Archive for January, 2008

How to Be a Rockstar Freelancer Review

Wednesday, January 30th, 2008

Respected Freelance website FreelanceSwitch founders Cyan and Collis Ta’eed have written a book about Freelancing and made it available through self-publishing site Lulu. I picked up a paperback version and here I present my thoughts.

When in Rome, code as the Romans do

Friday, January 25th, 2008

No doubt most developers are in favour of coding standards, but something that has annoyed me of late is ‘coding baggage’. For example, former Visual Basic programmers using VB style in C#. Such style pollutes the purity of a language that has its own style for a particular reason.

Suggested books for learning Ruby on Rails

Thursday, January 3rd, 2008

I’ve been mainly a C#/ASP.NET developer over the last few years, but a recent interest in Ruby on Rails (RoR) has lead me to buy a few books to help me learn the framework. Here I present a list of books, in a particular order, that I recommend to anybody learning RoR.