Comments on: Almost There… Book Wise.

By: Edward Ocampo-Gooding

Edward Ocampo-Gooding — Fri, 31 Jul 2009 16:09:09 +0000

This is shaping up to be pretty awesome!

Looking forward to reading your book Mark.

By: Gaveen

Gaveen — Thu, 30 Jul 2009 16:21:58 +0000

Contents definitely look great. Look forward to the book. It’s good to see finally a good book coming up in Ruby distributed programming.

By: Claus Hausbergre

Claus Hausbergre — Wed, 29 Jul 2009 08:18:51 +0000

Sounds very good. Looking forward to reading your distributed Ruby book. Something like this has been missing for a long time.
One question. Does the book also cover performance tuning and scalability of distributed Ruby programs? This is often an issue.
I am playing with JRuby a lot these days. Is this also covered when there are difference for some libraries in comparison to the C version?

By: Daniel Huckstep

Daniel Huckstep — Wed, 29 Jul 2009 04:54:03 +0000

Personally, not that excited. The problem for me is that while this is relevant now, what’s to say half of these technologies will even be around in 2 years? The dragon book teaches fundamentals that were valid when the book originally came out, and are still valid today. I’d be more excited to read a book about distributed programming fundamentals, and then worry about learning the application with ruby, and existing technologies on my own. The book could be applied to virtually any language then, and not just ruby. That’s just one of my little preferences when it comes to books.

By: Mark Bates

Mark Bates — Tue, 28 Jul 2009 03:07:50 +0000

Thanks. The Rough Cuts will be a lot nicer when they finally update it. I assume at this point they are just waiting for the full first draft to update it, which is just a couple of weeks away at this point. Please let me know what feedback you have. I’d love to hear it.

By: Adrian Madrid

Adrian Madrid — Tue, 28 Jul 2009 02:58:46 +0000

Looks very good. I’ll check out the rough cut.