Pros: Breadth, Depth, and Clarity
Cons: API Reference Tonnage
Rating: 4 out of 5

Technorati Tags: Ruby, Dave Thomas, Chad Fowler, Andy Hunt, programming languages, scripting languages, API reference

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Pros: Detailed Examples, Acknowledges Open Questions
Cons: Open Questions and Metaphor as Architecture
Rating: 3 out of 5
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Pros: Good writing; Thought-provoking Ideas
Cons: Didn’t I Just Read This Book?
Rating: 4 out of 5
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Pros: A ton of useful information; well-organized; entertaining
Cons: Some information will go out-of-date quickly; one or two confusing details
Rating: 4 out of 5

Technorati Tags: book reviews, books, cafe press, cafepress.com, reviews, t-shirts

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Pros: feature-rich; stationery templates; pings; preview; automation; inexpensive; handling of categories and tags
Cons: a few minor glitches, but then it has to interface with a ton of other people’s software
Rating: 5 out of 5

Technorati Tags: blogging, Ecto, Mac OS X, reviews, software

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Pros: Interesting ideas; good writing; lively sense of humor
Cons: A few oversimplifications, redundancies, and appearances of pebble-snatching
Rating: 4 out of 5
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Pros: Incredibly flexible; feature-rich; wide variety of plugins; adaptable to all sorts of needs; robust
Cons: The documentation, oh, the documentation…
Rating: 4 out of 5
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Pros: Clear overview of Extreme Programming
Cons: Some assumptions should be better supported
Rating: 4 out of 5
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Pros: Basic, clear, straightforward; includes major info on blogs; plenty of social and technical information
Cons: A few bad jokes (and that’s a matter of personal taste); a few sentences that trail into nothingness–no big deal
Rating: 5 out of 5
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Pros: Plenty of information clearly presented; information I wasn’t expecting
Cons: Too much cheerleading
Rating: 4.5 out of 5
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