Rejected Ruby book ideas by O'Reilly

Ruby
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Adelle Hartley wrote:

When I saw the title of this thread, I was expecting a funny list.
Yeah, so was I.

Hrm… No promises:
Generating Java Code With rDoclet
Ruby for OS/2 Users
Best of ruby-talk
Running with Ruby on Z/OS (by James McGovern)*
Fragile Web D. with CGI.rb
Generating Ruby Code with JSP
From Ruby to Perl

Hope that helps,
Devin

  • BTW, I just saw his website (I had forgotten the name of that arcane
    system), and get this: IT USES A TAG! Really. View Source. It’s
    classic.
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On 9/21/06, M. Edward (Ed) Borasky [email protected] wrote:

aw shucks … why not?
4. The Sound of One Duck Typing
3. Building a Static Web S. With Rails in Three Weeks
2. Inside The Commodore 64 Ruby Compiler

and of course, the number one rejected Ruby book idea:

  1. Why Perl, Python, PHP, Java, C#, Pike, Lua, Forth, COBOL, APL, Lisp,
    PL/I and Even Macro Assembler are Way Better Than Ruby
  1. ‘With Wrath Divine’: Blogging About Ruby Performance
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Devin M. wrote:

Generating Ruby Code with JSP
From Ruby to Perl

Hope that helps,
Devin

Yowza!!

44

On Fri, 2006-09-22 at 10:57 +0900, Devin M. wrote:

Generating Ruby Code with JSP
From Ruby to Perl

Device Driver Development with Ruby
eval.c in 24 hours
Advanced Ada for Ruby Developers

That’s all I got…

tom

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Adelle Hartley wrote:

When I saw the title of this thread, I was expecting a funny list.

  1. Ruby on Rails on Steroids
  2. O’Ruby!
  3. Goodbye Ruby Tuesday, Hello Ruby Saturday: Ruby Hacking in Your
    Spare Time When Your Boss Just Doesn’t Grok How Cool Continuations Can
    Be Sometimes
  4. How to Talk Ruby to a Parrot
  5. How to Talk Ruby like a Pirate
  6. The RUMP Stack: Ruby, UDP, Multics, and PostgreSQL
  7. Using Ruby for Air-traffic Control in 5 Minutes or Less!
  8. Duck Typing: A Keyboard Interface for Dynamic Waterfowl
  9. You Can Write Fortran in Ruby!

and…

  1. Who is This matz Person Anyway? (*)

(*) That title was later accepted at Megadodo Publications, Ursa Minor
Beta.

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On Fri, 22 Sep 2006, Joel VanderWerf wrote:

  1. Using Ruby for Air-traffic Control in 5 Minutes or Less!
  2. Duck Typing: A Keyboard Interface for Dynamic Waterfowl
  3. You Can Write Fortran in Ruby!

and…

  1. Who is This matz Person Anyway? (*)

(*) That title was later accepted at Megadodo Publications, Ursa Minor Beta.

  • The Sound Of One Block Calling

-a

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Wilson B. wrote:

Programming

  1. ‘With Wrath Divine’: Blogging About Ruby Performance
    If we pool our best ideas, maybe we can win the thinkgeek t-shirt
    contest.

http://www.thinkgeek.com/brain/customer_bounty.cgi

Just think, $250 to donate to rubycentral, and fame everlasting…

48

Joel VanderWerf wrote:

Yeah, me too … in fact, I was all set to create a couple …
5. Software Engineering Processes – How to Take the Fun out of Ruby

  1. ‘With Wrath Divine’: Blogging About Ruby Performance

If we pool our best ideas, maybe we can win the thinkgeek t-shirt contest.

http://www.thinkgeek.com/brain/customer_bounty.cgi

Just think, $250 to donate to rubycentral, and fame everlasting…

Yeah … I’m in … the #1 goes on the back or something
you have to be careful to use a number other than 10 – Letterman has
some intellectual property rights there. :slight_smile:

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On Fri, 22 Sep 2006, M. Edward (Ed) Borasky wrote:

Yeah, me too … in fact, I was all set to create a couple …

aw shucks … why not?

Top Ten Rejected Ruby Book Ideas

  1. Ruby for Forth Programmers

Hey! I resemble that remark!

– Matt
It’s not what I know that counts.
It’s what I can remember in time to use.

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51

Robert K. wrote:

On 21.09.2006 18:07, Berger, Daniel wrote:

Please, don’t try to guess why I’m asking - it won’t work.

