News You Can Bruise for 2006 March 12

The first draft of the Ruby Cookbook is almost done! I still have to edit three contributed recipes, one of which won't be delivered until tomorrow. But I'm done writing recipes. Now I begin rewriting them.

I redid the outline so it shows the reviewer coverage of the various recipes. I'm also working on a script that grabs the code snippets out of the recipes, runs them, and sees the results match what it says in the book. That one's a little tricker.

If you've been wondering what it is the companies who sponsor the Starslip Crisis RSS feed actually make: it's this stuff. I especially like the "Neutron Simulator", and the "Beam". I picture the neutron simulator as being basically a big piece of radioactive chalk. As for the beam...