[amazonify]0596529864::text::::Learning Ruby[/amazonify] Author: Michael Fitzgerald ISBN 10: 0-596-52986-4 ISBN 13: 9780596529864 Reviewer: Matt Polito Learning Ruby is exactly what the title says. This book offers a great ‘introduction’ to Ruby as a fun, powerful language. Now I would say that as a Ruby user, I’m not quite advanced but not really a beginner. I would have to say that this book is definitely catered to someone very new to the Ruby world. The books author, Michael Fitzgerald, uses a very easy to read style of writing that, to me, made this read far easier than...

While using Prism for Basecamp I ran into an annoying little problem that all the icons from Prism are the default ‘world’ type of icon. I hated this plus it was hard to distinguish the different applications on my desktop. So I found a way to remedy this situation. First I went out and tried to find some high quality icons for Basecamp. Low and behold… 37 signals themselves have provided some decent rez icons to be used for just this occasion. There you can find icons for Basecamp, Backpack, Campfire and Highrise. Fantastic! Now all we need to do is open your favorite photo editor...

This will be a new series that I run where I post interesting or odd headlines I find. For this one… I really couldn’t care less about the article. It’s something we all knew was going to happen, but Engadget created this headline ever so gracefully. “Apple posts $1.58B profit, buys monocle, top hat” [via]

Yesterday I gave a small presentation on migrations in Rails 2.0 for the Chicago Ruby group. It went fairly well I think. Not being the most in depth presentation… I hope that someone got something out of it. I think that the new Rake tasks were a little more interesting for the group to learn about than the actual migrations. Here is the slideshow ( I really suck at Powerpoint) and I’m sure it will also be available at the Chicago Ruby downloads page. Update: You can now view the slideshow here, courtesy of Scribd’s own ‘iPaper’.

Hmm… guess I can’t post the video here! You’ll have check it out at their site.