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5 Chapters of O’Reilly’s Ruby Best Practices – Free!

rbp.pngRuby Best Practices is a book by Gregory Brown (and published by O'Reilly) that looks into the "Ruby way" of doing things in the Ruby language and, specifically, why Rubyists tend to write Ruby the way they do.

Grab DB2 Express-C 9.7.1 now and join the DB2Night Show

IBM just released DB2 Express-C 9.7.1 (aka DB2 Express-C 9.7 FixPack 1). This version includes a long list of enhancements. Don’t forget to download and install it; as per its previous versions, it’s entirely free of charge.

You can grab it directly from here:

What I’ve Earned and Learned From Writing A Popular(ish) Ruby Book

begruby-edition-2-cover.gif A few days ago I received the latest in a long line of royalty statements for my book, Beginning Ruby (as published by Apress). Long time readers might recall that Ruby Inside was started principally to promote the book, but turned into so much more that the book took a back seat.

Lessons Learned from Three Years of PeepCode

Today marks three years of PeepCode Screencasts and the beginning of the fourth. So we’re running a one-day sale!

Last week I recorded a presentation for the Oxente Rails where I pontificate on some of the things I’ve learned about business over the past few years. Here’s the presentation video (it’s about 30 minutes long):

Rails Envy Podcast - Episode #075: 04/15/2009

Episode 75. Burninator edition.

Firequark : quick html screen scraping


Table of Contents

  1. Introduction
  2. Why Firequark?
    1. XPath vs. CSS Selector
    2. Find CSS Selector manually
    3. Bundle Scraping
  3. Usage - screencast
  4. Installation
  5. Documentation
  6. Todo
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