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Method Chaining Part 2 - The comments on my last post about method chaining in JavaScript were spectacular, and I want to publicly thank all who took the time to read my code and think about it. The final version of the code (which you...

Method chaining in JavaScript inheritance hierarchies - In the 5th edition of my JavaScript book I made the embarrassing mistake of recommending a constructor and method chaining technique that only works for shallow class hierarchies--it works when class B extends A, for example, but not when...

Ruby Review Roundup - The Ruby Programming Language has been gratifyingly well received by readers and reviewers. In addition to glowing reviews at rubyinside.com and slashdot.org, it has been reviewed ten times at amazon.com and I proud to say that all ten reviews...

Errata for my Ruby Book - I've put together a list of 81 errors and updates to my Ruby book. These are fixed in the next printing. If you already own a copy of the book, however, you can go through and enter the changes...

Help fix up my book, please - The Ruby Programming Language is going to be reprinted next week, and O'Reilly has given me SVN write access to the docbook files to fix typos, errors, etc. I've got a list of about 25 relatively minor erros that...

Will C++ get Closures before Java does? - I just read that closures are being added to C++ [PDF link]. A note to Sun: you know your language is falling embarrassingly behind if the C++ standards committee can move more nimbly than you can! (For those who...

5 Years in Iraq - Tomorrow marks the 5th anniversary of Bush's war with Iraq. The costs: 3990 US soldiers dead That is more than 2 per day. 20,416 US soldiers wounded (badly enough to require air transport). That's more than 11 per day....

Welcome Slashdot Readers - If you arrived here after reading slashdot's review of The Ruby Programming Language, you've come to the right place. Thanks, Brian, for the kind words! The post below includes links to the book's table of contents and to an...

Finally! - The Ruby Programming Language is finally in stock and shipping from online booksellers! Press Release: actually quite a good overview of the book, who it is for and the niche it hopes to fill. Preview: an interactive table-of-contents, with...

Preview my Ruby book - I've just discovered that the O'Reilly website now displays a browsable table of contents that allows you to preview the start of each chapter and each section of my book. In other book news, Amazon is still listing the...

Examples from my Ruby book now online - All the example code from my Ruby book is now available for download. As I've mentioned before, you can also browse the book's table of contents....

Last day for Amazon's pre-order discount - Amazon continues to say that my Ruby book will be in stock tomorrow. So today is the last day that you can pre-order the book and save an additional 5% on it. As I type this, they're listing it...

Off to the Printer - The Ruby Programming Language was sent to the printer on Friday the 11th, and should be printed and bound on Monday January 21st. This is on schedule. Amazon still says that they expect to start fulfilling orders on January...

Giles Bowkett Replaced by Mindless Fanboy - This post, and its title, is a response to Giles Bowkett's clairvoyant review of my Ruby book. In that review, he says: I am "soulless", my publisher was "really cool once", and that you "sure as hell don't want...