Potted Review
Apologies to the owner of the blog in question, but I couldn't resist the titular pun for this post. Anyhow, they've posted a nice, brief review.
Another Review
Alan Berg has posted a review of the book. For Alan's benefit in particular, may I say 'thank you and good-nee'.
Ruby Passes Coldfusion At Indeed
It may be of interest to some (it certainly is to me in my new job) that Ruby just passed ColdFusion at indeed.com.
Book Progress Update
I just got the first quarter's results through for the book and have been surprised and delighted by how well it's moving. I would like to thank all of those who have bought it and express my gratitude for the many positive and thoughtful e-mails I've received from all over the community. Speaking of which, here's a quick review from Pat Eyler.
First Reviews
This is just a quick post providing links to a couple of nice reviews of the book - a short overview by Joe Topjian and an in-depth account by Hans Fugal.
Ruby IP Address Class Part 2
In part one of this article, we built an IP class that allowed us to treat IP addresses as first class objects rather than the normal practice of getting by with their string representation. In this slightly longer part, we'll emphasise the advantages of using a genuine class as we build in support for IP masking, subnets and ranges.
Ruby IP Address Class Part 1
A lot of the time, when writing scripts that work with IP addresses, the addresses themselves are really just strings with a particular format. I've found that I occasionally get into trouble when pushing this approach too far. In particular, the whole subnet-masking / range-testing issue is rather good for highlighting the point at which a genuine class is preferred. Thus this article is a walkthrough in constructing a basic IpAddress class for Ruby.
Site Blogging Engine Ready
That humming noise is the sound of a really basic blogging engine that now sits underneath the site. It's using a combination of my ultra-simple erb.cgi script, .rhtml files, a YAML backing store and a small ruby script that auto-generates new skeleton posts in TextMate.
Site Development Delayed
The site's development has been on hold for just over a week due to a change of career and some unexpected server downtime. In the mean time, I'm considering some articles to kick off with and so far my favourite idea is a treatise on the Etc module. As ever, send your thoughts to andre-at-domain.
First Post
The hour is close at hand as grizzly ghouls from every ... well you get the idea. After the long twilight of planning, writing, grouting, editing, baking, boiling, proofing and production, PRFSA is finally about to be released into the wild. Specifically, the publishing date is now set at June 25th. As we approach the end of the month, this site will start to grow from a simple book-tarting flyer to a place dedicated to the use of Ruby in the system administration community. At least that's the plan. It all depends on the Jade Monkey.