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.

I am reviewer for Brian Marick’s book Scripting for Testers. I wondered if it got cancelled, because the last post at reviewers mailing list was in July. Today I have red at Brian’s blog that

Scripting for Testers has been renamed Everyday Scripting in Ruby

and

Sadly, the scheduled ship date is a bit after Christmas. Since it would be sad if testers didn’t get the book under their tree, we’ve decided to delay the holiday.

I wonder how is he going to do that?

Programming Ruby: The Pragmatic Programmer’s Guide, Second Edition (Dave Thomas, Chad Fowler, Andy Hunt; The Pragmatic Programmers) – programiranje, Ruby (besplatna prva verzija).