From: Jeff Wood <jeff.darklight@...>
Date: 2005-12-15T09:34:59+09:00
Subject: Re: [ANN] Forthcoming 2nd ed. of _The Ruby Way_

... Please be sure to provide it in PDF form... That's how I have my
current edition and I really appreciate it.

j.

On 12/14/05, James Edward Gray II <james@grayproductions.net> wrote:
> On Dec 14, 2005, at 5:03 PM, rubyhacker@gmail.com wrote:
>
> > Hello, all.
> >
> > Thought I might as well announce this "officially" as many people
> > know it already.
> >
> > The ink is dry on the contract, and I am working on a second edition
> > of _The Ruby Way_. Expect to see it second quarter of 2006.
>
> This is just fantastic news.  The old version is quite out of date
> and yet still my second favorite Ruby book!
>
> > Keyword soup:
> > ...csv...
>
> I realize this is tooting my own horn, but it would be great if
> FasterCSV[1] made it in there if only as a footnote.  I know it's not
> a standard library, but it reads and writes just fine and is almost 9
> times faster than the standard library.  This might be important
> since I've seen multiple complaints about CSV speed here and on Ruby
> Core.
>
> I'm also hard at work adding cool new features to it that should be
> in long before the book is ready.  Features not yet is CSV.  :)
>
> End advertisement.  We now return you to your regular programming.
>
> James Edward Gray II
>
> 1:  http://rubyforge.org/projects/fastercsv/
>
>
>


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Jeff Wood