I thought this email was kinda funny (from the Pragmatic Bookshelf) and wanted to share it. This is the *one* book you must have in the trenches of a Ruby VS Java flame war.
I love how the first paragraph suggests that Java prevents your team form being productive, is inflexible, hard to maintain and is not the best tool for the job. I'm not saying those things *are* or *are not* true; I'm just saying I think it's funny to sell a book as interested in tearing down Java as it is building up Ruby. BTW, I don't use Java or Ruby. -------- Forwarded Message -------- On a development team, you want to be productive. You want to write flexible, maintainable web applications using the best technology for the job. But how can you justify the move away from established platforms such as JEE? Java developers often know that better languages and environments are out there, but can't always communicate the benefits to their management chain. "From Java to Ruby" has the answers, and it expresses them in a language that'll help persuade managers and executives who've seen it all. Bruce tells us, "This book fills a vacuum. If this programmer-led revolution is to advance into the enterprise, we must learn how to express how the technical advantages of Ruby help solve business problems in ways that Java can't. After interviewing customers, visionaries, and Ruby programmers for this book I am convinced that Ruby represents a fundamental advancement over Java." Most books talk about the benefits of technology, but risk, skills, and fitness for purpose are even more important. Other books cannot overcome the most basic management objection: risk. But Bruce attacks user objections head on, in language friendly to both developers and managers. Readers and reviewers have already successfully applied the ideas in this book to real-word problems and projects. With this book in hand, you can too. -- Gabriel Gunderson http://gundy.org /* PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net Unsubscribe: http://plug.org/mailman/options/plug Don't fear the penguin. */
