Getting Real: free 37signals book on building a successful webapp

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Post by clyfe » Sun, Nov 28, 2010, 11:57 AM UTC

Getting Real: free 37signals book on building a successful webapp
gettingreal.37signals.com

Re: Getting Real: free 37signals book on building a successful webapp

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Post by pedrokost » Sun, Nov 28, 2010, 2:20 PM UTC

This book was a very entertaining read. The chapters are one page long, which is perfect even if you only have 1 minute free.

Re: Getting Real: free 37signals book on building a successful webapp

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Post by indy » Sun, Nov 28, 2010, 3:22 PM UTC

Excellent book, although slightly surprising that the inventors of Ruby on Rails are using PHP to serve the content.

Re: Getting Real: free 37signals book on building a successful webapp

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Post by jasonfried » Sun, Nov 28, 2010, 3:58 PM UTC

indy wrote: post #3

Excellent book, although slightly surprising that the inventors of Ruby on Rails are using PHP to serve the content.

We used PHP to serve up a couple of includes. That tech was implemented before Rails was born. It works so there's no reason to change it.

Re: Getting Real: free 37signals book on building a successful webapp

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Post by dangrossman » Sun, Nov 28, 2010, 4:01 PM UTC

indy wrote: post #3

Excellent book, although slightly surprising that the inventors of Ruby on Rails are using PHP to serve the content.

At the time this book was written, 37Signals couldn't keep a Rails stack running for more than a few hours yet, according to that old rant by Zed Shaw.

Re: Getting Real: free 37signals book on building a successful webapp

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Post by iaskwhy » Sun, Nov 28, 2010, 4:33 PM UTC

Also know by myself as The Bible. Its new version, Rework, has been by the bed since it was released. Really inspiring book even if you don't agree with everything, it shows you a different view of lots of interesting topics in an easy to read way. Highly recommended.

Re: Getting Real: free 37signals book on building a successful webapp

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Post by clyfe » Sun, Nov 28, 2010, 4:55 PM UTC

indy wrote: post #3

Excellent book, although slightly surprising that the inventors of Ruby on Rails are using PHP to serve the content.

They used PHP in several places, mostly presentational pages, where the only thing needed were some "includes". Most of these today are replaced by brochure [1], but the legacy remains.

[1] https://github.com/sstephenson/brochure

Re: Getting Real: free 37signals book on building a successful webapp

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Post by tptacek » Sun, Nov 28, 2010, 5:19 PM UTC

dangrossman wrote: post #5

indy wrote: post #3

Excellent book, although slightly surprising that the inventors of Ruby on Rails are using PHP to serve the content.

At the time this book was written, 37Signals couldn't keep a Rails stack running for more than a few hours yet, according to that old rant by Zed Shaw.

When Zed Shaw wrote that rant 37signals already had thousands of customers for its Rails apps (plural).

Re: Getting Real: free 37signals book on building a successful webapp

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Post by Vojto » Sun, Nov 28, 2010, 5:42 PM UTC

And suddenly people realized they can sell software as a service.

Re: Getting Real: free 37signals book on building a successful webapp

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Post by indy » Sun, Nov 28, 2010, 5:50 PM UTC

jasonfried wrote: post #4

indy wrote: post #3

Excellent book, although slightly surprising that the inventors of Ruby on Rails are using PHP to serve the content.

We used PHP to serve up a couple of includes. That tech was implemented before Rails was born. It works so there's no reason to change it.

Thanks, I assumed it would have been for a pragmatic reason