Ruby

Top 12 Ruby on Rails Tutorials (#)

Posted in Ruby on Friday, November 18th, 2005

Jim Rutherford passes on these links, the 12 tutorials that [he] found most useful for learning Ruby on Rails.

Rails Weenie - find answers to your Ruby on Rails questions (#)

Posted in Ruby on Thursday, December 1st, 2005 | Via

A point based question and answer website for rails issues. I suppose the title pretty much explained everything...

Combining XMLHttpRequest and Rails to Produce More Efficient UIs (#)

Posted in Ruby on Friday, March 11th, 2005 | Via

This 6 chapter 'book' walks through the construction of how to build an Ajax based 'line-item' editor using Ruby on Rails as the backend.

Ruby: DreamweaverMX (#)

Posted in Ruby on Thursday, March 24th, 2005 | Via

From Rubygarden, instructions for adding Ruby syntax hilighting to Dreamweaver MX.

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SiteUptime Web Site Monitoring Service

Sitepoint's web devlopment books have helped me out on many occasions both for finding a quick solution to a problem but also to level out my knowlegde in weaker areas (JavaScript, I'm looking at you!). I am recommending the following titles from my bookshelf:

The Principles Of Successful Freelancing

I started freelancing by diving in head first and getting on with it. Many years and a lot of experience later I was still able to take away some gems from this book, and there are plenty I wish I had thought of beforehand. If you are new to freelancing and have a lot of questions (or maybe don't know what questions to ask!) do yourself a favor and at least check out the sample chapters.

The Art & Science Of JavaScript

The author line-up for this book says it all. 7 excellent developers show you how to get your JavaScript coding up to speed with 7 chapters of great theory, code and examples. Metaprogramming with JavaScript (chapter 5 from Dan Webb) really helped me iron out some things I was missing about JavaScript. That said each chapter really helped me to develop my JavaScript skills beyond simple Ajax calls and html insertion with libs like JQuery.

The PHP Anthology: 101 Essential Tips, Tricks & Hacks

Like the other books listed here, this provides a great reference for the PHP developer looking to have the right answers from the right people at their fingertips. I tend to pull this off the shelf when I need to delve into new territory and usually find a workable solution to keep development moving. This only needs to happen once and you recoup the price of the book in time saved from having to develop the solution or find the right pattern for getting the job done..