Title: The Ruby Way, Second Edition: Solutions and Techniques in Ruby Programming (Addison-wesley Professional Ruby)
Publisher: Addison-Wesley Professional
Publication Date: 2006
Language: English
ISBN 10: 0672328844
ISBN 13: 9780672328848
Binding: Paperback
Edition: 2nd Edition
Condition: Very Good
Weight: 1225 grams

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A guide to Ruby programming covers such topics as strings, regular expressions, symbols and ranges, arrays and hashes, I/O and data storage, and OOP.

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Hal Fulton has two degrees in computer science from the University of Mississippi. He taught computer science for four years at the community college level before moving to Austin, Texas, for a series of contracts (mainly at IBM Austin). He has worked for more than 15 years with various forms of UNIX, including AIX, Solaris, and Linux. He was first exposed to Ruby in 1999, and in 2001 he began work on the first edition of this book, which was the second Ruby book in the English language. He has attended six Ruby conferences and has given presentations at four of those, including the first European Ruby Conference in Karlsruhe, Germany. He currently works at Broadwing Communications in Austin, Texas, working on a large data warehouse and related telecom applications. He works daily with C++, Oracle, and of course, Ruby.

Hal is still active daily on the Ruby mailing list and IRC channel, and has several Ruby projects in progress. He is a member of the ACM and the IEEE Computer Society. In his personal life, he enjoys music, reading, writing, art, and photography. He is a member of the Mars Society and is a space enthusiast who would love to go into space before he dies. He lives in Austin, Texas.

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