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Perth Leadership Internships
"I feel so grateful to have been given the opportunity to complete my internship at Perth Leadership institute. Dr. Prince worked with me more like a mentor and a friend, or even like a father. He genuinely believes in me, care about me and my future career, and can be counted on for honest feedback and encouragement. Except the basic business tasks I did during my intern time, I would say to "think out of the box" is the best things I've ever done. I used to be imprisoned in accounting major, with no interest and just for an easy job hunting. Under Dr. Prince's guidance and inspiration, I dropped accounting major and begin to take time to just stay and get me thinking in new directions about other parts of my life. If it wasn't for Dr. Prince, I would not know the meaning of leadership. I've learned so much and appreciate the time Dr. Prince spent teaching me new skills and useful industry programs. I feel I am ready for the next steps that will bring me closer to my goals. Thanks again to the guidance!" Xiwei Lou, University of Florida student 2019
"It's amazing to work in Perth Leadership Institute. Mr. Ted, the CEO and founder, is really brilliant and always looking forward. He is more like a mentor or a friend to work with. He really cares about his interns and taught me not only lots of technical skills, but also wise ideas in behavioral finance area. If you want to develop yourself to prepare for future careers, I would always say Perth Leadership Institute Internship is the right opportunity. Best employer, clear career life, and innovative knowledge in behavior finance and much more are what you will gain here." Dian Li, University of Florida student 2019
The Perth Leadership Institute runs internship programs for students and others who are interested in gaining hands-on experience in a business environment where we develop, market and sell cutting-edge products and services. Our aim is to create a work role and environment that will be customized to your particular aims and aspirations and that will stimulate and develop you as you progress within it. You will gain valuable experience as you work first-hand with seasoned executives from the business world. You will have close contact with senior business people – the type of contact you just don't get when working for large companies where you can get stuck in the hierarchy. Our interns have been extremely successful in getting jobs following their internship with us. This is because they participate in business projects that are of immediate relevance and use to many jobs. These roles include, IT, web development, SEO, marketing, product development, project management and other areas. Employers recognize that we are a global leader in the leadership development area and they therefore accord our interns a very high level of respect due to the unique experience they get with us. During your internship we will work with you to show you skills you will not gain anywhere else in how to land the job you really want. Our background in leadership and with senior executives globally gives us unique insights that we can provide to you to give you a huge competitive advantage in your job search, no matter what your educational area or your nationality. |
I worked with Ted as an intern for about four months and had a meaningful work experience doing a mathematical modeling financial project. He is a nice person and easy to get along with. During the internship I was often surprised that Ted is so very hard working and so serious about the company's work. I would recommend Perth Leadership as a great intern experience for any advanced students.
Juntong Deng, Master's in Information Systems and Operations Management, 2018
I spent time working with Perth Leadership Institute as an IT intern during 2018. I not only learned a lot of technical knowledge, but also learned about American culture. At the same time, Ted also helped me polish my resume and gave helpful advice for my job searching. Many thanks to Ted for his patience and generosity. Ted is a humorous and intelligent man, everyone would benefit and be happy to work with him. I believe that working with Ted is a very good chance for self-improvement.
Lu Han, Master's in Information Systems and Operations Management, 2018
I was awarded a 4 months internship in Perth Leadership Institute which helped me a lot on getting my ideal job. Before I started my internship here, I was not sure which field of work I should seek. After discussing with him several times, Dr. Ted Prince helped me to figure out how to match my background to the job markets and how to prepare for future possible opportunities. Dr. Prince is always willing to help you in not only solve the problem that you met in web development but also to tell you how to work and talk in American culturally-appropriate way. Dr. Prince worked with me like a friend and he provided me the opportunity to help me to get practical experience and job. Before I got the final interview, he gave me a mock interview and told me a bunch of interview skills which finally help me get my job.
I will always recommend Perth Leadership Institute internship as an awesome opportunity for any students or graduates who want to find a good job or get practical working experience. It was totally a good preparation for your future full-time job. What you will get in Perth Leadership Institute is not only experience but more about confidence and skills.
Doris Liu, University of Florida graduate in Information Systems and Operations Management, 2015
Dr. Ted Prince is a great mentor and also a nice friend! I learned a lot form my internship in Perth, both in the technical and behavioral areas. I believe the internship in Perth helped me enormously me to find a job in the United States. Thank you again Ted!
Yue Dong, Master's in Information Science and Operations Management 2015
As an intern in Perth Leadership, my three months internship offered me numerous learning opportunities beyond what I envisaged. It is the people there who made the experience more interesting and valuable. Before I worked for Perth Leadership, I knew little about consulting and about real business. In those months, Perth guided me to carry out practical tasks immediately applicable to any real job. In particular I learned SEO approaches applicable to search opportunities and visibility strategies for a company's official website. I could immediately feel a huge improvement in my business familiarity and expertise. In another task I was given, to strategize methods for enhancing ROI metrics on the major search engines via organic search, I learned how to analyze problems from customers' eyes and from the perspective of investors.
Dr. Ted Prince is intelligent, amicable and humorous. He worked with me not as a boss but a mentor and a friend. Dr. Prince instructed me a lot when I started to search for jobs before graduation, like building networks by inviting me to party of local entrepreneurs, and helping me polish my resume and cover-letter. With his suggestions and experience from the internship I got almost immediately another great internship in a cloud technology position in Silicon Valley. If there were any great place in Gainesville for you to improve your experience and job suitability, Perth Leadership is definitely a good start.
Wendy Liao, MSc., (Industrial and System Engineering), University of Florida, 2014
An internship at Perth Leadership Institute offers an ideal opportunity to get to know a practical work environment. At Perth, Dr. Prince assigns intern positions specifically suitable for individuals based on one's specialty. As a technical intern, I had a great time working on practical challenges in a real business context. Co-workers help each other: I felt especially thankful when I was doing the internship because the previous and current working interns would give you a hand whenever you need. My five months internship experience significantly built my confidence, which is particular important when I was seeking a full-time job. I found it very beneficial to work together with my co-workers and Dr. Prince because the cooperative work greatly ignites my passion to put more effort on my internship. More importantly, Dr. Prince spent lots of his personal time to give us interns many useful lessons that one would not learn anywhere from universities. I felt very lucky to have this opportunity to work with Dr. Prince on my development and testing position and to improve my interpersonal skills. This tailored-for-you internship is unique yet very beneficial to anyone who wants to learn the business, market or tech industry and eventually land in an ideal full-time position.
Bowen Zhang, University of Florida graduate in Electrical and Computer Engineering, 2014
My internship in Perth Leadership Institute was definitely a great start for me following graduation and would definitely be a noteworthy experience for new graduates and students who want to find a good job and their right career path. Having experienced four months working there, I learned a lot and got valuable knowledge from Dr. Ted Prince. Ted is really an energetic, talented and experienced boss, and I feel lucky to have met him. After talking to Ted about my interests and previous background, I started doing system development, and gained IT knowledge that was highly applicable and practical. At the same time, I got to know a lot about business models and the operations of a company. Besides, Ted always gave me advice about how to work efficiently and provided me a very broad understanding of the current job market. As a new entry-level employee, it was really a treasure acquiring such information. Now I got a job as a Quality Assurance Analyst in a software company, and this experience really helped me a lot not only to get my current job, but also in my future career development.
