Errata for From Java To Ruby

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PDF	Paper	Description	Found in
all		#25379: The "Report erratum" link is wrong! http://books.pragprog.com/title/fr_j2r/errata/add?pdf_page=16 should be http://books.pragprog.com...more...	P1.0 02-Jul-06
15		#28882: Figure 1.1 has a timeline that goes from 1950 1960 1970 1980 1900 -- should be 1990 2000--Jason Vinson	P1.0 01-May-07
16		#25378: In the 3rd paragraph of the "The Hierarchy of Pain" section: "too many ve...more...	P1.0 02-Jul-06
17		#27903: "The inventor of SPC, Edward Walter Demming ..." is certainly incorrect. See the reference in Wikipedia for "William Edwards Deming". I origin...more...	P1.0 22-Mar-07
20		#25990: The third bullet near the bottom of the page contains the sentence "Similar Java programs have to deal with objects, but also characters, numb...more...	P1.0 26-Sep-06
	50	#25463: "But learning an integrated development language, such as Eclipse..." In this context, it seems "development tool" would be more appropriate t...more...	P1.0 17-Jul-06
57		#25787: Second sentence under 3.6 Looking Ahead reads "Many Java visionaries are leaving the Java community to gear up for Java development" Shouldn't...more...	P1.0 26-Aug-06
	58	#25464: "Many Java visionaries are leaving the Java community to gear up for Java development." I suspect the last two words were supposed to be "Rub...more...	P1.0 17-Jul-06
	73	#25465: The heading for section 4.5 is "Scenario 4: Bet-your-Business: Basecamp" but the text for section 4.5 does not explain what Basecamp is, nor d...more...	P1.0 17-Jul-06
85		#25407: Velocity has nothing to do with database wrappers - it is a view technology.--Michiel de Mare	P1.0 07-Jul-06
	97	#25466: "If you're building a user interface in Ruby that merely submits simple forms and accessing a Java back end..." should use "accesses" instead ...more...	P1.0 17-Jul-06
	108	#25467: The heading for section 6.3 is "Ruby to Java Bridges" but the first sentence on the section contains the phrase "Java to Ruby bridge solutions...more...	P1.0 17-Jul-06
110		#25989: The sentence of the second bullet point just below the middle of the page ("Use Java frameworks from within the Ruby langauge.") ends with "la...more...	P1.0 26-Sep-06
	112	#25468: "We have working prototypes of servlets for running run Ruby we applications..." the word "run" is not needed.--Gregg Sporar	P1.0 17-Jul-06
	113	#25469: "As we saw in the interview, JRuby is a Ruby virtual machine, written in Ruby..." But in the answer to the first question, Charles Nutter sta...more...	P1.0 17-Jul-06
	115	#25470: "Keep in mind that today, JRuby is under heavy development, and would be an agressive move..." The word "it" should be inserted in front of "would"--Gregg Sporar	P1.0 17-Jul-06
	120	#25471: "This flow represents the way the Web has worked for decades." Using the word "decades" suggests 20 years or more. HTTP has only been around...more...	P1.0 17-Jul-06
	133	#25472: "For example, the people database holds person objects." Since this is in the context of naming tables, shouldn't the sentence be: "For examp...more...	P1.0 17-Jul-06
	133	#25473: "In Active Record, a row named person_id would point to a row in the people database." It seems like the sentence should be: "In Active Recor...more...	P1.0 17-Jul-06
	143	#25474: "... powered by the success of it's flagship framework, Ruby on Rails." The "it's" should be "its"--Gregg Sporar	P1.0 17-Jul-06