read the pick-axe

I’m finished! A fantastic ending, really (metaclasses are very interesting)!

Ruby is my favorite language right now. It just feels so right. It’s as natural as speach! Itjust feels so natural to solve problems in.

Good timing for RailsDay and RailsConf, but I still need to brush up on my Rails and get more familiar with that. That’s what I’ll be working on a lot for the next good chunk of time.

I also bought the Ruby for Rails book, though I’m not sure that I’ll be keeping it: it looks like it’s for those familiar with Rails, and not Ruby (the opposite of me). We shall see.

Please read this book!

M.T.

I’m to the chapter on Duck Typing now. Very, very nearly finished! (Hard to believe, really.) The only other book more interesting than this book (of late) was the Pragmatic Programmer! I’ve read this faster than I could ever read the Pragmatic Programmer.

I plan to get my hands a bit dirty with some C and build some extensions for Ruby. I’m really interested in using Rake everywhere, though.

M.T.

I’ve read as far as Exceptions, and the book just gets better and better! I’m really starting to understand more and more of what I’ve read using Ruby, especially the Rails stuff.

After using PHP for 5 years, Ruby is so beautiful and has made me more excited about programming in general. How awesome is that?

Exceptions should be cool. I’m definitely looking forward to the Meta-programming stuff, though, as I’m anxious to get into DSL-specific development as well as really exploring the depths of Ruby.

M.T.

Just finished Agile Web Development with Rails and now heading for the Pick Axe. After all this J2EE mess I really love the approach of Rails and Ruby. Going to love it. I hope.

i just finished the book. yes, all the chapters. at least, up to the libary reference.

and wow, the meta-programming section blew my mind.

class << self

whoa.

half way through. page 317. chapter 22.

i rule.

the chapter on “automating” window’s stuff was pretty cool. i played around with remote controlling a internet explorer. damn, that was cool. i could imagine a really cool web test app, using that. record a person’s navigation, then use that sequence to verify an app worked.

it’s a book about ruby. it’s written by the authors of pragmatic programming.

why is it called pick-axe? because of the cover of the book.

I bought the .pdf version of this today.

I’ve been reading/referencing the first version of the pick axe. It not exactly the same as my goal which I implied v2. But I suppose that a portion of it is the same.