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  1. Ruby Science on the Web and Updated to Rails 7

    We’ve updated Ruby Science, the reference for creating fantastic Rails applications, and it’s now available on the web in addition to EPUB and PDF.

    Chad Pytel
    October 19, 2023
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  2. Our books are now free

    We’re delighted to announced that our e-books are now free.

    Matt Jankowski
    March 5, 2019
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  3. Little Library

    A hackathon project to make a virtual bookshelf.

    Eric Bailey
    January 14, 2019
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  4. Opensourcing 'Write Yourself A Roguelike'

    Our book on Ruby roguelike development is going opensource.

    Bruno Antunes
    November 27, 2017
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  5. Announcing Domain Name Sanity

    Learn to make domains and TLS certificates predictable and debuggable, while grasping their core concepts with plenty of examples.

    Edward Loveall
    August 5, 2016
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  6. Release 1.0 of our “Maintaining Open Source Projects” Book

    Learn software development techniques from open source software maintainers.

    Tute Costa
    July 6, 2016
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  7. Maintaining Open Source Projects: Versioning and Releasing

    On release frequency and version numbers for your open source library.

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    February 2, 2016
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  8. Design for the Web: Semantic Markup and Positioning

    Announcing new chapters for our book Design for the Web.

    Joshua Ogle
    May 29, 2015
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  9. Maintaining Open Source Projects: Licenses

    We’re pleased to announce a new chapter on Licenses in our Maintaining Open Source Projects book.

    Tute Costa
    May 1, 2015
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  10. Maintaining Open Source Projects: Documentation

    We’re pleased to announce a new chapter on documentation in our Maintaining Open Source Projects book.

    Tute Costa
    April 24, 2015
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