Pragdave

Riding the elevator up to my room in a Tokyo hotel, I glanced at a poster on the side wall and had to do a double take. Is it just me,...

$33,000 That’s how much was raised in charitable donations during the course of this weekend’s  RailsConf . It started with the Rails Guideb...

I’m continuing to play with Erlang. This week, I needed to write some code that extracts information from a bunch of source files. Part of t...

In our last thrilling installment, we used Erlang to fetch a book’s title and sales rank from Amazon. Now let’s extend this to fetch the dat...

One of the joys of playing at being a publisher is that I get to mess around with the technology in books as those books are getting written...