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Getting Real: free 37signals book on building a successful webapp
- pedrokost 16y agoThis book was a very entertaining read. The chapters are one page long, which is perfect even if you only have 1 minute free.
- indy 16y agoExcellent book, although slightly surprising that the inventors of Ruby on Rails are using PHP to serve the content.
- jasonfried 16y agoWe 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.
- indy 16y agoThanks, I assumed it would have been for a pragmatic reason
- clyfe 16y agoThey 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 https://github.com/sstephenson/brochure
- dangrossman 16y agoAt 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.
- tptacek 16y agoWhen Zed Shaw wrote that rant 37signals already had thousands of customers for its Rails apps (plural).
- dangrossman 16y agoThat does not make his statement false. It said they were restarting servers all day to keep it running. Maybe they didn't feel the need to add their book to that maintenance mess. There's no reason to try to cover up the fragility of the early Rails web stack. That's in the past. It's much more stable today, with many more choices of software at all layers, than it was in 2006.
- tptacek 16y agoI think it's far-fatched to suggest that the "maintenance mess" of hosting static content with Rails alongside what were then the most demanding Rails apps deployed anywhere caused them to look to PHP. I also think you're being pointlessly snarky.
- iaskwhy 16y agoAlso 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.
- StavrosK 16y agoI've started reading it yesterday on my kindle (which made it really much easier to read), and I'm almost through it. It's two-three hours long, and it's a good read (it feels like short blog posts aggregated in a book). Is Getting Real that much different from it? I can't find it in epub format, sadly...
- rapidfireaim 16y agoGreat Books (getting real & rework), I like the kick-ass, cut the crap style of focusing what is important.
- fierarul 16y agoHaving it in Kindle format would have been nice (also, Instapaper needs some recursive option).
- Vojto 16y agoAnd suddenly people realized they can sell software as a service.
- quattrofan 16y agoSorry but Basecamp is utter crap.