Vicky Lee, University of Florida graduate in Industrial and Systems Engineering, 2012
"The hands-on, real life experience that I gained through my internship at the Perth Leadership Institute has proved to be invaluable. The experience is something that I would never have encountered during my classroom studies. I implemented professional videos editing tools to create Perth's unique Internet TV metaphors channel, and worked with the website design team to improve the website's performance with one of the most advanced CMS systems. In additional to these projects, I also participated in the Perth PLOM training, from where I had the chance to meet CEOs and company executives from all over the North America and learned innovative leadership knowledge that I could never obtain from anywhere else. I particularly enjoyed the confidence that Dr. E. Ted Prince put into the interns. It allowed us to take full responsibility and to be really involved in the projects. I think that very few internships offer such an opportunity to show what they are capable of. Doing my best for the Perth was a both a rewarding and a pleasurable experience." Melody Sun, Master's in Information Systems and Operations Management 2012
"I worked for the Perth Leadership Institute in the marketing team during 2010, where I was involved with finding and developing possible marketing partners and building alliances on both an international and regional level.
When I applied for the internship, it was really the culture of the company rather than the professional side of things that I was initially attracted to. Their unique coaching model also taught me not only how to conduct marketing, but also what business acumen is and how to use it in your professional role. Also they have a really good reputation amongst the University of Florida community..
There's such a variety of work and opportunities that interns can actually get involved with; I've been to networking events, business development and secondments to different business areas – all of which are actively encouraged, so you never feel like you are limited or pigeon-holed in your core role. Perth really encourages its interns to take opportunities for personal development so there are loads of courses you can go on. To me, Perth is one of the best companies to work for." Lily Liu. MS, Hospitality and Tourism Management, 2011
"I worked for Perth as an intern for almost 2 years. My job was to develop marketing materials in Chinese for the Institute. During my internship, the Institute provided me with leadership training so I gained a lot of knowledge about leadership approaches and how to assess leadership skills. Also, working for Perth enabled me to be more familiar with American standard business approaches which was really useful in my academic studies (in graduate business school) and for my career development.
Dr. Prince, who was also my supervisor, was a very good tutor and career advisor. He taught me not only business knowledge, but also how to communicate with others. Especially when I had setbacks during my job hunting, Dr. Prince gave me a lot of advice, which helped me enormously to get a job eventually. I am really glad that I had the chance to work for Perth Leadership Institute." Yuda Chen, University of Florida, MAIB 2011
"My internship at Perth has been a remarkable experience. It provided me with valuable working experience that complemented my engineering and business management education. The knowledge and skills that I acquired at Perth have definitely helped me prepare for my career. I built confidence and improved my communication and time management skill sets. The personal experiences and lessons shared by Dr. E. Ted Prince exceeded anything that can be learned in a classroom. Working with Perth was the best decision I have ever made in my professional and personal life." Emily Cheng, UF graduate M.Eng, M,Sc. 2011
"My experience at Perth Leadership Institute has made me more prepared for the ever changing business world. The unique idea of business acumen has opened doors and eyes of many employers because of its rare presence in companies despite its very sensible and effective ideology. The great thing about Perth is you learn many useful skills ranging from sales to management. Working at Perth actually gives you experience and doesn't just waste your time doing monotonous activities many other companies practice for interns and I thank Perth for that. " Ryan Collins, University of Florida, graduate 2010
"My internship in Perth Leadership Institute has equipped me with real life business, leadership and personal skills that can never be found in textbooks. By working closely with veteran CEO Dr. E. Ted Prince, I gained a massive amount of business insights & techniques that highly differentiated me from other graduates and really impressed the recruiters. I feel so fortunate to have had such an opportunity to learn all these lessons at such an early stage of my life. And most importantly, the career coaching from Perth has landed me a dream job in the US in a highly competitive job market which, as a foreigner, is harder to get employed in. I highly recommend working with Perth since the internship will offer you an experience that you will find nowhere else in the market." Eric Huang, Master's in Information Systems and Operations Management, University of Florida, 2010
"Interning at Perth has given me an excellent opportunity to transition from the classroom to the workplace. Not only have I gained the confidence to speak one on one with executive staff members of Fortune 500 companies, I have also learned the true meaning of professionalism and integrity as I observed the Perth staff in action. From my experience in sales at Perth, I have learned that being genuine and sincere is made easy when one believes in the end product." Melissa Crumbly, University of Florida student 2009
"My intern experience at the Perth Leadership Institute has been valuable. Lessons I have gained from my fellow professionals have allowed me to gain a better understanding of sales. By developing the right mind set and being persistent, I have been able to establish relationships with executives of multi-billion dollar companies. " Ali Al-Rajhi, University of Florida Master's student 2008
"If I had not completed the internship with Perth, I couldn't call myself a graduate. Perth not only gave me the opportunities to practice what I learned in class, but it also taught me how to work with highly experienced people. The working environment is so friendly and open minded. I could utilize my ideas 100% and I learned new things every day. I'm so delighted to be a part of the Perth Leadership Institute."Kornsiri Thirawongpaisal, University of Florida student 2007
Time Commitment
We understand that you are managing a busy course schedule and so can create a timetable that fits with your needs. However, we also expect from you a professional approach in meeting our agreed timetable with you.
We require a minimum commitment of 10 hours per week. This requirement depends on the projects being undertaken at the time, and will be agreed with you in advance.
Internships can run concurrent with the each university term, or on an ad-hoc basis, as agreed. We have three levels of internships, as follows:
Silver Level
Completion Criteria – 112 hours (14 weeks, 2 x 4 hour shifts per week)
Gold Level
Completion Criteria – 168 hours (14 weeks, 3 x 4 hour shifts per week)
Platinum Level
Completion Criteria – 224 hours (14 weeks, 4 x 4 hour shifts per week)
Reference Letters
We will provide reference letters for interns who successfully complete either the Silver, Gold or Platinum level internships with us.
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Enterprise Risk Management
Enterprise risk management is a business strategy composed of plans, processes and controls that attempt identify risks, mitigate exposure to risk, minimize the impacts of risks, and prepare for risks should they turn into a reality. Enterprise risk management touches all areas of an organization from sales to operations, to marketing, competitor, regulations, customers and of course, financial losses and cash flow.
The goal of enterprise risk management is to identify and plan for risks to protect a business against detrimental risks. Enterprise risk management usually entails a process of risk identification, assessing the likelihood of the risk occurring, the degree of impact, the response strategy, and then planning to ensure the risk can be avoided.
Some risks, like natural disasters, can be managed by insurance. But there's also risks associated with supply chains, cash flow, employees, and of course, big data. Enterprise risk management often evokes a conversation around data integrity and internals controls, which loops back to the Sarbanes Oxley Act and other regulatory actions which serve to both ensure companies are monitoring and managing risks accurately so external stakeholders are aware of risks facing their interests.

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Training is good, but being a "natural" is better! GURPS Fourth Edition brings this real-life adage to the gaming table with Talents – advantages that improve groups of related skills and make them easier to learn. But so many Talents appear in so many GURPS supplements that choosing among them can involve tiresome amounts of page-flipping. GURPS Power-Ups 3: Talents solves this problem by collecting all the "official" Talents in one place, noting their point costs, skill lists, and reaction modifiers – and their original sources, for campaigns that use only certain GURPS supplements.
Power-Ups 3: Talents is more than a catalog, though. It offers clarifications on what counts as a unique skill for Talent purposes, how Talents interact with defaults, and how to include combat skills in Talents without breaking the game. Also, it proposes many entirely new optional rules for Talents, such as:
If you like Talents, then you'll love all the examples and options that Power-Ups 3: Talents provides!
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Water is what your body is made of, 95% of it! Drinking plenty of clean water on a regular basis is literally changing 95% of your body.
The deliberate chemical contamination of water through the use of chlorine, or fluoride, a fertilizer industry byproduct, is therefore a direct attack on the human body.
