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MICHAEL
Jan 22, 2008
MICHAEL rated it: 2 of 5 stars (review of isbn 0977616630)

bookshelves: work-related
Read in December, 2007
Dave thomas is a pretty good writer, I thought that The Pragmatic Programmer was an excellent book. However, alot of the garbage suggested in AWD makes me doubt how much experience the author has writing scalable, agile, high traffic web-applications.

If you go into this book looking to learn how to code with rails, thats fine, but don't expect to learn to program well for the web from this book. Infact, be prepared to ignore large portions of the book.

Anyway I guess th...more
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Andrew
Aug 31, 2008
Andrew rated it: 4 of 5 stars

bookshelves: tech
Steps through the creation of a simple but useful application - very much a workbook for Rails.
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twitter.com/raysiu
Dec 05, 2006
twitter.com/raysiu rated it: 4 of 5 stars

Read in January, 2006
recommends it for: people on rails
probably would want the ruby programming book by the same author to go along with it.
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Amiruddin Nagri
Jul 30, 2007
Amiruddin Nagri marked it as to-read

bookshelves: book, ruby, technical, to-read
gave to chris
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Fengfirst
May 28, 2008
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bookshelves: currently-reading, ruby

Sung Hoon Lee
Jan 22, 2008
Sung Hoon Lee rated it: 5 of 5 stars


Adrian
Feb 19, 2008
Adrian rated it: 4 of 5 stars (review of isbn 0977616630)

bookshelves: programming
Read in January, 2007

Ynw
Apr 03, 2008
Ynw rated it: 5 of 5 stars


Amelia
Aug 31, 2007
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Ivan
Jun 30, 2008
Ivan rated it: 4 of 5 stars


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Jun 18, 2009
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Santiago Pastorino
Oct 03, 2009
Santiago Pastorino marked it as to-read

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Santiago Pastorino
Oct 03, 2009
Santiago Pastorino marked it as to-read (review of isbn 1934356166)

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Peter Baker
Apr 12, 2007
Peter Baker rated it: 5 of 5 stars

bookshelves: comp-sci

Michael
Jan 08, 2007
Michael rated it: 5 of 5 stars


evan pon
Aug 29, 2006
evan pon rated it: 4 of 5 stars


Otis Chandler
Aug 29, 2006
Otis Chandler rated it: 5 of 5 stars

bookshelves: nonfiction, programming