The Jason Salas Experience

I've been fortunate to have the last few technical books I've read be donated to me and the user group I head up, and I've got some reviews to add to my collection soon about some Ruby and Ruby on Rails titles. But until then, I mad emy firdst Amazon order in awhile. So for those of you who care, here's what I'll be reading soon enough....

• Ajax Design Patterns by Michael Mahemoff - the first book from a friend of mine
• Rails Recipes (Pragmatic Programmers) - I've really digging this series
• DOM Scripting: Web Design with JavaScript and the Document Object Model - the biggest room in the world is room for improvement...
• Ruby for Rails: Ruby Techniques for Rails Developers - getting a lot of positive press lately
• Dive Into Python
  
• The Long Tail: Why the Future of Business Is Selling Less of More
• Essays on the Philosophy of Socrates
  

I'm also keen on getting copies of Wally's book about AJAX and .NET v.2.0 and Adrian's book on Django, which I've mentioned before.

If anyone's got impromptu praise/warnings about any of these, feel free to comment.