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h3. Licensing -The "articles":/archives/ and all the content published on this web site is licensed under the _Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0 United States License_. For other uses, please "contact us":/contact/. +The "articles":/archives/ and all the content published on this web site is licensed under the _Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0 Unported License_. For other uses, please contact us. -<a rel="license" href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/us/"><img alt="Creative Commons License" src="http://i.creativecommons.org/l/by-nc-nd/3.0/us/88x31.png" /></a> +<a rel="license" href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/"><img alt="Creative Commons License" src="http://i.creativecommons.org/l/by-nc-nd/3.0/88x31.png" /></a> The source code of this web site, such as its layout, SASS/CSS stylesheets, custom rake tasks and code is licensed under the terms of the <em><a href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/MIT/">MIT License</a></em> and it is available on "GitHub":http://github.com/h3rald/h3rald.
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h3. Licensing -The "articles":/archives/ and all the content published on this web site is licensed under the _Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0 United States License_. For other uses, please "contact us":/contact/. +The "articles":/archives/ and all the content published on this web site is licensed under the _Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0 Unported License_. For other uses, please "contact us":/contact/. -<a rel="license" href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/us/"><img alt="Creative Commons License" src="http://i.creativecommons.org/l/by-nc-nd/3.0/us/88x31.png" /></a> +<a rel="license" href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/"><img alt="Creative Commons License" src="http://i.creativecommons.org/l/by-nc-nd/3.0/88x31.png" /></a> The source code of this web site, such as its layout, SASS/CSS stylesheets, custom rake tasks and code is licensed under the terms of the <em><a href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/MIT/">MIT License</a></em> and it is available on "GitHub":http://github.com/h3rald/h3rald.

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The following ruby libraries (gems) are used to compile this web site: * *"nanoc":http://rubygems.org/gems/nanoc*, to generate the entire web site -* *"extlib":http://rubygems.org/gems/extlib*, in some custom Rake tasks -* *"bb-ruby":http://rubygems.org/gems/bb-ruby*, for the BBCode filter -* *"builder":http://rubygems.org/gems/builder/*, to create RSS and ATOM feeds -* *"haml":http://rubygems.org/gems/haml/*, for the SASS filter -* *"coderay":http://rubygems.org/gems/coderay/*, for syntax highlighting -* *"glyph":http://rubygems.org/gems/glyph*, for the Glyph filter +* *"Extlib":http://rubygems.org/gems/extlib*, in some custom Rake tasks +* *"BB-Ruby":http://rubygems.org/gems/bb-ruby*, for the BBCode filter +* *"Builder":http://rubygems.org/gems/builder/*, to create RSS and ATOM feeds +* *"Haml":http://rubygems.org/gems/haml/*, for the SASS filter +* *"CodeRay":http://rubygems.org/gems/coderay/*, for syntax highlighting +* *"RedCloth":http://rubygems.org/gems/redcloth/*, for Textile support +* *"BlueCloth":http://rubygems.org/gems/bluecloth/*, for Markdown support +* *"Glyph":http://rubygems.org/gems/glyph*, for the Glyph filter Additionally, the following gems were necessary to migrate from the previous version of this web site, powered by "Typo":http://www.typosphere.org: -* *"mysql":http://rubyforge.org/projects/mysql/* -* *"sequel":http://rubyforge.org/projects/sequel/* +* *"MySQL":http://rubyforge.org/projects/mysql/* +* *"Sequel":http://rubyforge.org/projects/sequel/* h3. Credits
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@@ -13,7 +13,7 @@ When I was offered to review this book, I was a bit skeptical: a book on _management_? I normally read and review books on programming and software development methodologies. However, I work as a Documentation Technical Leader, and while I don't technically _manage_ a whole team yet (damn economic crisis!), someday I may end up doing just that, so I gave "Reflections on Management":http://www.informit.com/store/product.aspx?isbn=032171153X a try.

