Mauricio Fernandez has written up a very nice, compact and comprehensive list of the changes that are coming in the 1.9 release of Ruby.

While an excellent contribution to those of us who are trying to keep up with the fast pace of development around Ruby, I can't help but feel small in the face of change. There's features going into the Ruby language faster than I can learn them (not that I'd have to use all those features). And that's just Ruby. Then there's this thing called Java with its own set of essential tools and frameworks one simply must grok in order to call himself a professional (yes, I'm talking about Spring and Hibernate;).

Plus, there's the book I should be writing.

And work, of course.

I'll be traveling again for the next couple of weeks, more or less, which means I won't have the time and energy to do much extracurricular stuff like parsing serialized Java objects with Ruby. Or blogging.

On the positive side, there's so much to do these days that I think I'll have to buy some more computing power ;)