How Do You Know if You're Drinking Enough Water?
By Dr. Mercola
Throughout each day, your body loses water through your urine and sweat glands—even when you're not purposely working up a sweat. As a result, you have to constantly replenish this fluid, and soft drinks do not count toward this requirement…
Coffee and soda are typically high in caffeine, which acts as a diuretic that can dehydrate you. Worse yet, sodas, fruit juices, and other sweetened beverages are primary sources of fructose, which will only deteriorate your health.
Ditto for artificially sweetened beverages. So the key is to drink pure water. But just how much water do you need each day? While an oft-repeated guideline says you should drink eight glasses of water a day, this may be too much for some, and not enough for others.
Your water requirement can also vary wildly from day to day depending on a number of factors, such as your activity level and weather conditions.
Fortunately, your body is equipped with a mechanism that tells you when you need to replenish your water supply. It's called thirst. And there's also a simple way to gauge whether or not you need to drink more water even though you may not be feeling thirsty.
How to Read the Signs for Your Body's Water Needs
Once your body has lost between one to two percent of its total water content, it will signal its needs by making you feel thirsty. Using thirst as a guide to how much water you need to drink is a good way to ensure your individual needs are met, day-by-day.
However, by the time your thirst mechanism kicks in you may already be a bit dehydrated. Most studies show that about 2/3 of us are dehydrated and need to drink more water.
This is particularly true for the elderly. Therefore, it's also wise to learn some of the other, more subtle, signals your body sends, indicating you need to drink more water. As noted in the featured article,1 this includes:
- Fatigue and/or mood swings
- Hunger even though you've recently eaten
- Back or joint aches
- Dull, dry skin and/or pronounced wrinkles
- Infrequent urination; dark, concentrated urine, and/or constipation
The Color of Your Urine Is an Important Marker
Besides listening to your thirst, a good rule of thumb is to look at the color of your urine. You should be drinking enough water to turn your urine a light-colored yellow.
Dark-colored urine is a sign that your kidneys are retaining fluids in order to maintain your bodily functions, which includes detoxification. As a result, your urine will seem highly concentrated and dark in color. You may also urinate less frequently, for the same reason.
Since your thirst mechanism tends to become less efficient with age, older adults need to pay more careful attention to the color of their urine to ensure adequate water intake.
Bear in mind that riboflavin (vitamin B2, which is also found in most multi-vitamins) will turn your urine a bright, almost fluorescent yellow. So if you're taking supplements containing B2, it may be more difficult to judge by the color of your urine.
Frequency of urination can also be used to judge your water intake. A healthy person urinates on average about seven or eight times a day. If your urine is scant or if you haven't urinated in several hours, that too is an indication that you're not drinking enough.
Symptoms of Chronic Dehydration
The primary symptoms of dehydration are: thirst, dry skin, dark colored urine, and fatigue. But there are also a number of commonly overlooked symptoms that may suggest you're suffering from more or less chronic dehydration. Such symptoms include:
- Digestive disturbances such as heartburn and constipation
- Confusion and/or anxiety
- Urinary tract infections
- Premature aging
- High cholesterol
Dehydration Is a Common Problem Among the Elderly
According to recent research, one in five seniors does not get enough water on a daily basis. Among those who do not have a caretaker, that number is even higher—one in four. And seniors with dementia are six times more likely to be dehydrated.
Dehydration also tends to be more common among people taking more medication. According to BBC News:2
"A 2013 analysis of death certificates by the [UK] Office for National Statistics had shown that 1,158 care home residents suffered dehydration-related deaths between 2003 and 2012.
But Dr. [Lee] Hooper said those figures were not clear-cut as patients often stopped eating or drinking towards the end of life. She also stressed that while care homes could sometimes do better, it was important to point out that identifying dehydration and solving its causes was complex.
'The reasons older people do not drink enough are that as we age we lose our sense of thirst so they may not be thirsty. [Or they] decide not to drink because of continence issues, because they don't have as much social contact or because of frailty or forgetfulness.'"
Why I Do Not Recommend Bottled Water
While drinking water will help flush out toxins, the more unfiltered water you drink, the more pollutants you're consuming… Most tap water contains an array of harmful contaminants, including fluoride, disinfection byproducts, chemicals, radiation, heavy metals, and pharmaceutical drugs. Additionally, be careful about bathing in unfiltered water as you can easily absorb more toxins by breathing in a hot shower than you can by drinking tap water all day long.
Last year, federal scientists reported3 finding traces of 18 unregulated contaminants in one-third of the water samples collected from 25 municipal utilities across the US, including perfluorinated compounds like PFOA. So besides making sure you're drinking enough, another very important consideration is the type of water you drink.
Many instinctively reach for bottled water, but there are many reasons to avoid this option. Drinking from plastic water bottles can pose serious health risks from industrial chemicals like bisphenol-A and bisphenol-S (BPA/BPS), as well as phthalates, which leach from the plastic itself into the contents of the bottle. BPA and BPS are estrogen-mimicking chemicals linked to reproductive defects, learning and behavioral problems, immune dysfunction, and prostate and breast cancer. Phthalates are also endocrine disruptors, and have been linked to a wide range of developmental and reproductive effects, as well as liver cancer.
Bottled water also costs about 1,900 times the price of regular tap water, and may or may not have received any additional treatment. Studies have shown that 40 percent of bottled water is actually regular tap water with possibly no additional filtering treatment. While the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) requires large public water supplies to test for contaminants several times a day, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) requires private bottlers to test for contaminants only once a week, once a year, or once every four years, depending on the contaminant.
One independent test4 performed by the Environmental Working Group (EWG) in 2011 revealed 38 low-level contaminants in bottled water. Each of the 10 tested brands contained an average of eight chemicals. Disinfection byproducts (DBPs), caffeine, Tylenol, nitrate, industrial chemicals, arsenic, and bacteria were all detected. Fluoride is also usually present in both tap water and filtered bottled water.
Many bottled waters actually make a point of adding fluoride back into the water, so if you are drinking bottled water, make sure it's fluoride-free. Last but not least, plastic bottles also cause enormous environmental problems because of the sheer volume of plastic waste they create; the lack of adequate recycling capability for plastics; and the amount of oil required to manufacture them.
The Health Benefits of 'Living Water'
The answer to all these health- and environmental issues is to minimize or eliminate your use of plastic water bottles. The most economical and environmentally sound choice you can make is to purchase and install a water filter for your home. And, in lieu of plastic bottles, use reusable glass water bottles instead, which have a much smaller ecological footprint.
The very best water, however, comes from a natural gravity-fed spring. I do not recommend drinking distilled water on a regular basis. It's too acidic, and is not recommended for extended use, although it can be beneficial for temporary detoxification purposes. The ideal pH of your water should be between 6.5 to 7.5, which is neutral. What you want is pure water that is clean, pH balanced, and "alive."
Mountain spring water is ideal. Not only does it have a healthy pH, but it's also "structured" in a way that is not well understood. I've previously interviewed Dr. Gerald Pollack on this subject. He's one of the leading research scientists in the world when it comes to understanding the physics of water, and what it means to your health. His book, The Fourth Phase of Water: Beyond Solid, Liquid, and Vapor, clearly explains the theory of the fourth phase of water, which is nothing short of ground-breaking.
The fourth phase of water is, in a nutshell, living water. It's referred to as EZ water—EZ standing for "exclusion zone"—which has a negative charge. This water can hold energy, much like a battery, and can deliver energy, too. This is the kind of water your cells contain; even your extracellular tissues are filled with EZ water, which is why he believes it's so important to drink structured water for optimal health.
