This week, we're delighted to have David Berube helping to answer questions about his new book Practical Ruby Gems. David will hang out in the Object Oriented Scripting forum.
The promotion starts Tuesday, 19th 2007 and will end on Friday, June 22nd 2007.
We'll be selecting four random posters in this forum to win a free copy of the book provided by the publisher, Apress.
Please see the book promotions page to ensure your best chances at winning!
[Big Moose Saloon] Discussion about "Even I" vs. "I also" - English dialects around the world
The software world being an global one, a member observes that certain English phrases are used consistently, yet inappropriately, by non-native speakers. Ranchers from both sides of the language divide discuss why that might be in this thread in the Meaningless Drivel forum.
A member investigates how the cost of introducing changes differs at various stages of a project, and what effect Agile methods have on this. Rancher's comments and the ensuing discussion can be found in this thread in the Agile and Other Processes forum .