Long time no see

It's been a couple of months since I've last written, but I assure you there will be much more to read here soon. Some updates and short thoughts:

• The Ruby Cookbook was just recently released. It's huge, and has a lot of useful recipies for all-around ruby hacking. I contributed an adaptation of this old blog post of mine as one of the recipies entitled "Enforcing Software Contracts" on page 367. Hope it helps you all add some metaprogramming sauce to your programs.


• I recently moved out to Seattle, WA to take a job as a Software Development Engineer for Amazon.com as a member of the Community Content team. I'm really enjoying the switch so far, and I'm looking forward to becomming a regular to the seattle.rb events soon as I become more settled. An update to the "About Me" post is coming soon.


• While signing in to write this blog post, I stumbled upon the new Blogger beta. It looks like blogger is finally catching up to the state of the art in blogging platforms. However, the beta still doesnt support publishing to other domains, which is a total dealbreaker for me for now. Hopefully that feature is coming back soon. On another note, the beta supports a new GData powered API.

That's it for now-- more coming soon.