# OT: best books **URL:** \ **Category:** Rails\ **Created:** [May 23, 2006, 9:55pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ot-best-books/95174 "2006-05-23T21:55:20Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![agnathan](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/a/919ad9/32.png) [@agnathan](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/agnathan)\ **Post date:** [May 23, 2006, 9:55pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ot-best-books/95174/1 "2006-05-23T21:55:20Z")
Hopefully this isn’t completely inappropriate, but lately I’ve been curious about what books people have found most helpful in their development as programmers. If one of the icons like Dave T., DHH, Mike C., Andy Hunt et al could weigh in that’d be awesome 🙂 Here are some of my favorites: Refactoring, Martin F. Mastering Regular Expressions, Friedl (regex’s rock!!) Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs, Abelson and Sussman (the above made my head explode when I was in high school) Head First Design Patterns (because the GoF book put me to sleep) Agile Development with Ruby on Rails (because it went through the process of making a web site in an awesome way) The Pragmatic Programmer So what am I missing out on? 🙂 Daniel ---
**Author:** ![agnathan](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/a/919ad9/32.png) [@agnathan](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/agnathan)\ **Post date:** [May 23, 2006, 10:08pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ot-best-books/95174/2 "2006-05-23T22:08:31Z")
On 5/23/06, Daniel H. [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) wrote: > Head First Design Patterns (because the GoF book put me to sleep) > Agile Development with Ruby on Rails (because it went through the process > of making a web site in an awesome way) > The Pragmatic Programmer It sort of depends what field you’re working in as a programmer. ---
**Author:** ![agnathan](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/a/919ad9/32.png) [@agnathan](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/agnathan)\ **Post date:** [May 23, 2006, 10:11pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ot-best-books/95174/3 "2006-05-23T22:11:40Z")
On 5/23/06, Daniel H. [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) wrote: > Hopefully this isn’t completely inappropriate, but lately I’ve been curious > about what books people have found most helpful in their development as > programmers. If one of the icons like Dave T., DHH, Mike C., Andy > Hunt et al could weigh in that’d be awesome 🙂 > > Here are some of my favorites: > Mastering Regular Expressions, Friedl (regex’s rock!!) Agreed. This book is amazing. The GoF book is on my list, but if that’s too dry for you “Java Design Patterns: A Tutorial” is well done and easier to read. I’d also add “The Design and Evolution of C++” to the list. – James ---
**Author:** ![agnathan](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/a/919ad9/32.png) [@agnathan](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/agnathan)\ **Post date:** [May 23, 2006, 10:55pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ot-best-books/95174/4 "2006-05-23T22:55:19Z")
One stupid idea that we had was to use http-access2 to send a POST variable with the session key from Instiki to a custom script on the Mailman VirtualHost that would write out a cookie. Is there a better way that doesn’t involve this level of craziness? Tony ---
**Author:** ![agnathan](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/a/919ad9/32.png) [@agnathan](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/agnathan)\ **Post date:** [May 23, 2006, 10:45pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ot-best-books/95174/5 "2006-05-23T22:45:58Z")
I’ve implemented a cookie-based LDAP login with Instiki, and now I want to use that same system somehow to allow access to mailman. The problem is, Mailman is running on a different VirtualHost than Instiki. > From what I’ve read, it’s unpossible to read a cookie from a different URL > even if the TLD is the same. Is it possible to maintain an > authentication > from an Instiki cookie without requiring another login from Mailman? Tony ---
**Author:** ![agnathan](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/a/919ad9/32.png) [@agnathan](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/agnathan)\ **Post date:** [May 23, 2006, 11:55pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ot-best-books/95174/6 "2006-05-23T23:55:06Z")
I’m attempting to write a cookie with :domain set to the entire TLD of our Intranet as a potential solution to this problem. Any other suggestions are welcome. Tony ---
**Author:** ![agnathan](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/a/919ad9/32.png) [@agnathan](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/agnathan)\ **Post date:** [May 23, 2006, 11:04pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ot-best-books/95174/7 "2006-05-23T23:04:50Z")
My previous post was totally wrong, we’d need to write javascript to do a POST to the other VirtualHost to write out a client side cookie on the Mailman VHost from Instiki. We could _not_ use http-access2 from the server side to do this. Is there an RJS template for something like this? 😉 Tony