no link, if you don’t know what I am talking about, this post probably isn’t for you) as it was for many others, and then moved onto Ruby For Rails at Giles Bowkett’s suggestion. Now that I am on the third in the trifecta, I have to say he is totally on the mark.

One aside, though, avoid the Ruby for Rails e-book version like the plague. The other two are very nicely handled by their publishers as a simple pdf download, but for some reason the Ruby For Rails version is a crappy DRM’ed “ebook” that has to be read in Adobe’s even crappier ebook reader, instead of whatever you normally read your pdfs in.