Željko Filipin's Blog on Software and Testing

I was reviewer for Everyday Scripting with Ruby For Teams, Testers, and You by Brian Marick. Over two months ago I received an e-mail from Pragmatic Programmers saying that if I send them my mailing address they would send me a free copy. I replied with my mailing address, but the book did not arrive.

Two weeks ago I sent them a reminder. No reply.

There is a thread at wtr-general about the book and I asked if anybody had a similar experience. I thought that maybe there is a problem because I am from Europe. I got one reply. George from UK received his book two months ago.

Today I got e-mail from Pragmatic Programmers. They are looking into the problem, and they have sent me a PDF copy in the meantime.

There is even text “Prepared exclusively for Zeljko Filipin” at the bottom of each page. I am sure that it is there not only to make feel exclusive, but they got me smiling whenever I notice it.

Chapters that I reviewed were great and I look forward to reading the book.

Don’t you just love bugs?

Steps to reproduce:

1. open Internet Explorer 7
2. go to any page (required only if blank page opens when IE7 starts)
3. press Ctrl+ (increases size of text and images)
4. open another tab
5. go back to first tab
6. text is scrambled

Not reproducible every time, try it several times, and it should reproduce.