http://blogs.codegear.com/markhowe Javaist, Rubyist, Guitarist :> Fri, 04 Apr 2008 16:49:27 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en-US I highly recommend Matz's new book "The Ruby Programming Language". The book is written by David Flanagan (Java in a nutshell series) and Matz. It's very clear and well written. It also includes coverage of 1.9 and indicates the differences between 1.8. It also has a chapter on ... http://blogs.codegear.com/markhowe/2008/04/04/33442 Three of us from the 3rdRail team along with Anders and Matthias are here in Berlin for RailsConf. This is our second RailsConf, the first one was in Portland earlier in the year. Being at RailsConf is really fun, it's like being at JavaOne the first couple of years, ... http://blogs.codegear.com/markhowe/2007/09/19/33441 The first thing I do when I'm interested in learning a new language is try to find an IDE that helps me out with all the mundane stuff, but more importantly helps me explore samples and libraries. If I can't find an IDE that's usefull I will usually move ... http://blogs.codegear.com/markhowe/2007/03/22/33440 This is my first blog at CodeGear even though I've been with Borland for over 6 years. I'm going to be mostly talking about Ruby, I suspect initially it will from the perspective of a Java developer learning Ruby. Anyway, a little background may be useful. I've been writing ... http://blogs.codegear.com/markhowe/2007/03/21/33394