It seems like more and more I’m reading that the Pragmatic Programmer series of books is choice of geeks rather than the standard O’Reilly fare. Here’s an example:

While I start working on this project, I have two books that I’m going to be keeping handy, in both their print and PDF forms:

• Programming Ruby
• Agile Web Development with Rails

Both of these are titles released by the Pragmatic Programmer, which has taken over from O’Reilly as my main book source for this field. Their books are well written, edited, and most of all, the examples and methodology are focused on delivering a high density of knowledge in a minimum of space.

For what it’s worth, I haven’t been overly impressed with O’Reilly’s Python offerings. Instead I’ve become a fan of the Apress books instead. Beginning Python and Python Network Programming are two of my favorites.

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