I drink vortexed water nearly exclusively as I became a big fan of Viktor Schauberger, who did much pioneering work on vortexing about a century ago. Dr. Pollack confirms that by creating a vortex in a glass of water, you're putting more energy into it, thereby increasing EZ. Water from deep sources, such as deep spring water, is an excellent choice as EZ water is also created under pressure. FindaSpring.com5 is an excellent resource that can help you find a natural spring nearby. As an added boon, collecting spring water is usually free—you just need to bring your own jugs. I recommend using glass jugs instead of plastic, for all the reasons discussed earlier.
Healthy Additives for a Touch of Flavor
As more people are becoming aware of the health dangers of soda, the beverage industry has created a whole new breed of "healthy" beverages—so called "functional" and enhanced waters, fortified with everything from vitamins and minerals to electrolytes, oxygen, fiber, and even protein. But if you take a closer look at the labels, you'll discover they're spiking your punch with a lot of unsavory ingredients, many capable of wreaking havoc on your metabolism, hormones, and other physiological processes. Many contain loads of sugar, making them no better than soda…
For occasions when you do want a dash of flavor, simply add some fresh lemon or lime juice to your water. As noted in a previous Huffington Post article,6 lemon water has over a dozen health benefits, from easing constipation and urinary tract infections, to boosting your immune system, cleansing your liver, and improving your skin.
Sliced cucumbers can also add a refreshing twist. If you want a touch of sweetness, add some natural Stevia or Luo Han Guo, which are among the safest sugar substitutes. Alternatively, simply add a drop or two of natural peppermint extract or a few crushed mint leaves from your herb garden. If you want an electrolyte type "sports drink," try coconut water, which is a rich natural source of potassium and electrolytes. Look for one that has no additives. Or choose a fresh, young coconut and harvest it yourself.
For Optimal Health, You Need Pure Water, and Enough of It
There's no doubt that you need pure water for optimal health. Simply swapping out all the sweetened, bottled beverages you indulge in for pure water can go a long way toward improving your health—and your weight. The amount, however, is something you need to fine tune based on your individual circumstances.
Remember to listen to your body. Thirst is an obvious signal that it's high time to replenish your fluids. Fatigue and moodiness can also indicate you need to drink more water. Probably the best way to gauge your water needs however, is to observe the color of your urine, and how frequently you urinate. On average, a healthy number of bathroom visits is around seven or eight per day, and you want the color of your urine to be a light, pale yellow.
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China Channels Billy Mitchell: Anti-Ship Ballistic Missile Alters Region's Military Geography
Publication: China Brief Volume: 13 Issue: 5
China's DF-21D anti-ship ballistic missile (ASBM) is no longer merely an aspiration. Beijing has successfully developed, partially tested and deployed in small numbers the world's first weapons system capable of targeting the last relatively uncontested U.S. airfield in the Asia-Pacific from long-range, land-based mobile launchers. This airfield is a moving aircraft carrier strike group (CSG), which the Second Artillery, China's strategic missile force, now has the capability to at least attempt to disable with the DF-21D in the event of conflict. With the ASBM having progressed this far, and representing the vanguard of a broad range of potent asymmetric systems, Beijing probably expects to achieve a growing degree of deterrence with it.
None of this should be surprising. Numerous data points have been emerging from Chinese sources as well as official statements and reports from Washington and Taipei for years now, available to anyone willing to connect them. They offer an instructive case study not only to military analysts, but also to anyone conducting analysis under conditions of imperfect information. For instance, relevant Chinese publications multiplied throughout the late 1990s, dipped in a classic "bathtub-shaped" pattern from 2004 to 2006 at a critical point in ASBM development and component testing, and rose sharply thereafter as China headed towards initial deployment beginning in 2010. China is always more transparent in Chinese, and analysts must act accordingly.
The Ghost of Billy Mitchell
What is perhaps most surprising is the foreign skepticism and denial that has accompanied China's ASBM. Again, however, this sort of disbelief is nothing new. At the close of World War II, the following editorial appeared: "The ghost of Billy Mitchell should haunt those who crucified him a few years back when he so openly declared that no nation could win the next war without air superiority and advocated that the U.S. move at once to build a strong air force. Billy Mitchell was merely far ahead of his time and it is regrettable that he didn't live to see his prophecy come true" (Prescott Evening Courier, May 7, 1945). Mitchell's legacy stems from his willingness to push for such revolutionary approaches as the July 21, 1921 test-bombing of captured German battleship Ostfriesland, even at the cost of his career.
Consider the reported reaction of then-Secretary of the Navy Josephus Daniels to Mitchell's proposal: "Good God! This man should be writing dime novels! … That idea is so damned nonsensical and impossible that I'm willing to stand on the bridge of a battleship while that nit-wit tries to hit if from the air!" Needless to say, Daniels was nowhere near Ostfriesland when army aircraft sunk it with two bombs (New York Times, July 22, 1921) [1].
The test's efficacy was hotly contested by the U.S. Navy and remains debated to this day. Theodore Roosevelt, then-Assistant Secretary of the Navy, was decidedly unimpressed: "I once saw a man kill a lion with a 30-30 caliber rifle under certain conditions, but that doesn't mean that a 30-30 rifle is a lion gun" [2]. Yet the fact of a hit, however manipulated and revealed, changed the strategic equation. It altered service budgets immediately and helped catalyze development of what later became the U.S. Air Force.
The future is difficult to predict. While it is certainly hubristic to insist that it will unfold in a certain way, it is equally hubristic to insist that it will not.
No Need for a "Lion Gun"
As with anti-carrier aviation, physics allows for an ASBM, and is the same for China's burgeoning defense industry as for any of its foreign counterparts. Like the Martin bombers that assaulted Ostfriesland with their 2,000 pound bombs, the DF-21D is not a novel idea or technology, but rather an architectural innovation, or 'Frankenweapon,' involving a novel assembly of existing systems to yield a new use with unprecedented maneuverability and accuracy. The United States and Russia could have developed an ASBM before China, but are proscribed from doing so by the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces (INF) Treaty they ratified in 1988. Still, military capabilities are determined by effectiveness with respect to objectives, not technological sophistication for its own sake. To paraphrase Secretary Roosevelt, you do not need to invent a "Lion Gun" if a 30-30 rifle can be rigged to do the job. China frequently pursues an "80 percent solution" that may be just good enough to further, or even realize, many of its objectives. In light of sequestration, this approach should inform Pentagon deliberations surrounding prioritization and efficiency.
No Need for a Chinese Mitchell
China may never have had its own Mitchell, but it did not need one. Chinese prioritization of ballistic missile development dates to the 1950s, creating both strengths and institutional interests. Nobody risked court martial for suggesting that carriers could be attacked in a new way. Rather, following the 1995–96 Taiwan Strait crises and 1999 Belgrade embassy bombing, China's top leaders—starting with Jiang Zemin—ordered and funded megaprojects to achieve precisely such effects.
ASBM development fits perfectly into Beijing's far broader effort to further still-contested island and maritime claims in the Near Seas (Yellow, South China and East China Seas). The DF-21D epitomizes Sun Zi's universally-relevant injunction: "In war, the way is to avoid what is strong, and strike at what is weak." Together with China's other ballistic missiles, cruise missiles, submarines and electromagnetic weapons, it targets specific physics-based limitations in U.S., allied and friendly military forces to increase the risk to them of intervening in crises on China's periphery. Even among these other potent systems, however, the ASBM is distinguished by its ability to be fired from mobile, highly-concealable platforms toward moving targets hundreds of kilometers from China's shores.
