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   Learn Enough HTML to Be Dangerous Screencasts(news.learnenough.com)

   1 points by mhartl 10y ago|0 comments
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   Screencast for Learn Enough Action Cable to Be Dangerous(news.learnenough.com)

   1 points by mhartl 10y ago|0 comments
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   by mhartl 10y ago

   The link is to the free online HTML tutorial, which deploys a live website in the first section and ties everything together in a way you haven't seen before. The ebook version is around 130 pages and is available for purchase. For mor
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   Learn Enough HTML to Be Dangerous(learnenough.com)

   4 points by mhartl 10y ago|1 comments
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   by mhartl 10y ago

   Link is to the free online version. Announcement post is here: http://news.learnenough.com/learn-enough-action-cable Enjoy!
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   Learn Enough Action Cable to Be Dangerous(learnenough.com)

   4 points by mhartl 10y ago|1 comments
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   by mhartl 10y ago

   I'm planning to be around today in case anyone has any questions. Thanks for the support!
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   Launch of the new Rails Tutorial screencats(news.learnenough.com)

   1 points by mhartl 10y ago|1 comments
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   by mhartl 10y ago

   Next thing you know we'll be buying soda in two-liter bottles and measuring our pills in milligrams.
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    by mhartl 10y ago

    Argh. Too late to edit, but: that downloading -> than downloading
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    by mhartl 10y ago

    I'm sorry you are being downvoted for merely quoting PG. I know, right? And I'm not even endorsing PG's view! Just putting it out there for discussion.
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    by mhartl 10y ago

    Given there is no such thing as "poor taste" You might be interested in the contrary view, expressed by Paul Graham in "Taste for Makers" [1]: Saying that taste is just personal preference is a good way to prevent disp
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    by mhartl 10y ago

    Cloud9 has been a great partner to the Rails Tutorial, with their custom Rails Tutorial workspace allowing readers to spin up quickly at the beginning, while also maintaining state if they need to take a break. It's also enormously les
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    by mhartl 10y ago

    The book itself is here: http://railstutorial.org/book The links in the announcement include a 20% launch discount, expiring tonight at midnight PDT.
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    Rails 5 edition of the Ruby on Rails Tutorial book(news.learnenough.com)

    2 points by mhartl 10y ago|1 comments
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    by mhartl 10y ago

    Looks like now's a good time to mention that the Ruby on Rails Tutorial book has already been updated for Rails 5: http://railstutorial.org/book Sales actually just launched on Tuesday (announcement here: https:&#x2
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    by mhartl 10y ago

    I submitted a link directly to the free online version of the Ruby on Rails Tutorial , but to find out more about the new edition (and to get a 20% launch discount) see the news post here: https://news.learnenough.com/rails
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    The Ruby on Rails Tutorial book, updated for Rails 5(railstutorial.org)

    4 points by mhartl 10y ago|1 comments
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    by mhartl 10y ago

    What happens if someone is fired? Surely they wouldn't have to exercise their options then, but it also seems ridiculous that they would lose them.
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    by mhartl 10y ago

    This story is a good hacker litmus test. If you can appreciate why installing Windows 95 on an Apple Watch is awesome, you're probably a hacker; if not, definitely not.
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    Video Screencasts for Learn Enough Git to Be Dangerous(news.learnenough.com)

    2 points by mhartl 11y ago|0 comments
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    Video Screencasts for Learn Enough Text Editor to Be Dangerous(news.railstutorial.org)

    3 points by mhartl 11y ago|0 comments
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    Video Screencasts for Learn Enough Command Line to Be Dangerous(news.railstutorial.org)

    4 points by mhartl 11y ago|0 comments
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    by mhartl 11y ago

    Thanks for the heads-up. We'll look into ways to speed things up in future releases.
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    by mhartl 11y ago

    Randall is pretty chill about people using xkcd strips as long as you aren't selling them commercially: https://xkcd.com/license.html I do offer ebook sales, but of course I'm not selling the individual strips the
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    by mhartl 11y ago

    What made you switch from Python to Ruby? Rails. In Python-land, Django hadn't won yet. (My first startup used a half-baked framework I wrote myself on top of Zope. I shudder at the memory.) Also your book set me on my way with Ruby
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    by mhartl 11y ago

    Thanks for the note. Softcover is absolutely amazing for my purposes, but at this point we think the educational market is more promising than the market for self-publishing tools, so that's what we're focusing on now. This was al
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    by mhartl 11y ago

    I'm better known nowadays as a Rubyist, but in fact Python was the first language I really loved, and I have over 100K lines of Python under my belt from my Ph.D. research and my first startup. Our planned intro sequence includes Lear
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    by mhartl 11y ago

    Thanks! Glad to hear it. :-)
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    by mhartl 11y ago

    What you're seeing is the difference between trademarks™ and registered trademarks®. The USPTO lists the latter but not the former. You don't actually have to register a trademark in order to use it, but it's usually a good