Zed Shaw has a very good collection of books titled "Learn X the Hard Way" where X in {Ruby, SQL, Regex, etc}. However it seems that on January 3rd he deleted most of these repos (see https://gitorious.org/~zedshaw and search for "deleted"), the sites look abandoned (see for example this link - http://regex.learncodethehardway.org/book/ex2.html - which contains a lot of "Input file is empty") and the remaining public clones of the book repositories don't seem to contain "buildeable" code.<p>Anyone knows what's happening? Anyone has "correct" copies of these books before the mass-deletion?
You might ask him via Twitter:
<a href="https://twitter.com/zedshaw" rel="nofollow">https://twitter.com/zedshaw</a><p>He's always been very cool about replying to me when I've done similar.