From: "Nathaniel S. H. Brown" <nshb@...>
Date: 2006-03-13T02:55:52+09:00
Subject: Re: [ANN] Agile Web Developement with Rails in Italian

Anyone know of some other Italian websites in general or companies
(development firms, bookstores, etc) that either use Rails or offer it as a
service of some sort?

Kind regards,
Nathan.

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 Nathaniel S. H. Brown                           http://nshb.net 
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: David N. Welton [mailto:davidw@dedasys.com] 
> Sent: March 12, 2006 4:19 AM
> To: ruby-talk ML
> Subject: Re: [ANN] Agile Web Developement with Rails in Italian
> 
> Mc Osten wrote:
> > I have recently seen the italian version of "Agile Web Developement 
> > with Rails" in bookstores. It's italian title is 
> "Sviluppare applicazioni Web
> >   con Rails" (unfortunately the "agile" part got lost).
> 
> Yes, I saw that on http://www.libreriauniversitaria.it and 
> was surprised  at how quickly it came out in Italian.
> 
> > This is as far as I know the first book in italian that talks about 
> > Ruby (well, not really "Ruby", but at least about something closely 
> > related, and probably someone who gets in touch with Rails 
> will also learn Ruby).
> 
> I think Ruby's getting a lot of traction here in Italy... in 
> Padova, a few guys from the Java Users Group formed a Ruby 
> Users Group:-)
> 
> > Even if I do not really like Italian books (I just can't stand 
> > tranlation mistakes, poor editions -- compared with some US 
> ones ), I 
> > decided to buy it.
> 
> Do you know who did the translation?  Some of the guys at 
> Hoepli do pretty good work.
> 
> > Unfortunately a lot of people in my country do not read 
> english books. 
> > A technology that is not covered by some book in italian is quite 
> > often
> > ignored: that is why I salute with joy this new book.
> 
> Yes, hopefully it will make Rails more 'boss friendly' here, 
> although that will make it less of a competitive advantage 
> for those who 'get it':-)
> 
> --
> David N. Welton
> - http://www.dedasys.com/davidw/
> 
> Linux, Open Source Consulting
> - http://www.dedasys.com/
>