Mark Holton's Weblog :: Web Application Development

A web developer, architect, & aspiring RESTafarian's thoughts on software, web tech, entrepreneurial endeavors and some creative ideas. Mark's current focus is on developing elastic & RESTful Ajax applications on the Cloud with the following technologies: OO and unobtrusive JavaScript using the Prototype JS library, jQuery, and on the server side prefers to write OO code in Ruby, Rails; Amazon EC2 AS3 SimpleDB; mySQL; -- currently learning a new language each year and groking Unix

Wednesday, January 28, 2009

Recommended Ruby, Rails, REST books!

I have read the following books (some more closely than others). I'd recommend each of them for various reasons. All have been helpful in understanding many of the pragmatic concepts baked into Rails, understanding the Ruby programming language, and web development in general. I hope you have a chance to check them out on your own path of learning!
:Mark

RESTful Web Services

The Ruby Way, Second Edition: Solutions and Techniques in Ruby Programming (2nd Edition) (Addison-Wesley Professional Ruby Series)

The Rails Way (Addison-Wesley Professional Ruby Series)

Design Patterns in Ruby (Addison-Wesley Professional Ruby Series)

Ruby for Rails: Ruby Techniques for Rails Developers

Prototype and Scriptaculous in Action [Ajax]

Advanced Rails Recipes

Developing Facebook Platform Applications with Rails (Pragmatic Programmers)

Agile Web Development with Rails, 2nd Edition

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Unknown9:44 PM
Hey, nice site you have here! Keep up the excellent work!
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