From: ara.t.howard@...
Date: 2006-09-22T12:09:57+09:00
Subject: Re: [OT] Rejected Ruby book ideas by O'Reilly

On Fri, 22 Sep 2006, Joel VanderWerf wrote:

> Adelle Hartley wrote:
>> When I saw the title of this thread, I was expecting a funny list.
>
> 10. Ruby on Rails on Steroids
> 9.  O'Ruby!
> 8.  Goodbye Ruby Tuesday, Hello Ruby Saturday: Ruby Hacking in Your Spare 
> Time When Your Boss Just Doesn't Grok How Cool Continuations Can Be Sometimes
> 7.  How to Talk Ruby to a Parrot
> 6.  How to Talk Ruby like a Pirate
> 5.  The RUMP Stack: Ruby, UDP, Multics, and PostgreSQL
> 4.  Using Ruby for Air-traffic Control in 5 Minutes or Less!
> 3.  Duck Typing: A Keyboard Interface for Dynamic Waterfowl
> 2.  You Can Write Fortran in Ruby!
>
> and...........
>
> 1.  Who is This matz Person Anyway? (*)
>
> (*) That title was later accepted at Megadodo Publications, Ursa Minor Beta.

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