No Longer a "Dime Novel"
On March 16, 2011, Taiwan National Security Bureau Director-General Tsai De-sheng restated a previous claim from August 2010 that the PLA already had tested and was deploying the DF-21D ("Taiwan's Intelligence Chief Warns about the PLA's Growing Strategic Weapon Systems," China Brief, March 25, 2011). The 2011 ROC National Defense Report confirmed that "a small quantity of" DF-21D ASBMs "were produced and deployed in 2010" [3]. In December 2010, then-Commander of U.S. Pacific Command Admiral Robert Willard asserted "The anti-ship ballistic missile system in China has undergone extensive testing. An analogy using a Western term would be 'Initial Operational Capability (IOC),' whereby it has—I think China would perceive that it has—an operational capability now, but they continue to develop it. It will continue to undergo testing, I would imagine, for several more years" (Asahi Shimbun, December 28, 2010).
As for supporting infrastructure, on January 3, 2011, Vice Admiral David Dorsett stated that the PLA "likely has the space-based intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance (ISR), command and control structure, and ground processing capabilities necessary to support DF-21D employment…[and also] employs an array of non-space based sensors and surveillance assets capable of providing the targeting information" (Bloomberg, January 3, 2011). Two days later, Dorsett added "The Chinese have tested the DF-21D missile system over land a sufficient number of times that the missile system itself is truly competent and capable. …they have ISR, they have sensors onboard ship that can feed into the targeting aspect of it. So could they start to employ that and field it operationally? Yes, I think so" (Air Force Magazine, January 5, 2011).
Willard's carefully-chosen words reflect the difficulty in equating Chinese and U.S. development benchmarks. The U.S. Defense Acquisition University defines IOC as "attained when some units and/or organizations in the force structure scheduled to receive a system (1) have received it and (2) have the ability to employ and maintain it" (dap.dau.mil, April 19, 2005). Essentially, China's ASBM is not fully operational or necessarily fully tested, but is available to be used in some fashion. In a broadly analogous example, the E-8 Joint STARS aircraft did not achieve IOC until June 1996, when the U.S. Air Force received its first aircraft. According to the official history section on the Air Force's website, however, two developmental E-8 Joint STARS were employed operationally as early as 1991 in Operation Desert Storm even though the aircraft was still in test and evaluation.
Analysts will be hard-pressed to identify a sharp red line between IOC and full operational capability for China's ASBM. This is part of a larger analytical challenge in which Chinese "hardware" continues to improve dramatically, but the "software" supporting and connecting it remains uncertain and untested in war. Multiple trials have already validated DF-21D components, but Beijing's ability to employ it against a moving, uncooperative sea-surface target remains unproven. Such confidence almost certainly requires additional testing. Lack of demonstrated progress in this area may be explained by concern that failure might undermine deterrence accrued thus far while alarming China's neighbors—yielding "the onus without the bonus." Limitations in jointness, bureaucratic-technological coordination and integration as well as data fusion—pervasive in the PLA more generally—represent larger challenges.
Countermeasures…and a Moving Target
The operational equation is certainly incomplete without considering U.S. countermeasures. In 2011, then-Chief of Naval Operations Admiral Gary Roughead stated, "even though the DF 21 has become a newsworthy weapon, the fact is our aircraft carriers can maneuver, and we have systems that can counter weapons like that" (Navy Times, March 16, 2011).
Nonetheless, Chinese capabilities also represent a moving target. Beijing will not slow progress to accommodate U.S. sequestration. Backed by an economy that the U.S. National Intelligence Council predicts will surpass U.S. GDP in any major measure by 2030, China is already pursuing an array of weapons programs only equaled by the U.S., and utterly unmatched in dynamism and flexibility of resource allocation.
Changing East Asia's Military Geography
Just as U.S. development of long-range precision strike from aircraft carriers enabled it to win the Pacific War by penetrating Japan's previously impregnable homeland, Chinese development of long-range precision strike, exemplified by the ASBM, threatens the sanctuary of the aircraft carriers that have long served as well-defended platforms from which to launch strikes on sea and land. By threatening U.S. carriers at a greater distance than their aircraft's range, this alteration of the ways of war could be every bit as momentous as the one that Mitchell identified.
As China's ASBM becomes more effective operationally, it may reinforce China's continentalist approach to defense, "using the land to control the sea." To further its Near Seas interests, Beijing's focus on developing a partially shore-based, missile-centric "Anti-Navy" to deter foreign navies' intervention is a far more efficient approach than pursuing a blue water navy of its own. Here, China's institutional predilections serve it well, and permit it to challenge U.S. forces severely, even as it spends far less on its military than does the United States.
China appears to be already seeking to leverage the DF-21D for strategic communications about deterrence and the reliability of U.S. assistance to regional friends and allies. This is part of a larger trend in which a more capable and confident Beijing is becoming increasingly "translucent," if still not fully transparent, regarding selected capabilities in order to enhance deterrence.
Don't Ignore Mitchell Twice
As Washington flirts with sequestration, its leaders will have to decide quickly how important it is to sustain the Asia-Pacific role that their predecessors expended so much blood and treasure to establish. To maintain this powerful legacy, the U.S. must address such emerging challenges as the political-military effects of a working ASBM with respect to reassuring allies and deterring China.
U.S. advantages undersea—which are already proven in contrast to the advanced aerial vehicles that should also be developed—must be maintained. It would be a grave error to allow numbers or deployments of nuclear attack or guided missile submarines to erode in the Asia-Pacific.
Calibrated transparency about countermeasures is needed to demonstrate that U.S. aircraft carriers can continue to operate successfully in relevant East Asian scenarios. Washington must communicate convincingly with audiences outside the U.S. and Chinese militaries. U.S. taxpayers must be persuaded that investments are needed. Allied citizens must be reassured. Chinese citizens must be disabused of simplistic notions of U.S. weakness. All information should not be hoarded for a conflict that fortunately likely will never come; some should be used to win hearts and minds and prevail in peacetime.
Conversely, failure to maintain and demonstrate adequate countermeasures to asymmetric weapons such as China's ASBM while pursuing Asia-Pacific rebalancing would create the worst of both worlds, in which China's leaders feel targeted by rebalancing, but are emboldened by its hollowness.
Billy Mitchell—to whom U.S. leaders owe so much for their influence in the Asia-Pacific today—would turn in his grave if he found that his prophetic vision had been ignored not once, but twice.
Emile Gauvreau and Lester Cohen, Billy Mitchell: Founder of Our Air Force and Prophet without Honor, New York: E.P. Dutton & Co., Inc., 1942, pp. 41, 48.
National Defense Report Editing Committee, Ministry of National Defense, 2011 ROC National Defense Report, Taipei: Ministry of National Defense, August 2011, p. 71.


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Impressions: 15 Hours With Dead Island
A Last Resort
Dead Island was released (in some manner) in the US yesterday, and arrives in the UK, once it's painstakingly paddled across the massive oceans of the internet, on Friday. I've been playing it for a long, long time, and yet still haven't got anywhere near its ending. And as such, even though I'm about to tell you Wot I Think, in the interests of probity will offer you my Impressions.
When playing the great game of marital influences, the most obvious route to take with Techland's Dead Island is "Left 4 Dead meets Dead Rising". (And yes, "Game Z is a cross between Game X and Game Y" is lazy reviewing. But Dead Island really is that. Perhaps to a fault. It's hard to credit the creators with too many original ideas of their own.) That makes a lot of technical sense. It's an up-to-four player co-op zombie survival game, in which you're given series of challenges from survivors to complete in an ever-growing hub-based island, packed with the undead. It pretty much falls exactly between the two games. But having spent a great many hours playing, and still being apparently only halfway through the game, I'm making a different, slightly more esoteric call. This is Borderlands meets that game YOU love that everyone else feels falls short.
