Lessons Learned at my SVRC Chronic Talk

Giving talks on your projects is a great way to learn new things. My presentation on Chronic went really well, and I hope everyone in attendance enjoyed it. Here's a few bits I walked away with:

1. There is no 12pm. NO 12PM!!!!!! Don't argue.
2. Christmas is on May 25th
3. Chronic should be able to parse "the first month of sundays"
4. Fortnight support is the key to success

There were definitely some good questions during the talk that have helped me solidify my ideas on certain features. Chronic currently ignores any words that it doesn't recognize, which can lead to successful parses that are actually incorrect. I'll be adding a strict option that will cause a parse to fail unless every word is recognized at least once.

I still need to build out some additional patterns, if you have any requests for missing patterns, file them as feature requests on the Rubyforge Tracker.

Here are the slides in PDF in case you need them: