On 8/9/07, TW Scannell <twscannell hotmail.com> wrote:
> Thanks, I am doing just about what you said.
>
> Let's see, I read Holzners "Begining Ruby on
Rails" Then I started into
> Thomas' "Agile Rails". At the end of the
Store example I broke off to read
> "Programming Ruby". When I finish them, I
have 3 more then the ROR Recipes
> and Ruby puzzles on order. I also did 7 of the Peepcode
screen casts
> http://peepcode.com/
I have spent quite some time in rails && ruby over
the past
couple-o-years and its been a great ride.
>
> In the middle of this I have started using Linux, so it
has been crazy
> around here.
I dont remember not using *nix. Im glad that you have been
dabbling in
it. I hope that you can become as passionate about the
ideals and
philosophy behind Open Source as some of the members of the
list are.
>
> When I say "read", I mean every word. Thomas
is a good author, but,
> excluding tax codes and the Spanish version of
"Hawaii", his books are the
> hardest reading volumes that I have ever tackled. He
assumes that the reader
> knows C, C++, Perl, PHP and java. In the Ruby book, I
sometimes end up in
> the index 10 times on a single page just to make sense
of the code samples.
> Yesterday I read 8 hours and made 70 pages and that was
a good day!
>
> Do any of you have time to field a few questions. I
will throw them up on
> the board for y'all to shoot at.
It never hurts to just ask away. I'm almost certain that
even though
the total members of the group is small... collectively we
have
immense experience and can help you tackle anything.
Best of luck!!! Welcome to the greener pasture.
P.S. If you want to see some cool stuff spend some time
with
OpenSolaris (At least build 55) and mess with ZFS.
-Mark
>
> Thanks in advance.
>
> TeeDub
>
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