Nick Tonkin writes: > Obviously you (or ORA) _are_ competing with "mod_perl Developer's > Cookbook" ... > > If ORA wanted to cover mod_perl they should not have let Geoff & co. get > away to another publisher.
Actually, we do cover mod_perl--we published the Eagle book, "Writing Apache Modules ..." way back in 1999. We have Stas and Eric's book coming out in 2003 (March? April?). It busts my nut that we didn't publish Geoff's, Randy's, and Paul's book, but that's the way the dice fall. There's no way that 20 recipes in the Perl Cookbook will compete with the what, 250? in the mod_perl Developer's Cookbook. Especially when the introduction and each recipe points the reader to the mpDC. The Perl Cookbook has over a hundred thousand readers. I want to push as many as I can onto the mpDC. If that's competing, then I can only say that you have a strange sense of competition :-) If we were going to compete head-to-head with the "mod_perl Developer's Cookbook", O'Reilly would publish the "mod_perl Cookbook". We've done it before (PHP Cookbook vs PHP Developer's Cookbook). We don't have plans to do that, and I'd fight them if we did. Geoff et al.'s book is very good, and I want to help their sales not hurt them. > Trying now to cover highly complex topics like "Authenticating in > mod_perl" in a recipe in a chapter of the Perl cookbook is > futile. It will only serve to oversimplify and lead novices into a > false sense of competence. The Perl Cookbook has never pretended to be the definitive guide to anything it covers (have you seen the Perl Cookbook? I recommend it :-). Each recipe includes references to definitive sources of information (manpages, web sites, and other books). Nat
