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hazal

3/22/2007 3:48:00 PM

Hello everybody,

i start to learn Ruby . i NEED

"sams teach yourself RUBY in 21 days" book.

can you give me any link to get it by downloading pdf format.

thank you

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Phillip Gawlowski

3/22/2007 3:54:00 PM

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hazal wrote:
> Hello everybody,
>
> i start to learn Ruby . i NEED
>
> "sams teach yourself RUBY in 21 days" book.
>
> can you give me any link to get it by downloading pdf format.
>
> thank you
>
http://www.ebookmall.com/ebooks/sams-teach-yourself-ruby-in-21-days-slagell-...

Not free, though, and found after a quick Google query.

--
Phillip "CynicalRyan" Gawlowski

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The number of items on a project's to-do list always grows or remains
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Kyle Schmitt

3/22/2007 3:56:00 PM

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Umm. No.
No.
And may I repeat no.
Someone wrote that and decided not to release it for free. That's a
valid choice, and should be respected and supported. Your lack of
will, or funds, to get the legal version of the book don't matter.

Now all that aside, you can learn ruby very nicely from the pragmatic
programmers guide (available legally, for free, online), and the
poignent guide to ruby (also available, legally, for free).

Use google. It's your friend. It will find those guides for you, and
also find plenty of good examples.

And don't ask people to participate in theft like that.

--Kyle

pat eyler

3/22/2007 3:57:00 PM

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On 3/22/07, hazal <niyazi.ates@superonline.com> wrote:
> Hello everybody,
>
> i start to learn Ruby . i NEED
>
> "sams teach yourself RUBY in 21 days" book.
>
> can you give me any link to get it by downloading pdf format.

1) this book is not available under a legitimate free download
2) this book is dated, and other books would make a better purchase.


>
> thank you
>
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>
>


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Josef 'Jupp' Schugt

3/22/2007 4:41:00 PM

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* Kyle Schmitt, 22.03.2007 16:56:
> And don't ask people to participate in theft like that.

I'd suggest not to use the term "theft" in this context because for
example in Germany to commit a theft ("Diebstahl") you need to take
away something physical (and movable) from someone else. This does
not mean that in Germany it is no crime to download the book but only
means that downloading it is a different kind of crime. I'd suggest
simply writing it "unethical and illegal acts like that".

Besides this I would suggest printed works because the have an
indisputable advantage compared to PDFs: You can read them without
displaying them on a computer. This means

a) You can read them where using a computer (not even a laptop) is
not a good idea.
b) You can have the book on your desktop and not covering valuable
room on you screen.

Suggestions for books:

- "Programming Ruby" von Dave Thomas et al.

- "Ruby Cookbook" by Carlson & Richardson

If you are into Rails perhaps also

- "Agile Web Development with Rails" by Hansson

Josef 'Jupp' Schugt
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Kyle Schmitt

3/22/2007 4:47:00 PM

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Really? What type of crime is it. Completely off topic, but it's interesting.

On 3/22/07, Josef 'Jupp' Schugt <jupp@gmx.de> wrote:
> * Kyle Schmitt, 22.03.2007 16:56:
> > And don't ask people to participate in theft like that.
>
> I'd suggest not to use the term "theft" in this context because for
> example in Germany to commit a theft ("Diebstahl") you need to take
> away something physical (and movable) from someone else. This does
> not mean that in Germany it is no crime to download the book but only
> means that downloading it is a different kind of crime. I'd suggest
> simply writing it "unethical and illegal acts like that".
>
> Besides this I would suggest printed works because the have an
> indisputable advantage compared to PDFs: You can read them without
> displaying them on a computer. This means
>
> a) You can read them where using a computer (not even a laptop) is
> not a good idea.
> b) You can have the book on your desktop and not covering valuable
> room on you screen.
>
> Suggestions for books:
>
> - "Programming Ruby" von Dave Thomas et al.
>
> - "Ruby Cookbook" by Carlson & Richardson
>
> If you are into Rails perhaps also
>
> - "Agile Web Development with Rails" by Hansson
>
> Josef 'Jupp' Schugt
> --
> Blog available at http://www.mynetcologne.de/~nc-schu...
> PGP key with id 6CC6574F available at http://wwwkeys.d...
>
>
>

Phillip Gawlowski

3/22/2007 5:08:00 PM

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Kyle Schmitt wrote:
> Really? What type of crime is it. Completely off topic, but it's
> interesting.

