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First Book Review is a 5-Star One!

Mark Bates — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 21:09:56 +0000

About.com became the first, that I know about, to review my book, “Distributed Programming with Ruby”. What a great first review to have as well. They rated the book 5 out of 5 stars! The review can be found here.

“Anyone working with distributed programming in Ruby will want this book.”

The only downside they saw in the book, was that they wanted it to be longer! I have to save something for the 2nd edition, don’t I?

If you haven’t purchased yours yet, I encourage you to do so. It’s on sale at Amazon.com right now.

If you have reviewed the book, or know of a review of the book, please pass it along.

Mack featured on this week’s Rails Envy Podcast

Mark Bates — Fri, 17 Oct 2008 15:41:54 +0000

The great guys over at RailsEvny.com have been nice enough again to include Mack in one of their podcasts. If you aren’t a regular subscriber to the podcast (and why not?), you really should be. Take a listen:

http://railsenvy.com/2008/10/15/rails-envy-podcast-episode-051-10-15-2008

Thanks again guys for the inclusion, and keep up the good work!

Mack 0.7.0 featured on this week’s RailsEnvy podcast

Mark Bates — Thu, 04 Sep 2008 18:10:36 +0000

The release of Mack 0.7.0 was featured as the lead story this week in the railsenvy.com podcast. They guys had great things to say about Mack, have a listen:

http://www.railsenvy.com/2008/9/3/rails-envy-podcast-episode-045-09-03-2008

As always, if you don’t subscribe to the podcast, you definitely should. It’s one of the best ones around.

Mack Article/Interview on RubyInside

Mark Bates — Tue, 26 Aug 2008 14:58:06 +0000

Peter Cooper just posted a very nice article about Mack, which features an interview with me, Mark Bates, over on Ruby Inside. Please check it out:

http://www.rubyinside.com/mack-distributed-ruby-web-application-framework-releases-070-1107.htmlÂ

Mack 0.6.0 featured on this week’s RailsEnvy Podcast

Mark Bates — Wed, 23 Jul 2008 16:53:00 +0000

http://www.railsenvy.com/2008/7/23/rails-envy-podcast-episode-039-07-23-2008

If you’re not familiar with the podcast, I highly recommend checking it out. It’s a very informative, and highly entertaining podcast about all things Ruby.

Good work guys, keep it up!

Ruby Inside review of Mack

Mark Bates — Sat, 12 Apr 2008 01:02:02 +0000

http://www.rubyinside.com/mack-a-fast-best-of-the-rest-web-app-framework-856.html

As you may, or may not not, I’m a big fan of Ruby Inside. It’s one of my favorite Ruby based blogs on the web. Peter Cooper does a great job with this site, and has recently started the RubyFlow.com website, which is a bit more of a ‘firehouse of Ruby’ type site.Â

Anyway, today Peter gave a very favorable review of Mack. I would definitely encourage you to head on over and have a read of it.

Thanks Peter.

Mack featured on the RailsEnvy.com podcast

Mark Bates — Thu, 13 Mar 2008 18:37:01 +0000

Well, um… the title of the post really says it all. Mack is briefly discussed about 3/4 of the way in.

Here’s the podcast: http://railsenvy.com/assets/2008/3/12/Podcast_22.mp3

Make sure to checkout their other podcasts, RailsEnvy.com Those guys do a great job, and their quite funny to listen to as well.

Other Mack Sitings:

http://www.nomedojogo.com/2008/03/13/rails-podcast-brasil-episodio-9/ – This appears to be the RailsEnvy podcast in Portuguese, but since I don’t speak Portuguese, so I can’t really say.

http://blog.libinpan.com/2008/03/13/links-for-2008-03-13/

People linking to Mack

Mark Bates — Fri, 29 Feb 2008 21:15:12 +0000

Mack has only been around for a few days, and people are already started to download it and link to. Yippie!

http://maraby.org/post/27611841

http://sness.blogspot.com/2008/02/mack.html

http://anarchaia.org/archive/2008/02/28.html

http://yogindar.blogspot.com/2008/02/ruby-web-application-framework-mack.html