PragDave

R-Rails Gets R-Recognized

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No, I'm not stuttering. This evening, at the Software Development Jolt Awards at SD West in Santa Clara, Agile Web Development with Rails received the Jolt Award for best technical book, and Rails 1.0 won the Jolt for best web development tools.

I have to say, when I saw that both the book and the framework were up for awards, I was nervous, thinking that the judges might not want to vote for Rails in two separate categories. The fact that they did says a lot for the way Rails is now a mainstream player in the enterprise software world. It's clear the tipping point is behind us now, and we're a player.

Congratulations to DHH on his Jolt. And congratulations to the Pragmatic Bookshelf: this is our second Jolt Award in three years.

And, mostly, thanks to the Ruby community for providing the environment in which all this can happen. I'm really proud of us all.

Three New Pragmatic Studios

The Rails Studio is hitting the coasts next. Mike and I will be in Portland on April 10-12, and then in Boston May 11-12.

Meanwhile, Stu and Justin take the Ajax Studio to Chicago on April 25-27.

Maybe see you there.

Discuss This Book…

The announcement of Tobias’ Opinion software couldn’t have come at a better time. We were thinking about introducing some kind of discussion around our titles, where authors and readers could discuss issues and generally help each other out.

It’s a testament to the growing maturity of Rails that it took about 20 minutes to install and configure it on our shiny new server. So, to celebrate the release of 8 new recipes today, Chads Rails Recipes book is the first to have its own discussion group. It’ll be interesting to see how this works out.

ObjectView

Mark Collins-Cope from Ratio in the UK publishes a PDF magazine called ObjectView. The latest issue is chock-full-o-Ruby goodness, with articles by Amy Hoy and Obie Fernandez. It also has a reprise of Dijkstra’s famous Goto Considered Harmful letter to the ACM. Fifty pages, and it’s free…