Uploaded trimmed versions of the “Rapid Rails with Hobo” book

We decided to take the last 200+ pages out (Hobo Under the Hood) and make it a separate document. The new Rapid Rails with Hobo is leaner…
PDF: Beta Version 0.9.8.8
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DOCX: Beta Version 0.9.8.8
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“Rapid Rails with Hobo” Draft #10 with Index

This is the first pass at including a significant index of terms in the book…
MS Word Version:
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Tutorial 21 “Replicating the Look and Feel of a Site” in “Rapid Rails with Hobo” reworked

This tutorial uses a real site, http://nifa.usda.gov, as the target look and feel for a Hobo app called “NIFA Demo”.  Tested with Hobo 0.9.0 and all new screenshots.
http://screencast.com/t/YjFhNGQ0OWEt
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Barquin Development at USDA

April was a good month.  REEIS 5.0 and The Leadership Management Dashboard (LMD) 3.0 were released with great acclaim.