Actually, it's theft, too, just not in the shoplifting-sense.

The German term would be "Urheberrechtsverletzung" (copyright
infringement): unlicensed, and not explicitly exempt by law (§ 53 UrhG),
copying and distribution of a copyrighted work, and / or usage of such a
work.

This is covered in § 106 UrhG (Urheberrechtsgesetz: Copyright law).

Disclaimer: IANAL.

--
Phillip "CynicalRyan" Gawlowski

Rule of Open-Source Programming #15:

If you like it, let the author know. If you hate it, let the author
know why.

Phillip Gawlowski

3/22/2007 5:09:00 PM

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Tanner Burson wrote:
> On 3/22/07, Kyle Schmitt <kyleaschmitt@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> Really? What type of crime is it. Completely off topic, but it's
>> interesting.
>
>
> The same kind of crime it is in the United States I imagine, civil
> copyright
> infringement. This is getting way OT, but google for essays by Lawrence
> Lessig for a lot more information on the differences between theft and
> copyright infringement.


No, it can land you in a criminal court, additional to the civil branch
of the justice system.

(Yes, our RIAA and MPAA equivalents have gone crazy, too)

--
Phillip "CynicalRyan" Gawlowski

Rule of Open-Source Programming #15:

If you like it, let the author know. If you hate it, let the author
know why.

Chad Wilson

3/22/2007 5:34:00 PM

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I found the Poignant Guide difficult to read. I used to be a programmer
many moons ago, but only recently have tried to get back into the swing
of things. I am used to reading technical manuals. The way of
describing things in the Poignant Guide tended to confuse me, rather
than help.

But, I have enjoyed learning Ruby with the Pragmatic Programmer book, as
well as the on-line tutorials.

-w

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Chad Perrin

3/22/2007 5:39:00 PM

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On Fri, Mar 23, 2007 at 01:40:35AM +0900, Josef 'Jupp' Schugt wrote:
> * Kyle Schmitt, 22.03.2007 16:56:
> > And don't ask people to participate in theft like that.
>
> I'd suggest not to use the term "theft" in this context because for
> example in Germany to commit a theft ("Diebstahl") you need to take
> away something physical (and movable) from someone else. This does
> not mean that in Germany it is no crime to download the book but only
> means that downloading it is a different kind of crime. I'd suggest
> simply writing it "unethical and illegal acts like that".

It's not "theft" in the United States, either. It's "copyright
infringement". The law recognizes a distinct difference between "theft"
(depriving someone of something by taking it) and "infringement"
(violating a legally granted monopolistic privilege).

The book isn't closed on the subject of copyright infringement being
ethical, either. Let's just stick with calling it "infringement" or an
"illegal" act, and avoid the controversy -- unless you really want to
hear my views on a logically consistent system of ethics derived from
first principles as it relates to the concept of "intellectual
property".

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Chad Perrin

3/22/2007 5:42:00 PM

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On Fri, Mar 23, 2007 at 02:09:26AM +0900, Phillip Gawlowski wrote:
> Tanner Burson wrote:
> >On 3/22/07, Kyle Schmitt <kyleaschmitt@gmail.com> wrote:
> >>
> >>Really? What type of crime is it. Completely off topic, but it's
> >>interesting.
> >
> >
> >The same kind of crime it is in the United States I imagine, civil
> >copyright
> >infringement. This is getting way OT, but google for essays by Lawrence
> >Lessig for a lot more information on the differences between theft and
> >copyright infringement.
>
>
> No, it can land you in a criminal court, additional to the civil branch
> of the justice system.
>
> (Yes, our RIAA and MPAA equivalents have gone crazy, too)

In the US, you can end up in criminal court for activities related to
infringement, but not for the infringement itself. The terms of the
DMCA, for instance, can land you in criminal court for certain types of
circumvention of so-called "security" measures that were deemed at the
time (by a bunch of technically deficient legislators) to be indivisible
from copyright infringement.

It's getting pretty thick on Capitol Hill.

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