Marc and Jason reviewed Everyday Scripting with Ruby for Teams, Testers, and You by Brian Marick and both gave it 9 out of 10 horseshoes.

If you're new to Ruby, Everyday Scripting with Ruby is the best bang for your Ruby buck. ... Other books and tutorials made me familiar with Ruby; this gem made me comfortable with it. ... This title is aimed squarely at using Ruby for scripting. "Everyday Scripting with Ruby" is a task-oriented tutorial that will help the reader quickly become productive writing useful scripts.

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Jeanne reviewed Google Web Toolkit: GWT Java Ajax Programming by Prabhakar Chaganti and gave it 8 out of 10 horseshoes.

I learned a lot about GWT reading this book. The book assumes you know Java and web programming (HTML/JavaScript/Web packaging) well. ... I think this book and the website complement each other nicely by providing different perspectives.

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