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Wonderful - I've looked at the titles, there's a lot of interesting stuff by the looks of it. Is there a particular Ruby title you'd recommend to a beginner Ruby programmer?

Great stuff, thanks for taking the time to respond! I found what looks to be a good book on Ruby on Amazon (by it's creator and another co-writer)

Thanks a million - you're actually not the first person to mention staying away from Java and PHP - why is that, I wonder?

Hi,

We're in agreement on the issue - I'm currently weighing some ideas for a web-based app so that's where I'm looking to expand my proficiency.

Thanks for the link. I've been looking to expand my programming experience since I've found myself going back into programming after having been out of it for the last 7 or so years. I used to work in Pascal/Delphi and had some exposure to C++ but since nowadays I mostly just code SQL, I feel I need to make my knowledge more current.