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The Art of Lean Software...
Art of Lean Software Development
by Curt Hibbs, Steve Jewett, and Mike Sullivan
Other resources from O’Reilly Related titles Head First Software Beautiful Code Development Head First Design Patterns The Art of Agile Extreme Programming Development Pocket Guide Java Extreme NUnit Pocket Reference Programming JUnit Pocket Guide Cookbook™ oreilly.com oreilly.com is more than a complete catalog of O’Reilly books. You’ll also find links to news, events, articles, weblogs, sample chapters, and code examples. oreillynet.com is the essential portal for developers interested in open and emerging technologies, including new plat- forms, programming languages, and operating systems. Conferences O’Reilly brings diverse innovators together to nurture the ideas that spark revolutionary industries. We specialize in documenting the latest tools and systems, translating the innovator’s knowledge into useful skills for those in the trenches. Visit conferences.oreilly.com for our upcoming events. Safari Bookshelf (safari.oreilly.com) is the premier online reference library for programmers and IT professionals. Conduct searches across more than 1,000 books. Sub- scribers can zero in on
(2009)
Ruby on Rails: Up and Ru...
Up and Running
by Curt Hibbs and Bruce A. Tate
Chapter 1 CHAPTER 1 Zero to Sixty: Introducing Rails 1 Rails may just be the most important open source project to be introduced in the past 10 years. It’s promoted as one of the most productive web development frame- works of all time and is based on the increasingly important Ruby programming lan- guage. What has happened so far? • By December 2006, you’re likely to see more published books on Rails than any of Java’s single flagship frameworks, including JSF, Spring, or Hibernate. • The Rails framework has been downloaded at least 500,000 times in only its sec- ond year, as of May 2006. These statistics compare favorably with the most pop- ular open source frameworks in any language.* • The Rails community mailing lists get hundreds of notes a day, compared to dozens on the most popular web development frameworks in other languages. • The Rails framework has
(2006)
Rails: Up and Running
Up and Running
by Lance Carlson, Curt Hibbs, and Bruce A. Tate
CHAPTER 1 Zero to Sixty: Introducing Rails When we wrote the first version of this book, Rails was just starting to ramp up as a framework. Now, the exploding web development platform is working its way into the mainstream. Companies like Twitter have bet on Rails and won big, and others have tried Rails and crashed hard. You should be comfortable that you’re entering this eco- system not as a pioneer, but as part of a much greater wave that’s sweeping through the whole computing profession. If you read the first edition, you’ll notice that we’re not selling the framework quite so hard. In all honesty, we don’t have to. Let’s lay the basic foundation so we can get to work. Rails is a framework for building database-backed web applications. Based on the Ruby programming language, Rails is best for applications that need to be developed quickly without sacrificing a
(2008)
