Rails Beta Book

Just in case you either live under a rock or this weblog is your only source of news:

Dave and Andy have put out a Beta pdf of Agile Web Development with Rails

Go get a copy.

I’m not even a programmer and thought it was a great read.

I don’t mind the rough look, but then again perhaps this typical kind of conversation would be illustrative:

Dean: The type in that book is striking. {see for example this}
Jason: What type of book?
Dean: Not “type of”, the type. The Type? Come on. Type. The Type! OK, ok, the fonts.
Jason: Oh, fonts. Sure. There are different kinds of fonts?
Dean: Ah, yeah.
Jason: Hmm. Who makes them?
Dean: Typographers
Jason: Really?
Dean: Really.
Jason: Wow. Is that easy to do?
Dean: Not really.
Jason: Really? They all look about the same …
Dean: They are most certainly not the same!
Jason: Oh?

I apparently suffer from fontaponia or typeaponia depending on your prefixal preferences.

But back to the book. Go get a copy and then make sure you pay them again when the release pdf comes out, I think it’s great that they made this available in a beta format and they should be encouraged to do so.

·:· Posted 27 May 2005, 23:25 by Jason Hoffman to Elsewhere  |  

  1. So, does anyone know what the font is? I also suffer from fontaponia and was wondering just what makes a font “striking”?

    — Schmoboy    28 May 2005, 00:26    #
  2. If you buy the beta PDF you will automatically get the final version when it’s released. No need to pay twice, even if I’d be happy to :)

    — Chris McGrath    28 May 2005, 12:57    #
  3. I’m about a third of the way through already, and I can say that it’s very good, even in beta form.

    Oh, and the fonts are pretty too.

    — Larry    28 May 2005, 17:23    #
  4. Oh sure, there’s the occasional rough spot, on all kinds of different areas. But that’s no reason not to make the content available now, instead of 2 months from now, when the features the book is referring to will be less ‘hot off the press’.

    — Marten Veldthuis    29 May 2005, 00:32    #
  5. Not sure if this is a more widespread problem, but the Textdrive RSS is causing issues with repeated posts in LiveJournal…

    http://www.livejournal.com/users/textdrive/

    I’d love to not have most of the blog posts show up 5-10 times! :-p

    — ceejayoz    29 May 2005, 01:35    #
  6. Yep, Dean has to fix that.

    — Jason Hoffman    29 May 2005, 03:57    #
  7. Bloglines does this too. The posts reappear when new comments are made.

    — Scott Becker    29 May 2005, 17:27    #
  8. I actually kind of like the effect in bloglines – it lets me know when a comment has been added. dangerous on some blogs, nice for this one. I think you can override by telling bloglines to ignore updates for this blog.

    — Kevan    31 May 2005, 14:46    #
  9. Good point Kevan. I often think the real gems are in the comments.

    — Jason Hoffman    1 June 2005, 00:10    #