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I'm having a great time at RubyConf 2005, in San Diego. The talks have been quite good. One real stand-out was Jim Wierich's talk on domain-specific languages. Not only was the topic well-explored, but he included a juggling demonstration (a skill he acquired, he says, while waiting for C compilation cycles to finish).
After the afternoon session I got a chance to announce the official launch of Ruby Code & Style (and a shout out to Austen Ziegler for mentioning the zine four or five times in his excellent presentation on PDF::Writer). I've been approached by a number of people at the conference interested in writing for the 'zine, which is very encouraging.
For anyone considering submitting an article, here's the basic info:
If you have not yet written the article, first write a proposal and send it to me, at james dot britt at gmail dot com. Describe, in one or two paragraphs, what you plan to cover in your piece. I'll go over it with my fellow editors and board members and we'll see if might make for a good topic. Generally speaking, we're looking for more or less hardcore technical Ruby material, the sort of stuff that is a bit hard to find right now, but that can mean different things to different people, and it isn't the only criteria.
Articles should be around 2500 words; take a look at the current issue to get an idea of what that is.
It seems to work well when content is submitted in either MS Word or OpenOffice Writer format. The content will get marked up in a form of custom HTML in preparation for publication, but the Word or Writer format makes it easer to track revisions among numerous reviewers. Absent that, plain text is best.
The publication schedule is a bit loose right now; if you are concerned with having your work published by some date, please let me know. The primary considerations are having sufficient high-quality material, and sufficient time among the advisory board to do proper reviews, so it is hard to make too many promises.
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