Samurai Coder

I was thinking about getting this book, but to my plesant surprise, this book is now on O'reilly Safari.

Patrick Lenz:

Want to learn all about Ruby on Rails 2.0, the web application framework that is inspiring developers around the world?

The 2nd edition of this practical hands-on guide for first-time Ruby on Rails programmers will walk you through installing the required software on a Windows, Mac or Linux computer. And before you get coding, an entire chapter is devoted to object oriented programming in Ruby, so you’ll be completely confident with the Ruby language before you begin working with Rails.

A new book on O’reilly Safari. An intriguing book about SNSes and profit.

The third edition is now in beta. The book covers Rails 2.0.

I covered Rails 2.0 and the book. You don’t have to wait for the book to come out of beta. Nothing stops us from getting started with web programming.

From the press release:

Safari Books Online, the provider of digital libraries that increase the productivity of IT professionals, today announced an agreement with Packt Publishing to make Packt’s books and other technical publications available online to corporate and individual library subscribers. As Packt’s first online channel distribution partner, Safari Books Online is enabling its subscribers to benefit from access to one of the most comprehensive lists of copyrighted works on Open Source technologies.

Another reason to subscribe to Safari Books Online.

The most difficult thing in writing about Japanese stuff is to translate proper nouns.

SMO(ソーシャルメディア最適化)実践テクニック (Social Media Optimization Practical Technique). The book gave me a good overview in the area. Adds a Japanese perspective to the social media optimization. The book is written for non-experts in this field and comes with a number of illustrative cases. The last chanper is an interview with Tomoharu Sumi, a Japanese expert in this area.

The book is worthwhile for those interested in SMO and have a basic understanding of SEO/SEM. (Note: you should be comfortable with reading Japanese.) And this is way cheaper than attending seminors of this sort. If you only learn things when you attend a lecture, please prepare for the cash and/or giving your and your company’s information.

P.S. Feel free to click the link above. That’s not an Amazon affiliate link unlike links on your website.

Update: The title of this post changed. “Practical Technique” is better than “practice technique”.

To be precise, this is a shell script. The full and fun description for hdutil is on ADC website.

• unmount disk image (*.dmg) file - AppleScript - Snipplr
• mount disk image (*.dmg) file - AppleScript - Snipplr

A No Starch PHP recipe book added to O’reilly Safari.

O’Reilly - Safari Books Online:

Instead of starting at “Hello World,” Wicked Cool PHP assumes that you’re familiar with the language and jumps right into the good stuff. After you learn the FAQs of life-the most commonly wished for PHP scripts-you’ll work your way through smart configuration options and the art of forms, all the way through to complex database-backed scripts.

A new book from O’reilly.

O’reilly - Safari Books Online:

Building on the success of its storefront and fulfillment services, Amazon now allows businesses to “rent” computing power, data storage and bandwidth on its vast network platform. This book demonstrates how developers working with small- to mid-sized companies can take advantage of Amazon Web Services (AWS) such as the Simple Storage Service (S3), Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2), Simple Queue Service (SQS), Flexible Payments Service (FPS), and SimpleDB to build web-scale business applications. With AWS, Amazon offers a new paradigm for IT infrastructure: use what you need, as you need it, and pay as you go. Programming Web Services explains how you can access Amazon’s open APIs to store and run applications, rather than spend precious time and resources building your own.

Head First JavaScript by Michael Morrison;

So you’re ready to make the leap from writing HTML and CSS web pages to creating dynamic web applications. You want to take your web skills to the next level. And you’re finally ready to add “programmer” to the resume. It sounds like you’re ready to learn the Web’s hottest programming language: JavaScript. Head First JavaScript is your ticket to going beyond copying and pasting the code from someone else’s web site, and writing your own interactive web pages.

The Ajax version is also coming in May. Now a good time to learn JavaScript.

Here’s a list of books I found interestig recently.

• Learning Web Design, 3rd Edition by Jennifer Niederst Robbins
• Head First JavaScript by Michael Morrison
• Visual QuickPro Guide PHP 6 and MySQL 5 for Dynamic Web Sites by Larry Ullman
• The Ruby Programming Language by David Flanagan; Yukihiro Matsumoto
• Visual QuickPro Guide Adobe AIR by Larry Ullman
• Adobe Flex 3: Training from the Source by Jeff Tapper; Michael Labriola; Matthew Boles; James Talbot

Yes. You read it right. That’s PHP 6. PHP 6 is coming out this year. The Ruby Programming Language is by Yukihiro Matsumoro, the creator of Ruby.

All the books are available at O’reilly Safari.