Posted by Mike
Sun, 01 Jul 2007 19:30:00 GMT
Update 09/2010: This is one of my favorite Rails and MVC pattern books, please consider purchasing your own copy: Agile Web Development with Rails, Third Edition
I've been helping out a little on Eachday.com and when I was debugging with some real pictures I placed in my account I noticed the agile resemblance. Eachday is an awesome social media site like Flickr but you collect, sort, and display your media along your real life time line. They are using MMS2R technology as well by the way. Maybe I can be on the next cover of Agile Web Development with Rails
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Posted by Mike
Tue, 13 Feb 2007 06:33:00 GMT
I've started reading Spring in Action at work for a new project (I get paid to write Java). I think I might like Java again, thanks Spring. Our group is also thinking about using JBoss SEAM ... which I fondly refer to JBoss on Rails
JBoss Seam is written by Michael Yuan and Thomas Heute from the Seam Team at JBoss
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Posted by Mike
Thu, 25 Jan 2007 07:02:00 GMT
| I’ve started reading the second edition of Agile Web Development with Rails . I’m going to try something different and append my notes from each chapter to his blog entry as I read them. I bought this book from The Pragmatic Programmers site with the PDF copy of the book. I like having the PDF copies of their books (I currently own the PickAxe book , the Agile Rails book, and the Rail Recipes books) so I can reference them without having to search the internet or crack open my real book for a discussion of a question I might have. |
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Posted by Mike
Mon, 22 Jan 2007 02:14:00 GMT
A couple of years ago Slashdot reviewed of “Head First Design Patterns” by Elisabeth Freeman, Eric Freeman, Bert Bates, and Kathy Sierra.
| I bought the book but at the time wasn’t programming Java and didn’t take any further action. A weird twist of circumstance was at the time Elisabeth Freeman and Eric Freeman lived in the same town as me and I would see them on the ferry that we commute on. I knew that they were Java programmers by the JavaOne backpacks that they had but I didn’t know they were the authors of the book. Anyway, they don’t live here now, which is too bad, because I would let them know that I learned a lot from their work. |
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The way that I self teach is to read a book and either take notes while reading or take summary notes at the end of the chapter. Then when finished with the book recompile my notes. These are my notes from the book. They will not replace your notes when you read the book but do provide a nice reference in and of themselves (and make for some blog content).
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Posted by Mike
Sun, 14 Jan 2007 18:59:00 GMT
After reading Slashdot’s review of “CSS: The Missing Manual” by David Sawyer McFarland, I was interested in learning more about CSS so I picked up a copy.
| The book gave me a better understanding about the different structures in CSS but what I really learned was how to properly structure HTML, validate HTML, and how valid HTML will improve search engine results for a page i.e. Seach Engine Optimization. |
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I recommend the book for your collection and here are my notes from reading the book …
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Posted by Mike
Sun, 31 Dec 2006 03:25:00 GMT
I read the following books in 2006. I’m writing this post to guilt myself into writing a review for each.
- CSS: The Missing Manual (ISBN 0596526873)blog post
- Programming Ruby: The Pragmatic Programmers’ Guide, Second Edition (ISBN: 0974514055)
- Head First Design Patterns (ISBN: 0596007124)
blog post
- Rails Recipes (ISBN: 0977616606)
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