Keith’s Blog

As of today, 30 O’Reilly titles are available as Ebook bundles and many will be in the Kindle Store later today:
As promised last month, O’Reilly has released 30 titles as DRM-free downloadable ebook bundles. The bundles include three ebook formats (EPUB, PDF, and Kindle-compatible Mobipocket) for a single price — at or below the book’s [...]

I just started reading the second edition of The Ruby Way by Hal Fulton and came across this gem:
We can’t avoid complexity, but we can push it around. We can bury it out of sight. This is the old “black box” principle at work; a black box performs a complex task, but it possesses simplicity [...]

I just spent a few minutes enjoying Mongrel and SVG::Graph while helping Rob visualize his Amazon Sales Rank for his book.
The code is available here with a running (maybe) example here. If all goes well, that should show you an SVG graph (thanks, Firefox) showing the changes in sales rank over time.
Rob’s code [...]

Rob Orsini’s Rails Cookbook has finally hit the store shelves. Go grab a copy because of how nice it makes you look:

More from Rob here.

I just started reading Crossing the Chasm by Geoffrey A. Moore and am enjoying it quite a bit. The book was given to me by a colleague who thought it was a must read because of the startup. The basic premise is this: there’s a huge chasm that separates early adopters of technologies, who [...]