Learning Resources - Reposting a Link Dump

Very Ruby on Rails specific, but valuable nonetheless.

https://github.com/bf4/learning

http://railsapps.github.com/best-recommended-learning-rails-books-resources.html

http://everydayrails.com/2010/08/04/more-free-ruby-rails-books.html

http://playbook.thoughtbot.com/

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/194812/list-of-freely-available-programming-books

Program like a game developer

I really liked this article. Both because it is something I need to work on and it espouses the philosophies I believe in for how to work and make work fun.

Program like a Game Developer

Want to know Rails? Break it. Break it to pieces. Delete all of application.rb and see what happens. Create controllers that pull data from files instead of databases. Create views that initialize variables and contain huge swaths of business logic. Create models that contruct HTML and JavaScript. Tie it all together with duct tape and CoffeeScript. Test nothing, test everything. Build models that only contain one field. Build a model that houses every piece of data your application could possibly need.

This is an awesome quote. Break stuff. Don't overanalyze. Don't fuss about naming conventions and folder structure.