Last week, I went to Eric Ivancich's awesome AACS talk on Using Ruby to Create Domain-Specific Languages here at the SRT Solutions office. I'd been lazy before, but that day I decided to finally pay my $20 AACS dues and become an official member. As more validation for the fact that I'm the luckiest girl in the world*, I ended up more than recouping my loss when I won the Borders gift card in the members-only drawing at the end of the night! Now I'm faced with a serious dilemma... what to spend it on, from my mile-long Books To Read list? My educational options:
A new ruby book, maybe The Best of Ruby Quiz? Inspiration after learning more about ruby's metaprogramming features
or:
The software engineering book everyone's been talking about: Beautiful Code
I'm earmarking this hard-earned money for tech, and making myself stay away from the fiction section (mmm, very tempting). What does everyone think? I love reading recommendations.
* Other evidence: I get to work with not just one, but three Microsoft MVPs!