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My Reading List on 8/31/2010

over 1 year ago by pate on On Ruby.
Thanks to Prentice Hall and Addison-Weseley giving me three new books, my reading list has bulked back up.  Here's what I'm working through at the moment...

Reading List Update 9/8/2010

over 1 year ago by pate on On Ruby.
The recent news that GDB now supports D makes The D Programming Language jump up a notch or two on my reading list. I've finished 52 Loaves: One Man's Relentless...

Review - Eloquent Ruby

~1 year ago by pate on On Ruby.
The system management/administration team that I work on is starting to do more scripting and tool building.  That means bringing a bunch of people up to...

Ruby and Protocol Buffers, Take One

~1 year ago by pate on On Ruby.
At work, we're moving from XML to protocol buffers.  While we're mostly a Java shop, the operations/sysadmin team I'm on does a lot of Ruby. I was interested...

Ruby and Protocol Buffers, Take One and a Half

~1 year ago by pate on On Ruby.
In a comment on my previous post on Protocol Buffers, Clayton O'Neill recommended trying out the java protobuf library with jruby. I'll get to that eventually...

Protocol Buffers - BJ Neilsen's Take

~1 year ago by pate on On Ruby.
BJ Neilsen (@localshred or at github) is a member of my local Ruby Brigade, and he's hacking with/on Protocol Buffers with Ruby — oh, and he's a fan of...

Protocol Buffers - Brian Palmer's Take

~1 year ago by pate on On Ruby.
Here's another in my continuing series of Ruby Protocol Buffers posts. This time, I've got an interview with Brian Palmer.(I interviewed Brian about his...

The Art of R: interview and mini-review

3 months ago by pate on On Ruby.
The Art of R Programming is an approachable guide to the R programming language. While tutorial in nature, it should also serve as a reference. Author...