It's also a great game. A great game somewhat obscured by some fairly severe issues, that I suspect will never be quite realised for what it should have been for a couple of years, when the fans are done fixing it. But I also suspect that there will be such fans, because it's a game that deserves them.
This isn't the game of that trailer. It isn't the frantic survival simulation many were hoping for. On an island where resources are essentially infinite, and cupboards respawn contents if you only go away for long enough, you can forget the lonely, desperate struggle that many (including us) had hoped the game would be. But its not being those things doesn't mean it isn't something else. And what it is, is a huge, dumb and intriguing game full of more gore than the combined works of Troma.
Playable as a solo game (which is how I approached it) or with up to four players in a team, you and your potential buddies are stranded on a large holiday resort island, which is ever-so-slightly populated by zombies. It turns out that you are one of very few people who are immune to the bite of the undead. You can still be injured or killed by them, but you won't become one of them. And that makes you special. It also means that you're the person everyone's going to ask to do their odd jobs for them.
Beginning on a beach resort, you're quickly gathering side quests, alongside main missions to reach a nearby lighthouse and another collection of survivors, while brutally caving in the skulls and ribcages of anything that walks with a shuffle.
Weapons are mostly found, and then augmented. A baseball bat, once you've discovered the modding details, can become the basis for a motorised spinning blade on the end of a club, for instance. The parts necessary are scattered about the island in bins and bags, or in the pockets of your victims, and can then be combined on workbenches scattered in the various safe zones. Each weapon very rapidly degrades, meaning they must be used judiciously, with repairs extremely expensive.
That's combined with your own frailty. You're pretty tough, as it goes (somewhat dependent on which character you picked and their personal skills), but you're still human. Stamina plays a massively important role, meaning you can't just endlessly swing a weighty axe into the faces on the oncoming hordes forever and ever. In fact, you'll get tired extremely quickly if you play this way. Instead you must fight wisely, aiming your blows carefully, and using your equipment cunningly. For instance, randomly thwacking at a zomb is not nearly as effective as sweeping their legs out from under them with your mace, then brutally stamping their head in when they hit the ground. Your weapon lasts longer, and so do you.
Missions make sense for the setting. Someone may ask you to find a trapped loved one, kill an undead family member, or recover their teddy bear. Er, it's quite a creepy adult women who asks for that one. And while you can spend too much time traipsing between them, there's generally an awful lot to do.
Right, that's the framework, here's what actually happens:
I think it works. I think it works well. Except for, well, all the things that don't work so well. I'm good at this writing lark. But the most important thing is, despite the collection of issues, despite the dumb decisions and leaden movement, I've thoroughly enjoyed playing it. I want to play it more. Although that's not to say that I don't have lots to complain about.
I think the most significant, immediate, and constant failing for me is the movement. It's so, so sluggish. Oddly it gets sprint right where most games get it terribly wrong – you can run for a good distance, with the clever expense of meaning when you encounter some bads, your stamina will be lower for the fight. But the general air of the game is one of walking in custard, flinging your limbs around as if they're bags on sand on the end of rope. And this becomes most frustrating when you sidestep. Walking forward goes at a slightly too slow pace, but dare to hit A or D and you'll grind to a crawl. Which, you could quite reasonably argue, is realistic. Walking sideways does slow you down, after all. But let's just say that Dead Island isn't a game that lets realism trouble it all too often.
Good lord, it's weird. This is a world in which it costs over $1000 to fix a broken baseball bat. Who is charging this money is never explained, and exactly what it's being spent on is never made clear. But so it is that when it comes to repairing your favourite augmented weapon, the bill can be staggering. It's damned strange enough that people are selling you the bare essentials for survival as it is. After all, you're the only person who dares to go outside, and you're working to save their lives. But still, they want over $3000 for that machete they have. But that you have to pay money to fix or upgrade your equipment is mind-boggling.
Of course, it's a way to force more careful resource management. Money arrives from all over, in this peculiar parody of capitalism, with about half the zombies you kill carrying a pile of dosh, much more to be found in discarded suitcases, and then large wads of the stuff handed to you in return for completing quests. "But, if you'd just stop valuing your money in such a weird way during this apocalypse, this would be so much easier for everyone" I lecture the game.
Things get even more strange in your inventory. You are capable of carrying about ten weapons at the start, with more slots unlockable should you spend your skill points on levelling up on such things. But then you can also carry infinity bits and bobs for the recipes. Apart from bottles of alcohol, that take up a weapon slot. Even though they've visibly smaller than the bottles of water, of which you can carry hundreds. Sure, games and their inventories have always been bizarre, but here it really seems to go out of its way to be unhelpful. And perhaps I'm just Earth's greatest genius, but I'm not convinced I need to collect a set of instructions to know how to drive some nails into the end of a baseball bat.
Perhaps a more serious issue appears in the combat, which is for the most part absolutely brilliant. Sluggish, yes, but the enforced thought that's required to survive a crowd of zombies makes for something so much more interesting than the average first-person melee game. I love deliberately aiming my cleaver at the arms of one of the tougher baddies, a Thug, so he's got nothing left to punch me with. And in the game. And wow, is it gory. So very, very gory.
I cannot remember a game this gruesome, and really any argument that gaming hasn't desensitised me to fantasy violence is proven as nonsense by my willingness to tolerate the horror before me. As I'm deliberately slicing off the head of a fallen former-human, such that the neck stump gushes forth with vile, congealed blood, the viscera-smeared face rolling away in a fixed grimace of pain, I do wonder what's become of me, and society. Then I do it again. Combined with the wonderfully hideous sound effects (so bad my squeamish fiancée left the room before she'd even looked at the screen, and even my cat became too upset by it all to sleep on my desk as I played), this is the most remarkable display of grotesquery I've seen.
Annoyingly, later on it starts to be a bit cheaty. On a micro scale, enemies seem to be able to hit you despite your clearly having hit them first, or reach you despite your having backed off considerably. Which if it's a killing blow feels needlessly unfair. On a macro scale, the strange choice has been made to have the zombies level to match you, no matter where you go. Clearly this makes for a fair fight as you progress, and you'll not encounter an area you're not ready for yet if you choose to explore. But it also means that returning to those opening resort beaches to mop up a missed quest offers no satisfaction whatsoever. Heading back at level 20, I was really keen to give those level 1s to 15s what for. But the dead bastards were all 20 and 21 now, and I was offered no sense of having progressed or improved.
However, there's a decent mix of zombie types, which at least keeps things more interesting. Walkers do exactly that (while also offering the entertainment of seeing my name above the monstrous rotting carcass of a bikini-clad horror), and will stumble menacingly, then freaking you out by lunging forward and grabbing you by the lapels. The Infected, who troublingly look more human, sprint. And they sprint fast, from around corners, while screaming. Timing the swing of a larger weapon becomes essential, or they'll take a chunk out of you. There are Thugs, bigger boys who take much more tactical attacks. And there are the straight-jacketed beasts who ram into you, sending you flying. And so on.
It's probably important to note that the review code I was working on is clearly not the same as the accidentally released dev code that came out in the States this week, and I've not found it to be a particularly buggy affair. There have been a couple of strange error messages popping up, but neither actually crashed the game nor seemed to make a difference. And while vehicles seem to be a bit prone to getting wedged in between the scenery, beyond this it's seemed impressively stable.
And gosh, it's beautiful. The island looks incredible with the PC settings cranked up, only spoilt by an unnecessarily short draw distance for grass textures. Water and fire are clearly shortcuts, which again is a bit of a shame, but otherwise it really does look spectacular. Which makes walking through the soup of victims' body parts at the end of a larger fight all the more stomach-turning.
