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Today, social networking, and user-generated content web sites are among the most popular sites on the Internet getting millions of hits every day. Sites like MySpace, Facebook, Flickr, and Google Apps allow users to share user-generated content a

Posted: Mar. 28, 2008 03:47 AM

Online Rails Development with Heroku

Heroku is a web application that provides a complete environment for writing Ruby on Rails powered web applications. With Heroku you get both a development environment and a hosting platform. Each application that you create with Heroku is also ass

Posted: Mar. 17, 2008 01:17 AM

Three Great Books for Learning and Mastering Ruby on Rails

I tend to read a lot of technical books. My current passion is with the Ruby programming language and the Rails web application framework which is built on top of the Ruby language. I’m also a published technical author myself. The book that

Posted: Mar. 9, 2008 03:47 AM

The Java Phrasebook as a Teaching Tool

It has been suggested to me by several reviewers including this one at the Java Lobby that the Java Phrasebook which I wrote last year would make an excellent text book or companion to a text book for a course on Java programming. After thinking abo

Posted: Feb. 8, 2008 10:17 AM

Programming Languages : Use the best tool for the job

Over the weekend I finished reading the book The Rails Way. I actually enjoyed this book so much that I took the time to read it cover to cover. As good as this book was, it is not specifically the topic of this post. The last chapter of the book

Posted: Feb. 8, 2008 10:17 AM

What is RESTful Development?

This article is cross-posted from blog.timothyfisher.com . Recently, there has been a surge in popularity for a development pattern or technique known as RESTful development. Popular frameworks such as Ruby on Rails are fueling popularity of RE

Posted: Feb. 5, 2008 10:42 PM

Ruby on Rails Bible Coming Soon!!!

My next book will be coming in early spring, most likely May, 2008 from Wiley. The book is the Ruby on Rails Bible. The book covers the Rails framework in detail providing an overview of the Ruby programming language, an overview of Rails, detailed

Posted: Jan. 16, 2008 02:40 PM

My new book; the Java Phrasebook

My new book, the Java Phrasebook from Sams Publishing provides a great concise guide to more than 100 customizable code snippetsso you can readily code functional Java in just about any situation. The Java Phrasebook gives you the code phrases you n

Posted: Nov. 21, 2006 03:30 PM

Check out my new expanded blog...

Visit my new blog at blog.timothyfisher.com

Posted: Dec. 22, 2005 01:55 PM

Java, Ruby, and Rails...

Another Java developer who has had interest sparked by Ruby and Rails.

Posted: Oct. 26, 2005 01:19 PM

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