You make it really sound like a spy plot. Can you at least promise to
solve the mystery at some future point in time (say less than a year
ahead)? Otherwise I might die from curiosity… :-))

LOL, well, we all die of something…

Hal

52

pat eyler wrote:

Man in Black and Vizzini?

I am not left-brained either!

Hal

53

On Sep 21, 2006, at 21:58, Joel VanderWerf wrote:

  1. The RUMP Stack: Ruby, UDP, Multics, and PostgreSQL

Send in a proposal.

Dave

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aw shucks … why not?

  1. Ruby, on a Bad Day: Why PHP Really is Ugly
  2. My Ruby Book was Rejected by ORA and all I Got was this Lousy Book
    Deal (with Sams)
  3. Ruby of the Rings: The Return of the Bling
  4. I am a Strange Loop Do…End
  5. Rescue Your Project!: Because Ruby Doesn’t Even Try
  6. Cap This!: Why Project Deployment Just Got Krunk
  7. Matz, Hansson, Stiff: a Stupendously Happy Marionet
  8. Capistrano Recipes
  9. The Zen of CRUD: And other Dirty Deeds of Many Silly Rubyists
  10. Ringside with Ruby: The Inside Scoop

OK, yeah… what can I say… I’m no humorist. :slight_smile:

M.T.

55

[email protected] wrote:

  • The Sound Of One Block Calling

Lambdas and Closures and Blocks, Oh My!

Perl’s Before Swine

Ruby, Don’t Take Your Code to Town

56

Dark A. wrote:

Berger, This is your boos.
You’re fired for prattling on on company time.
I’ll expect you out of the office by tomorrow !!!

–
Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.

Sounds harsh , till I read it came from boos.

Berger, this is your booze talking. What’s this we hear
about you quitting Qwest to work for O’Reilly? That’s a
blow to our fiber optic book publishing department.

Hal

57

Berger, Daniel wrote:

Hi all,

I’m curious how many people out there have had a Ruby book proposal
rejected by O’Reilly & Associates in the last three years, what your
subject was, when you proposed it, and the person whom you dealt with
(i.e. who specifically rejected your proposal).

This may seem a strange question - please humor me. You can email me
offlist if you prefer at djberg96 at n0spam at gmail dot com. Remove
the ‘at n0spam’.

Please don’t ask why I’m asking, either. I will say nothing at this
time. For now I’m just collecting information.

You think you can exploit this loophole in the Rules?
Ha! I will show you! There is nothing my simian minions
cannot achieve given sufficient oranges.

You may have dealt me an underhanded blow but the Puppetmaster
will be Asking Questions soon and your backers will start
disappearing. You will have to deal with Jones then and
there is a distinctive variability present whenever that
is the case.

In any event, the Yon Syndicate is onto you–if I were you,
I would watch my back. They have bought out all printer ink
cartridge manufacturers and are planning on inserting vampires
in them in their bid to seize control of the Eastern New Jersey
seagull mines.

Thanks,

Dan

This is not the communication you are looking at.

58

Hal F. wrote:

Robert K. wrote:

On 21.09.2006 18:07, Berger, Daniel wrote:

Please, don’t try to guess why I’m asking - it won’t work.

You make it really sound like a spy plot. Can you at least promise to
solve the mystery at some future point in time (say less than a year
ahead)? Otherwise I might die from curiosity… :-))

LOL, well, we all die of something…

Actually I won’t. And dying from curiosity is a slow and long death -
nothing you pick if you have the choice. :slight_smile:

robert
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  1. Ruby: Makes you try to be funny, very hard.
  2. Ruby: It will be funny - even if you fail.
  3. How to install Locomotive for Dummies
  4. Once a while, try else and rescue
  5. Do |you| begin you.rself.to => :understand the {|block| in.block =>
    :concept}; in the; end - I don’t.
  6. From the serious to the troll back to the sirous
  7. Web 3.0: \w Ruby on Rails on Apple’s iPhone
  8. How to create a Pragmatic Bookstore in 24 hours
  9. Symbols, something to understand
  10. Ilias L. Evaluation of Ruby-Talk
60

On 9/21/06, John G. [email protected] wrote:

Is it just me or does this seem like a discussion between the
Man in Black and Vizzini?

Oh, the sot has spoken! What happens to the OP is not truly your
concern. I will killfile him. And remember this, never forget
this: when I found you, you were so slobbering drunk,

why would that be a reason???

you couldn’t

code in Java!

—John

Robert

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