_It's short, after all, I'll probably read it in a couple of weeks and move on_ &mdash; I thought. Well, beware of short books: I thought exactly the same thing when I picked up "The Elements of Style":http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Elements_of_Style, and it still follows me around everywhere, so that I can re-read bits of it whenever I need to. :extended_intro: | - Watt S. Humphrey's latest (and last, sadly) masterpiece is one those books you always end up carrying around in your pocket (or stored in your favorite ebook reader). It's a short but very dense collection of tips and tricks to succeed as a leader and a manager &mdash; of _anything_: <q>Your Software Projects, Your Teams, Your Boss, and Yourself</q>, as the book subtitle says. It doesn't "just" help forging great managers and leaders, it also explains, with practical examples and no-nonsense explanations, how to deal with those annoying people in suits who constantly keep asking you for impossible things... + This short but dense masterpiece by Watts S. Humphrey and William R. Thomas is one those books you always end up carrying around in your pocket (or stored in your favorite ebook reader). It's a short but very dense collection of tips and tricks to succeed as a leader and a manager &mdash; of _anything_: <q>Your Software Projects, Your Teams, Your Boss, and Yourself</q>, as the book subtitle says. It doesn't "just" help forging great managers and leaders, it also explains, with practical examples and no-nonsense explanations, how to deal with those annoying people in suits who constantly keep asking you for impossible things... ----- $[document.intro] &:[title|Reflections on Management]

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=>[http://www.sei.cmu.edu/watts/index.cfm?WT.ac=watts|&[author]] was a true legend in Software Engineering, he's often referred to as _The Father of Software Quality_. He worked at IBM for 27 years and eventually became Vice President of Technical Development. In the 80s, he arrived at the =>[http://www.sei.cmu.edu/|Software Engineering Institute (SEI)] where he developed some key development processes of our time: the Software Capability Maturity Model (CMM), the Personal Software Process (PSP), and the Team Software Process (TSP). He received many awards, culminating with the _National Medal of Technology_ in 2005. -He wrote several books mainly on software development and managing software projects through his PSP and TSP methodologies. _\.&[title] &mdash; How to Manage Your Software Projects, Your Teams, Your Boss, and Yourself_ was his last book, published in 2010, the year he =>[http://www.sei.cmu.edu/newsitems/Humphrey_obituary.cfm|died]. +He wrote several books focusing mainly on software development and managing software projects through his PSP and TSP methodologies. _\.&[title] &mdash; How to Manage Your Software Projects, Your Teams, Your Boss, and Yourself_ was the last book published while he was alive. =>[http://www.informit.com/title/0321624505|Leadership, Teamwork, and Trust: Building a Competitive Software Capability], co-authored with James W. Over, was published posthumously. + +&[author] =>[http://www.sei.cmu.edu/newsitems/Humphrey_obituary.cfm|died] on October 28, 2010. ] textile_section[ @title[Structure and Organization]
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- "H3RALD Web Site":/h3rald/ := This very web site, in its 8th incarnation. H3RALD.com has been operative since 2004 and through the years its backend changed from being pure vanilla HTML, to server-side PHP (Prado and CakePHP) to Ruby (Rails, Nanoc). - "Glyph":/glyph/ := A _Rapid Document Authoring Framework_ written in Ruby that can be used to create and manage books and articles. +- "Ruby Compendium":/ruby-compendium/ := A free book aiming to help beginners learn about Ruby. It doesn't focus on learning the language, but rather on its vast ecosystem and freely available resources. - "RawLine":/rawline/ := Rawline is a Ruby library which provides a subset of the functionality of the C Readline library. Being implemented in pure Ruby, it gives Ruby developers much more control over key bindings and word completion. - "Concatenative":/concatenative/ := A Ruby DSL for concatenative programming. Although quite slow if compared to other concatenative languages like Factor, it implements all the most common concatenative combinator and makes it possible to use Ruby objects in a concatenative way. - "Herald Vim Color Scheme":/herald-vim-color-scheme/ := A dark, easy-to-read color scheme for the Vim text editor. It can be used with 255, 16 or 8 colors.
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+----- +permalink: ruby-compendium +filters_pre: +- erb +- redcloth +title: "Project: Ruby Compendium" +type: project +github: ruby-compendium +links: +- "Download": https://github.com/h3rald/ruby-compendium/downloads +- "Source": https://github.com/h3rald/ruby-compendium +- "Tracking": http://github.com/h3rald/ruby-compendium/issues +status: Active +version: 0.1.1 +----- + +<%= render 'project_data', :tag => 'ruby-compendium' %> + +The _Ruby Compendium_ is a free book aiming to help beginners learn about Ruby. It doesn't focus on learning the language, but rather on its vast ecosystem and freely available resources. + +h3. License + +This book was written by Fabio Cevasco and it is licensed under a "Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License":http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/. + +h3. Contributing + +This book was authored using "Glyph":http://www.h3rald.com/glyph and its source code is hosted on "Github":http://github.com/h3rald/ruby-compendium. Contributions are very welcome! Feel free to contact the author and/or fork the repository. + +<%= render 'project_updates', :tag => 'ruby-compendium' %>