David A. Black

Reflections from "The Compleat Rubyist"

Ever since 2005, I’ve been attending and speaking at Ruby events. But the one thing I always wanted to do was run training sessions. Thankfully, over the last couple years, LSRC has allowed me to get my feet wet — but only as one of many excellent choices in a lineup of Ruby’s best and brightest. Until last weekend, I had never participated in professional training event that stood on its own.

2009 Reading list

Recently – for various degrees of recent that is – people really seem to be into programming language design and development.

Simple AWS scripting with boto

Recently – for various degrees of recent that is – people really seem to be into programming language design and development.

Android and me

Recently – for various degrees of recent that is – people really seem to be into programming language design and development.

happynerds.net is online!

Recently – for various degrees of recent that is – people really seem to be into programming language design and development.

Ruby 1.9 Part II

PeepCode has teamed up with Gregg Pollack, Jason Seifer, and David A. Black of Envycasts to provide you with their current library of screencasts!

Jump into the future of Ruby with part 2 of this two part series on the distinguishing new features of Ruby 1.9. Topics covered in this 35-minute screencast include:

Ruby 1.9 Part I

PeepCode has teamed up with Gregg Pollack, Jason Seifer, and David A. Black of Envycasts to provide you with their current library of screencasts!

Jump into the future of Ruby with this two part series on the distinguishing new features of Ruby 1.9. Topics covered in this 41-minute screencast include:

Review: The Well-Grounded Rubyist (Manning Publications)

After reading Scripting Java Libraries With Ruby on the Engine Yard

Interview: Author David Black

Our Book Promotion: “The Well-Grounded Rubyist” starts today. Win one of four books to be given out for active participation. The coolest thing? Author David A. Black will be on site to answer questions! Click here for more details. Here, in this brief interview, Satish Talim of RubyLearning talks to David A. Black.

Ruby 1.9 screencasts plus an announcement

Previously I mentioned the importance of migrating away from Ruby 1.8, in favor of 1.9. Before my business trip to Italy, I had a chance to watch David A. Black’s new videos for Envycast, in which he presents the essential concepts required to migrate from Ruby 1.8 to 1.9. This pair of videos totals roughly an hour and a quarter, and can be purchased in a package deal for $16.

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