Back to my initial marriage. The Borderlands comparison is because this really is incredibly similar in design. Four-player co-op that scales down to solo, with hub-based quests, moddable weapons, and RPG skill trees and XP. The other reference is more… metaphorical. For me it was Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines. While what I've encountered (to what I think may be only the midway point after about 15-20 hours of playing) has certainly not offered anything of the extraordinary writing, twists and intelligence of Redemption, and indeed hasn't collapsed into unfinished madness (there's still time), I can't help but shake that sense that this is a game that will be much misunderstood, and horribly underappreciated.
That initial cinematic, the backward video of the death of the child, was always going to be something Dead Island couldn't live up to. What's good is that it doesn't try. It's sombre in places, and some of the quests are pretty tragic in tone, but it's ultimately about plunging electrified cleavers into the screeching faces of recently revitalised corpses. While you perhaps spend too long in each hub, with different areas looking extremely similar, there are so many side quests being thrown at you that there's always something to be doing. The map will intricately guide you to wherever you need to be, and there's even fast travel between hubs for when you get sick of traipsing down the same streets.
For once here's a game where I want to stick a score on the end of the review, just to make it clear that the 5s and 6s it's been receiving are plain wrong. There's enormous ambition here, and much of it is realised. It's on a huge scale, extremely involved, and for all its illogical inconsistency it holds itself together well.
And that's just the single-player. Like Borderlands, I find myself actually wanting to play with other people – a feeling so rare to me I wonder if I'm coming down with something.


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Ruby on Rails vs PHP
According to the official website, "PHP is an open source general-purpose scripting language that is especially suited for web development and can be embedded into HTML". PHP was created by Rasmus Lerdorf, a Danish-Canadian programmer, and first released in 1995. The three-letter name originally stood for Personal Home Page, but it's now a recursive initialism for PHP: Hypertext Preprocessor.
One fascinating thing about PHP is the fact that the language was developed without a written formal specification until 2014, in stark contrast to Ruby on Rails, which is heavily standardized, emphasizing the convention over configuration principle.
PHP is generally considered to be easier than Ruby and Ruby on Rails, and it also has a larger user base as well as more learning resources. On the other hand, the automated approach to software development embraced by Rails leads to faster deployment speeds and greater development joy.
What Is Ruby on Rails Used for?
Today, Ruby on Rails is one of the most popular frameworks for building complex, scalable web applications. In GitHub's Octoverse 2016, Ruby ranked as the fourth most popular language used on GitHub, with Python stealing its place among the top three most popular languages by a very small margin.
Ruby on Rails is widely popular in Silicon Valley, adopted by some of the most successful startups that have emerged during the pay several years. The large collection of third-party libraries and focus on test automation means that both startups and everybody else can create powerful applications and deliver more features in less time.
Some of the most prominent startups that are using Ruby on Rails include Airbnb, Basecamp, GitHub, Twitch, and Kickstarter, just to name a few.
How to Learn Ruby on Rails?
Ruby on Rails is a fantastic first programming language for aspiring web developers. Thanks to the collective effort of its massive community, there's no shortage of excellent tutorials, books, and other resources that you can use to go from a beginner to pro in a record time.
To get you started, we've put together a list of Ruby on Rails learning resources, curated to suit a variety of different learning styles. If one approach to teaching how to develop web applications using Ruby on Rails ends up not working for you, don't waste your time and just move onto a different one.
Best Ruby on Rails Tutorials
Online Ruby on Rails tutorials are perfect for those who like the convenience of hyperlinks and easily copiable code snippets. Popular tutorials are frequently updated to reflect the feedback their authors receive from the community, ensuring they are always up to date and free of errors.
Rails Guides: Getting Started with Rails
Getting Started with Rails from Rails Guides is an always-up-to-date, in-depth tutorial that covers everything from Ruby on Rails installation to application creation to the basic principles of the MVC (Model, View, Controller) software architecture pattern and much more. When you finish it, you can transition to more advanced tutorials from Rails Guides with just a few mouse clicks. This tutorial is best suited for someone who already has some programming experience or is willing to do some Googling on the side.
The Odin Project
The purpose of The Odin Project is to empower aspiring web developers to learn in a shared, interactive environment by following a proven path to learning success, instead of wasting time doing random stuff that doesn't lead anywhere. The Ruby on Rails course created by Odin's expert educators starts with an introduction to Sinatra, a lightweight Rails framework, and, lesson-by-lesson, builds you up until you not only understand what Rails is all about but can create software that's actually useful.
What started as a way to learn web development and the problem-solving strategies behind it has evolved into one of the most comprehensive training programs for Rails developers, helping over 12,000 developers improve their Ruby on Rails skills. GoRails is a paid learning environment with a private Slack channel where members can network and exchange ideas, a comprehensive database of screencasts that dive into many different areas of building web apps, and a sophisticated progress tracking to keep members motivated.
RubyMonk takes a zen approach to teaching Ruby. Well, not really, but it does have some comforting Buddhist pictures. What it also does have is a full Rails course that starts with an introduction to Ruby objects and continues through arrays, methods, strings, hashes, lambdas, and blocks all the way to control structures, classes and object-oriented programming, and modules. When you finish the course, you will have all the background knowledge you need to dive head first into Ruby on Rails without stumbling all the time.
Rails for Zombies
Rails for Zombies is an interactive, online Ruby on Rails tutorial that doesn't take itself too seriously, which only makes it more inviting. Rails for Zombies is broken down into several levels. Each level begins with a short video lesson that explains all the concepts touched upon in the level. Fun challenges help you solidify your knowledge, and zombie-themed badges serve as rewards for your efforts. The creators of Rails for Zombies recommend TryRuby.org to those who don't have any experience with the Ruby language, but you can also use the above-recommended Ruby tutorial, RubyMonk.
Best Ruby on Rails Books
Some people prefer to learn from an authoritative book written by a reputable expert with years of industry experience under their belt, instead of various community-created tutorials. If you count yourself among those people, our selection of best Ruby on Rails books is just what you need to embark on a learning journey that ends with you mastering one of the most popular web application frameworks in existence.
The Ruby on Rails Tutorial by Michel Hartl
What Michel Hartl created is more than yet another Ruby on Rails book. It's a complete Rails course with hundreds of pages of astonishingly well-written learning material, hours and hours of screencasts and video lessons, engaging exercises coupled with in-depth solutions, and a devout community of graduates of the course. Hartl offers this wealth of Ruby on Rails learning material from $29 per month, making it accessible to virtually everyone. This work of monumental proportions is something you don't want to miss if you're just starting out learning Rails from the ground up.
The Well-Grounded Rubyist by David A. Black
Aimed at newcomers as well as developers with some Ruby on Rails experience under their belts, The Well-Grounded Rubyist by David Black is widely praised for its colorful writing style that transforms what would otherwise be a wonderfully comprehensive Ruby on Rails course into a real page-turner. The book starts with basic Ruby foundations that every Rails programmer should be familiar with, continues through built-in classes and modules, and finishes with Ruby dynamics.
The Ruby Programming Language by David Flanagan and Yukihiro Matsumoto
All Rails developers can benefit from some knowledge of Ruby. Some get by with just the basics, while others want to learn as much as humanly possible. If you count yourself among the second group, The Ruby Programming Language from David Flanagan and Yukihiro Matsumoto is what you need to satisfy your thirst for knowledge. This thick book documents the Ruby language as definitively as the official language specification but without the same formality.
