ISBN10: 0672328844, ISBN13: 9780672328848, [publisher: Addison-Wesley Professional] Softcover 839 pages. A guide to Ruby programming covers such topics as strings, regular expressions, symbols and ranges, arrays and hash es, I/O and data storage, and OOP. Editorial Reviews About the Author Hal Fulton has two degrees in computer science from the U niversity of Mississippi. He taught computer science for four yea rs 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, i ncluding 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 applicati ons. He works daily with C++, Oracle, and of course, Ruby. Hal i s still active daily on the Ruby mailing list and IRC channel, an d has several Ruby projects in progress. He is a member of the AC M 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 i nto space before he dies. He ...