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Advanced DSLs in Ruby
Based on the upcoming book I'm co-authoring, delves deep into DSL techniques in Ruby, including fluent interfaces, the finishing problem, syntax checking, sticky attributes, and more. This is an expanded, updated, and shortened version of the QCon tutorial that myself and Martin Fowler did in 2007.

About Neal
Neal Ford is a senior application architect at ThoughtWorks, a global IT consultancy with an exclusive focus on end-to-end software development and delivery. He is the designer and developer of applications, instructional materials, magazine articles, courseware, video/DVD presentations, author of 3 books, including Art of Java Web Development (Manning 2003), and editor/contributor for the 2006 and 2007 editions of the No Fluff, Just Stuff Anthology (Pragmatic Press). He is also an internationally acclaimed speaker, having spoken at numerous developers' conferences worldwide. Check out his web site at www.nealford.com. He welcomes feedback and .

Neal has presented at more than 400 conference presentations at over 50 conferences worldwide, and over 100 conference presentations in 2007 alone. Check out the entire list.

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