Puneet Kishor writes: > Nathan, I know you are out there. I just wanted to say it in public that > the cookbook is perhaps _the_ most useful perl book for me... much more > so than the other beasts (though the dromedary and the camelid too are > very useful). Most everyday I turn to the cookbook and find my answer there.
Thanks! > Which brings me to a question. The last edition was 4 years ago. Why not > a version 2 with more tips and tricks? I will send advance payment to > reserve a copy. I'm glad you asked that. There's no need for advance payment. I've been working with other editors at O'Reilly to free up my time so that I can work on the second edition. Tom's been doing a lot of the 5.8 updating (no more with the "new in the 5.004 release is ..." claims!) and I'm writing new recipes. I've done four or five on mod_perl so far, and I expect to produce a lot more in the coming weeks. We'll also be fixing all the errata we couldn't justify fixing in the reprints. There'll be new chapters on mod_perl, XML, XS and Inline, threading. and we'll de doing thing things like adding GTk and CocoaPerl to the UI chapter. This all may change if we get in there and can't find 15 things to say about XS and Inline, or suddenly the CocoaPerl stuff falls out into its own chapter, but we'll see. I'm contemplating a chapter of Mac stuff, but wonder whether that'd also oblige me to do a chapter of Windows stuff, which I *don't* want to do :-) Anyway, it's all supposed to be out by OSCON next year. If I go dark in January and February, it's because Tom and I are busting our nuts (uh, working hard) to make it happen. Nat
