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Online Rails Development with Heroku
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Three Great Books for Learning and Mastering Ruby on Rails
I tend to read a lot of technical books. My current passion is with the Ruby programming language and the Rails web application framework which is built on top of the Ruby language. I’m also a published technical author myself. The book that
The Java Phrasebook as a Teaching Tool
It has been suggested to me by several reviewers including this one at the Java Lobby that the Java Phrasebook which I wrote last year would make an excellent text book or companion to a text book for a course on Java programming. After thinking abo
Programming Languages : Use the best tool for the job
Over the weekend I finished reading the book The Rails Way. I actually enjoyed this book so much that I took the time to read it cover to cover. As good as this book was, it is not specifically the topic of this post. The last chapter of the book
What is RESTful Development?
This article is cross-posted from blog.timothyfisher.com . Recently, there has been a surge in popularity for a development pattern or technique known as RESTful development. Popular frameworks such as Ruby on Rails are fueling popularity of RE
Ruby on Rails Bible Coming Soon!!!
My next book will be coming in early spring, most likely May, 2008 from Wiley. The book is the Ruby on Rails Bible. The book covers the Rails framework in detail providing an overview of the Ruby programming language, an overview of Rails, detailed
My new book; the Java Phrasebook
My new book, the Java Phrasebook from Sams Publishing provides a great concise guide to more than 100 customizable code snippets–so you can readily code functional Java in just about any situation. The Java Phrasebook gives you the code phrases you n
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Memory Caching in WAS
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Examining the Programming Model Extensions
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