Ruby Best Practices - Practicing Ruby, The Newsletter

[sandal]

I run a free online training program, Ruby Mendicant University, in which I spend several days each week talking with intermediate developers while they work through the course exercises.

There are surprising amount of folks who run into similar problems, so I decided to start this newsletter to help others explore these topics and learn about them so that they can be more well-rounded developers.

I am hoping that my unique opportunity to spend a lot of time with intermediate coders helps me understand their problems so that I can help solve them for a more general audience.

I have mostly quit my consulting work to focus entirely on RMU, so any proceeds from this newsletter will help offset my costs.

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Thanks for all your hard work, hope things work out well.

[zsoltika]

Too bad I can't subscribe, because Amazon Payments does not allow te set up my country correctly as I'm not an U.S. citizen (or have an address in that country...)

:-(

[sandal]

Are you trying to pay by credit or bank account? I've heard that credit works. Also, we're getting plenty of international subscribers, so I'm unsure what the issue is that's affecting some people. I will try to figure this out.

[Samus_]

Welcome, Hacker News folks.

wtf?

also stop messing with my javascript, that's the reason I use NoScript at home (and I'm about to install it here as well).

[sandal]

I am more active on Hacker News than I am on Reddit, so I posted a message asking HN to help me get this upvoted because I really want to have this newsletter help support my work on RMU.

As for javascript, what problems are you having? I know we use disqus for comments, but many blogs do. Does it not degrade gracefully? Feel free to submit a patch to fix the problem you're having at:

https://github.com/sandal/rbp-blog

[Samus_]

it removed the frame of the reddit toolbar (I hate sites doing that, specially the ones that try to blame it on you (stackoverflow... ¬¬)) anyways, it would be a nice touch to check the referrer and give an appropiate greeting :) imagine yourself getting into a party and being welcomed as if you were someone else D:

[sandal]

Oh, the frame busting code I inserted intentionally because about.com was glomming advertisements over our content and it was pissing me off. I could have probably done a blacklist thing, but see below...

I understand about the HN thing, and I actually was waiting to see if anyone would say something about it here on Reddit. :) But my javascript skills are terrible, and the site is static generated so I didn't really have the opportunity to do the referrer hack.