Is it ten past eight already?
What’s Hot
Top-Ten lists are passé—ours goes to 11. These are the top titles that folks are interested in currently, along with their rank from last month. This is based solely on direct sales from our online store.
| 1^ | NEW | Agile Web Development with Rails 4th Edition |
| 2^ | NEW | iPad Programming |
| 3^ | NEW | Rails Test Prescriptions |
| 4v | 1 | Seven Languages in Seven Weeks |
| 5^ | NEW | Driving Technical Change |
| 6^ | NEW | Cocoa Programming |
| 7v | 3 | The RSpec Book |
| 8 | 8 | iPhone SDK Development |
| 9v | 2 | Hello, Android |
| 10v | 4 | Agile Web Development with Rails, Third Edition |
| 11 | 11 | Programming Ruby 1.9 |
Sips from the Twitter Stream
Tweets from Kent Beck, Tim Bray, Chris Breen, Mike Clark, Cory Doctorow, John Dvorak, Chris Espinosa, Scott Hanselman, David Heinemeier Hansson, Penn Jillette, Mitch Kapor, Steven Levy, David Pogue, Jay Rosen, Robert Scoble, Nate Silver, Larry Tesler, Dave Thomas, Nick Turner, Jon Udell, Dean Wampler, Wil Wheaton, Tom Waits, Steve Wozniak, and others.
Epigrams and Ephemera
Doing metaprogramming in Java. Fighting generics. Feeling excited but slightly sordid. — @timbray
maybe the reason for the devaluation of reputation is as much over-supply as it is under-demand — @kentbeck
since nobody can agree on singleton vs eigenclass vs metaclass, i propose we call it simpleton (it has a very narrow view of the world) — @deanwampler
We Do iPad
Reading a #pragpub on the #iPad. Wished that #pandora could be playing in the background. — @sigsegv
Our minds put new things in old categories. So iPad is a color backlit Kindle/Big iPod Touch/Newton sans writing/Alan Kay’s Dynabook/etc.#in — @nomodes
Loving reading the latest issue of the PragPub magazine on the iPad, just grab the ePub and sync to iBooks, @pragprog — @_DavidSmith
If Titanium from http://www.appcelerator.com/ becomes collateral damage in Apple’s war on flash, I’ll help paint the picketing signs. — @dhh
Very cool. iPad Voiceover works with our epubs, reading them aloud. — @pragdave
It is clear that Apple is making the most interesting moves in the industry now. I can’t see a way anyone tears away mindshare from them. — @Scobleizer
No one was writing about the iPad so I thought I’d say something. http://bit.ly/c8LqOZ — @stevenjayl
Scary Stuff
When corporations weaponize copyright to use against civilians, they use artists as human shields #debill — @doctorow
Apparently the #earthquake was upgraded to a 7.2, but I’m still seeing a 6.9 from the Russian judge. — @wilw
The wild parrots of Cupertino just came screaming through our parking lot. — @cdespinosa
Brief Dialog
@pragdave No opds for PragPub yet? — @TrevorBramble
@TrevorBramble pragpub.com/magazines.opds — @pragdave
Need to Know
In Claradon, Texas, it's illegal to dust any public building with a feather duster. — @tomwaits
This article in Apr. PragPub http://bit.ly/cat6kt articulates my frustrations with the Rails eco-system lately. Seaside is *slightly* better — @futuremint
It’s nuts that #JSON doesn’t define a literal syntax for dates and times. Every time I run into that, I want to lie down and take a nap. — @judell
I currently have a world-record 85 Microsoft EXCEL files open at the same time. — @fivethirtyeight
Many readers on the Internet are not so bright, so be sure to type s-l-o-w-l-y. — @FakeAPStylebook
@shiubox it’s a mispronunciation—my name is Dvorak NOT Dvo?ák. Note the difference. The two are pronounced differently. Pay attention. — @THErealDVORAK
Psyched that @pragprog has their monthly PragPub magazine in HTML format! http://bit.ly/cqVr5X Catching up on last month’s javascript content — @ben_anderson
Footnote: Pungle was passed down to me by my mother and part of everyday speech. I’ve used it for years and every editor has queried it. — @BodyofBreen
Sufis say: “No answer is also an answer.” Modern equivalent: “No tweet is also a tweet.” #nonduality #sufi — @mindheart
@WilliamShatner Hey Bil. Leonard here. Following you. Hope to see you soon — @TheRealNimoy
Reading tweets tagged #me less interesting than I'd expected. — @pragpub
Location, Location, Location
@SuperCoolTnicki you want me to tweet loud to see if anyone’s in downtown la? — @shanselman
“By being everywhere, yet in no exact place, WikiLeaks is, in effect, beyond the reach of any institution or government.” http://jr.ly/yijk — @jayrosen_nyu
Deep Thoughts
Some publishers need Amazon & Apple because publishers have no relationship with their readers. But… — @pragdave
…Amazon and Apple are _why_ some publishers have no relationship with their readers. Chicken, meet egg. — @pragdave
I saw Groundhog Day on cable again. Ironically, it was exactly the same as last time. — @mkapor
MTV has moved the air date for my “Cribs.” Maybe they figured out that easter is more traditionally basketball than Atheist magicians. — @pennjillette
Is it the end of a decade? Doesn’t feel like it. 2010 just feels like its going to be ten past eight. — @GarlicT
segway sundays can’t be beat — @woz
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