New on the stack

Sun, 05 Nov 2006 23:27:58 +0000

Some new items pushed onto the stack this weekend:

Topfunky's Peepcode tutorial on building RESTful Rails applications. I'm not digging some of the hackery required to make REST work in a world of browsers that support only GET and POST but I've resigned myself to covering my eyes and soldiering on. For $9 the tutorial seems well-worth it to bootstrap myself into building apps the way Rails 1.2 will likely intend them.
Eric Evans - Domain Driven Design. Two chapters in and I already like Evans pragmatic approach to design and the design process. I haven't read anything that raised my design game significantly for a few years, I've a feeling this book might.
Adlin & Pruitt - The Persona Lifecycle. My recent experiences have taught me again the problems of designing in the abstract. The persona method looks highly effective for ensuring that the customers requirements are firmly embedded into product behaviours.

It's not like the stack wasn't almost at buffer overrun levels but I felt the need to raise my game now while I have a breathing space.

Curiouser and Curiouser! on usability