Go Ruby Go!
2 comments Latest by Thomas Lockney Thu, 03 Aug 2006 02:48:10 GMT
Allison Beckwith forwarded me an email that she got from Powells.com (our favorite independent bookstore)... check out their top technical books right now!
TECH BESTSELLERS
- “The Ruby Cookbook” by Lucas Carlson (Computer Languages)
- “Agile Web Development with Rails” by Dave Thomas (Computer Languages)
- “Ubuntu Hacks” by Jonathan Oxer (Unix)
- “Programming Ruby” by Dave Thomas (Computer Languages)
- “Rails Recipes” by Chad Fowler (Computer Languages)
- “Perl Hacks” by chromatic (Computer Languages)
- “Higher-Order Perl” by Mark Jason Dominus (Computer Languages)
- “Mind Performance Hacks” by Ron Hale-Evans (Popular Science)
- “Mind Hacks” by Tom Stafford (Popular Science)
- “Ajax Design Patterns” by Michael Mahemoff (Internet)
This includes both online and in-store purchases. We’re lucky at PLANET ARGON as we’re only about 4 blocks from their technical book store. ;-)
You’ll also notice that the Ruby books are selling more than the Perl books… Tim O’Reilly “blogged about this the other day.
Congrats on hitting #1 Lucas!
- mental note: ...better hurry and finish my book!
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That’s totally mad. Mind Performance Hacks is a cool book, too!
Of course, putting it in perspective: OSCON was last week and Powell’s ran the “bookstore” at the convention. They also were giving a 35% discount to everyone with a conference badge. Add to that the fact that the Ruby Cookbook was just released last week and that there were a LOT of Ruby people at the convention, and it would actually seem pretty odd for Lucas’ book not to be at the top of the list.