I just finished reading 37signals Getting Real and I think it’s great.

The basic idea of the book is delivering a great and cool web application and make a success of it. They write concise and well, they know what they’re writing about (and that means a lot) havind delivered a long list of successful applications.

They also drive Ruby on Rails (needing no hype by myself). Enough said.

If you want to learn how to write a succesful web application with a small team “Getting Real” is the book. Maybe not the only one out there, but it’s worth it.

And remember:

Everyone can read a book. Everyone can come up with an idea. Everyone has a cousin that’s a web designer. Everyone can write a blog. Everyone can hire someone to hack together some code. The difference between you and everyone else will be how well you execute. Success is all about great execution.

– from Start Your Engines