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Here’s your chance to learn Ruby programming for free, at the comfort of your home and along with an online teacher.
This course is ideal for those of you who want to complement your skill-set with Ruby, but haven’t quite found the time to do so. There would be online lessons, exercises, quizzes and assignments all [...]

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Will Bunker founded the online dating service that became Match.com, the world’s largest personals site. Will designed the software and developed the hardware infrastructure for the site, which grew to 4.5 million monthly unique visitors and annualized subscription revenues of $14 million, outperforming Yahoo Personals and other competitors. In late 1999 they sold One-and-Only to [...]

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By Satoshi Asakawa
Satoshi Asakawa is a Japanese Ruby enthusiast, a former student and now an Asst. Teacher of the FORPC101 course.
Shoes is a cross-platform, tiny graphics and windowing toolkit for the Ruby programming language written by Why. You can find more information on Shoes here.
Objective: To build a teeny-weeny mp3 player.
Step 1: Let us first [...]

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Ruby’s popularity and usage is growing exponentially with each passing day. Don’t get left behind. Here’s your chance to learn Ruby programming for free, at the comfort of your home and along with an online teacher.
This course is ideal for those of you who want to complement your skill-set with Ruby, but haven’t quite found [...]

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Fabio Akita is a Brazilian Rails enthusiast, also known online as “AkitaOnRails”. He regularly write posts on his own blog and had published the very first book tailored for the Brazilian audience called “Repensando a Web com Rails”. He is now a full-time Ruby on Rails developer working as Brazil Rails Practice Manager for the [...]

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Making critical information available across the Internet has arguably been one of the most profound business enablers in the history of technology. It has meant expanded markets, increased productivity, and streamlined processes. Unfortunately, it has also meant a profound increase in operational risk. Vulnerabilities like command injection attacks result from inadequately designed or written Ruby [...]

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José Carlos Monteiro is a Portuguese Ruby enthusiast and a student of the FORPC101 course. He has over 10 years of experience in programming with languages such as C, C++, Delphi, Java, Perl, PHP. He is also familiar with coding Unix Shell Scripts and used to working with version control systems (CVS and Subversion). His [...]

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I am looking for ways to promote my Free Ruby eBook. I have come up with some ideas. Some zany, impractical and okay maybe a bit stupid.. but some are simple, fun and easy to do. Will you help me come up with even more? Any idea is acceptable …. this is just a fun [...]

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For the past two years, RubyLearning has been promoting the Ruby language world-wide, by conducting its Free Online Ruby Programming Course. 1000s of participants have either completed or are in the process of completing the course. Most Ruby course participants have a plethora of questions related to the language; opportunities in Ruby; Ruby’s future etc.
Satish [...]

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For the past two years, RubyLearning has been promoting the Ruby language world-wide, by conducting its Free Online Ruby Programming Course. 1000s of participants have either completed or are in the process of completing the course. Most Ruby course participants have a plethora of questions related to the language; opportunities in Ruby; Ruby’s future etc.
Satish [...]

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Darren Rowse, as usual, has come up with a lovely idea “Today is Blogger Appreciation Day [UNOFFICIAL]” - that certainly fosters the sense of community, which I love about blogging. In Darren’s words:
We’re in it together, blogging is about collaboration and together going further than we can by ourselves - so why not help another [...]

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