On Tue, 31 Oct 2000, you wrote:
> I find some of their books very good (on XML).
noted, .. the HTML 4.0 programmers [sic] guide is ok too. very good
'browser incompatibility' section in the back which is what it mainly
gets used for.
> But their PHP (sorry) one is crrrraaaappp (but then,
> so are O'Reilly's Apache & MySQL books IMO).
ahh .. verily so. The MySQL one is little more than a (IMHO) roundup of
SQL basics and a reprint of the manpages. I was rather hoping to get a
lot more in the way of 'well if you wanted to do this normally you'd do
this .. but MySQL doesn't have subselects so this is the fastest way to
do it ' there was little beyond the basic stuff you get in the docs ..
Apache was similalry disappointing .. a sort of 'me and my mate got it to
work like this' nothing very techie ..really .. some of the HTTPS stuff
was 'sketchy' ... and well, lets just say my copy is in pristine
condition ;)
pity really cos most of the O'Reilly stuff is ace innit ...
current book order <looked up on Amazon, ordered from local vilage
bookshop> is:
OO Perl, damian conway, (manning)[1]
XML pocket ref, OReilly[2]
Learning Java , OReilly
Perl for sysadmins, Oreilly (only cos its got a ferret on it)
eXtreme prog. installed
[1] so that will be my first Manning book .. are they any good?? do they
pass the important test of being the same size as OReilly books??
[2] I thought about buying a bigger book on XML .. but after 'open tags
with <tagname> and close with </tagname> or go <tagname name="value"/>
..well .. that kinda covers it dunnit? .. or have I missed something?
--
Robin Szemeti
The box said "requires windows 95 or better"
So I installed Linux!