Rails: Novice to Ninja by Glenn Goodrich
Let's face it: who wouldn't want to be a Rails ninja? Just imagine how a title like that would look on your resume, and how many free drinks it would get you at the club. Well, the second part might be a bit far-fetched. The truth is, though, that with Glenn Goodrich's book, you can become an actual Ruby on Rails ninja! The book takes an easy-to-follow approach that keeps the material progressing at a breezy pace. Goodrich requires readers to understand HTML and some CSS, but that shouldn't be an obstacle for most people who want to learn Rails.
Practical Object-Oriented Design in Ruby by Sandi Metz
This well-written book by Sandi Metz addresses one of Ruby's biggest downsides: long-term maintainability. In Practical Object-Oriented Design in Ruby, Metz explores how well executed object-oriented design can lead to better applications and lower development costs. Admittedly, intermediate and advanced Ruby on Rails developers can learn the most from a book of this caliber, but even relative beginners can benefit from reading certain chapters.
Essential Ruby on Rails Tools
Ruby Version Manager (RVM) is a command-line tool maintained by a community of volunteers, allowing developers to install, manage, and work with multiple Ruby environments. It's possible to install RVM on most UNIX-like systems and Windows. RVM Windows requires either Cygwin or the Windows Subsystem for Linux, which is available from the Windows Store. For many years, RVM was the only way to manage multiple versions of Ruby on a single development machine. But even though we now have many other similar tools, RVM has retained much of its relevance to this day.
RubyInstaller for Windows
RubyInstaller for Windows is a self-contained installer for the Windows operating system that includes the Ruby language, an execution environment, documentations, and other useful things. Installing RubyInstaller for Windows is easy: select which version you would like to install from the official download page, download the installer, and follow a series of simple steps to install the software on your computer. If you decide to go with the latest Ruby version, you may discover some stability issues, which is why the developers of RubyInstaller for Windows recommend downloading an older version.
All developers can benefit from excellent Ruby version managers. Homebrew is widely considered to be the best package manager for the macOS operating system because it makes very complicated tasks simple. It automatically resolves dependencies, aids with source code configuration, takes care of compilation, and manages updates.
In this day and age, software security is not to be taken lightly. Malicious hackers release new, devastating strains of malware into the wild every day, and large-scale, targeted attacks are making the headlines on a regular basis. Brakeman is an automatic vulnerability scanner for Ruby on Rails applications. It applies statistical analysis on application source code to discover security issues and programming errors. Brakeman is also available as a commercial software with a convenient graphical user interface.
Sublime Text
Sublime Text is a splendid, snappy text editor with a sleek user interface, support for plugins, a ton of useful features, and an excellent community behind it. With Sublime Text, you can search across multiple documents at once, get the most out of your desktop or laptop monitor with split editing support, write without distracting menu bars, and customize just about every aspect of the editor to your heart's content. Ruby and Ruby on Rails are, of course, fully supported, and many developers have detailed their experience with using Sublime Text for Rails development.
Disk Drill
We've placed Disk Drill at the end of this section because its use extends far beyond Rails development. Disk Drill is a premium data recovery suite for Windows and macOS computers. When working on an important project, the last thing you want is to lose days or weeks or even months of hard work due to a catastrophic hard drive failure or an astronomical user error.
Disk Drill can recover over 200 file formats, including the source files of your Rails projects. Data recovery with Disk Drill is easy, yet the software features highly sophisticated data recovery algorithms capable of handling even the most challenging data recovery scenarios.
Other Useful Ruby on Rails Resources
The world of Ruby on Rails is constantly moving forward, generating new, interesting ideas, tools, discussions, and developments. Keeping up with everything that happens in this world is a daunting task. We guarantee that you'll find it much easier to stay informed if you bookmark the following websites and consume their content with every meal.
The Official Ruby on Rails Blog
The official Ruby on Rails blog is the best place to visit to keep up with Rails updates and official news. All posts get to the point without wasting your time, and the layout of the blog is clean and functional.
Rails Documentation
Reading descriptions of Rails APIs isn't everyone's cup of tea, but that's what it sometimes takes to develop a groundbreaking web application using Ruby on Rails. Out of all the places where you can find documented Rails APIs, the official API docs are still the best.
RubyGems is more than an excellent package manager for the Ruby programming language that provides a standard format for distributing Ruby programs and libraries. It's also a leading gem hosting service, where you can find interesting gems using advanced search filters.
Produced by Ryan Bates, RailsCasts is a monthly Ruby on Rails podcast that features useful tips and tricks, new gems, best practices, interviews with interesting guests, and more. What's best, all podcasts are sorted into categories, making it easy to quickly find the content you're looking for.
Ruby Weekly
If you lack time to follow every Ruby news website and blog and would, instead, prefer to see only the most noteworthy news and articles, Ruby Weekly is just what you need. This once–weekly round-up of Ruby news and articles is free, delivered right to your inbox, and trusted by some of the most recognized Ruby and Rails developers.
RubyFlow is a Ruby and Rails community linklog, where people post the most interesting links related to their favorite language and web-development framework.
You better be sure that there's a subreddit dedicated solely to Ruby on Rails. /r/rails is an excellent place for discussion, networking, and sharing of interesting news related to Rails.


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Do you have Windows XP Service Pack 1? If you do, you can just uninstall Windows Media Player 9.
HELP! I've just upgraded my windows media player to version 9 and i'm desperate to downgrade it back down to 6. How do I do that?
Do you have Windows XP Service Pack 1? If you do, you can just uninstall Windows Media Player 9.
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You cant get any old versions of WMP on XP
You can run older versions of WMP on all versions of Windows. Currently, i have 6.4 installed with 9.
Just keep your older version in another folder, example, C:\Program Files\Windows Med Pla 64, if you want to make sure they don't overlap each other.
Supposively, XP comes with 6.4. You have to run "mplayer2" (no quotes) in the Start - Run box. Worked on my Windows 98 SE machine just fine.
I would downgrade to Windows Media Player 7 if Windows Media Player 9 is giving you problens.
Yup, WMP 6.4 does come with XP, just go to C:\Program Files\Windows Media Player
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How do I set up my product for the fastest printing?
If printing becomes slow, try these solutions:
- Make sure your system meets the requirements for your operating system. If you are printing a high-resolution image, you may need more than the minimum requirements. If necessary, increase your system's memory.
- If you are using Windows 7, close the Devices and Printers window before you print.
- Make sure Quiet Mode is turned off.
- Clear space on your hard drive or run a defragmentation utility to free up existing space.
- Close any programs you are not using when you print.
- If your product is connected to a USB hub, connect it directly to your computer instead.
- If printing becomes slower after printing continuously for a long time, the product may have automatically slowed down to protect the print mechanism from overheating or becoming damaged. Let the product rest with the power on for 30 minutes, then try printing again.
- If you are printing over a wireless network, factors such as interference, network traffic, or weak signal strength may affect your printing speed.
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For the fastest printing, select the following settings in your product software:
- Make sure the paper type setting matches the type of paper you loaded.
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If printing is still slow and you are using Windows 7 or Windows Vista, try the following:
- Click and select Computer or My Computer. Double-click the C: drive and open these folders: ProgramData > EPSON > PRINTER.
Note: If you do not see the ProgramData folder, open the Organize menu and select Folder and search options. In the window that appears, click the View tab, select Show hidden files, folders, and drives in the Advanced settings list, and click OK.
- Right-click the EPAUDF01.AUD file and select Delete.
- Restart your computer and try printing again.
Selecting Basic Print Settings - Windows
Selecting Extended Settings - Windows
Selecting Basic Print Settings - Mac
Related references
Paper or Media Type Settings - Printing Software
Windows System Requirements
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