Using JRuby by Charles Nutter released

Charles Oliver Nutter is one of those guys that helps provide a healthy dose of humility to average programmers like myself. The level of expertise and knowledge required, and the mastery of multiple languages that is necessary, to create something like JRuby is something I find mind-boggling.

Congrats to Headius for the book release and thanks for providing an impeccable example of programming excellence to aspire to.

Re: Using JRuby by Charles Nutter released

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Post by rst » Sat, Jan 29, 2011, 2:10 PM UTC

Excerpts and full TOC from the Pragmatic Programmers (the actual publisher) here: http://pragprog.com/titles/jruby/using-jruby

(Also, a direct order form for print or DRM-free ebooks.)

Re: Using JRuby by Charles Nutter released

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Post by telemachos » Sat, Jan 29, 2011, 2:46 PM UTC

bstar777 wrote: post #2

Why is orielly selling pragprog books?

From Pragprog's contact page[1]:

> Our paperback titles are distributed to retail bookstores by O’Reilly Media, and are stocked and shipped by Ingram Publisher Services. Please contact Ingram or O’Reilly to order. If you have any difficulty obtaining a paperback title, please email us at support@pragmaticprogrammer.com.

There must be some similar deal with NoStarch since their books also appear on O'Reilly's site.

That said, I still somehow wish the main link here were to Pragprog's page.

[1]: http://pragprog.com/contact

Re: Using JRuby by Charles Nutter released

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Post by pasbesoin » Sat, Jan 29, 2011, 4:17 PM UTC

telemachos wrote: post #6

bstar777 wrote: post #2

Why is orielly selling pragprog books?

From Pragprog's contact page[1]: > Our paperback titles are distributed to retail bookstores by O’Reilly Media, and are stocked and shipped by Ingram Publisher Services. Please contact Ingram or O’Reilly to order. If you have any difficulty obtaining a paperback title, please email us at support@pragmaticprogrammer.com. There must be some similar deal with NoStarch since their books also appear on O'Reilly's site. Th…

And it looks like this one has not landed in O'Reilly's Safari (not yet, at least).

Re: Using JRuby by Charles Nutter released

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Post by kfiekdlwdi » Sat, Jan 29, 2011, 6:07 PM UTC

There are several authors:

Using JRuby: Bringing Ruby to Java by Charles O Nutter, Thomas Enebo, Nick Sieger, Ola Bini, and Ian Dees

Re: Using JRuby by Charles Nutter released

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Post by headius » Sat, Jan 29, 2011, 6:23 PM UTC

I just wanted to make sure to point out I was just one of five authors on the book. The others were Tom Enebo, Nick Sieger, Ola Bini, and our fantastic lead author Ian Dees, without whom there would be no book at all. They deserve as much (or more) credit for the book as I do.

And thanks for the kind words :) I hope folks will enjoy the book and JRuby alike.

Re: Using JRuby by Charles Nutter released

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Post by jamesbritt » Sat, Jan 29, 2011, 7:00 PM UTC

adriand wrote: post #4

Charles Oliver Nutter is one of those guys that helps provide a healthy dose of humility to average programmers like myself. The level of expertise and knowledge required, and the mastery of multiple languages that is necessary, to create something like JRuby is something I find mind-boggling. Congrats to Headius for the book release and thanks for providing an impeccable example of programming excellence to aspire t…

Plus he's a genuinely good guy, a pleasure to be around. And I swear he never sleeps, given all that he gets done.