Robby on Rails: Go Ruby Go!

Go Ruby Go!

Robby Russell — Wed, 02 Aug 2006 19:14:00 -0500

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!

"Go Ruby Go!" by Thomas Lockney

Wed, 02 Aug 2006 21:48:10 -0500

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.

"Go Ruby Go!" by Ryan Allen

Wed, 02 Aug 2006 20:13:14 -0500

That’s totally mad. Mind Performance Hacks is a cool book, too!