Practicing Ruby, The Newsletter

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46 points·sandal··3 comments

I run a free online training program, Ruby Mendicant University, in which I spend several days each week talking with intermediate developers while they work through the course exercises.

There are surprising amount of folks who run into similar problems, so I decided to start this newsletter to help others explore these topics and learn about them so that they can be more well-rounded developers.

I am hoping that my unique opportunity to spend a lot of time with intermediate coders helps me understand their problems so that I can help solve them for a more general audience.

I have mostly quit my consulting work to focus entirely on RMU, so any proceeds from this newsletter will help offset my costs.

After you get the newsletter started I would love to hear about your thoughts on letter.ly. I've looked at it in the past and would like to start a subscription-only newsletter also.

I avoided it at first because it feels a little buggy, and the service creator's motivation for creating the service is something that's not super compatible with what I care about (see the about page: http://wlessin.com/posts/2010.html)

But the bugs seem to be minor and the basic service is super simple and exactly what I need. The real test will be to make sure I can get money out of it, which I'm trying to set up now.

Please ask me about this on twitter in about a week or two, and I'll send you some feedback. I'm @seacreature there.

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