The Ruby Study Notes eBook has been downloaded over 14500 times. For a long time there was a constant request of creating the Ruby Study Notes in print form and finally with the help of Lulu.com, I did it!

With 1000s of participants at the Free Online Ruby Programming Course, many being from countries where the internet is painfully slow or those who do not have a continuous access to the internet; a printed book is always convenient. The printed book is reasonably priced and I sincerely hope that it becomes an asset to all those just starting to learn the Ruby programming language.

It was fun being interviewed by FiveRuns Blog. FiveRuns exists for the express purpose of delivering affordable and radically simplified tools for monitoring applications and their supporting infrastructure with a focus on Ruby on Rails.

Every Friday, FiveRuns interviews Ruby/Rails enthusiasts and it was an honor to be amongst luminaries such as Chad Fowler, Peter Cooper, Pat Eyler to name a few.

Sunil Kelkar is an Indian Rails enthusiast and has been working with Rails for the last two years. With the number of Rails based projects booming in India, Sunil decided to pass on his Rails experience to would-be Rails enthusiasts by offering a Free Online Introductory ROR Course. This course starts from 12th April 2008 and going by Rails popularity, I am sure 100s would join.

I am helping him set up the course using Moodle software, based on my experience with the same, for my Ruby Programming course.

Sunil, my best wishes for the course.

Jimmy Atkinson the founder of WHDb has published a feature article, “Learn Programming Online, For Free“. In this article, they have listed a total of 77 free open course-ware collections that teach Ajax, C++, PHP, Ruby, and many more Web programming languages.

Kathryn Barrett reports that this month marks Ruby’s 15th birthday. Yukihiro “Matz” Matsumoto–creator of Ruby confirmed that Ruby was conceptualized and named on Feb. 24, 1993. Mark your calendars. While this doesn’t yet qualify Ruby as an old-timer among programming languages, it’s a good indication that it’s here to stay and probably doesn’t deserve to be called a newcomer any more.