> It's easy Dave, all that is needed is for one to have spent his/her years during
> the RPC -> ORB revolution (with deaths such as ATLAS on the way) doing software
> engineering! Ooops.....
>
> The Edwards/Orfali books aren't bad, despite the silly Martians all over the
> place, but their technical content is quite good.
I don't want to be rude, and I love to hold a book in my hands, but I believe that if
you don't / can't publish a "standard" (or whatever) in a clearly understandable &
complete form _online_ , you are lost.
Nowadays, in these very fast developing times, I don't buy books any more to get known
with a topic. I "learn" the basics on the net, and if I consider it worth knowing, I
might shop for a book on this topic just for the pure joy of reading it in the bathtub
(definitely beats taking the monitor to the spa). I know that most fellow developers
do the same. There are exceptions, but they are very rare.
Ivory tower programmers who still believe in papers and books as _primary_ (or even
unique) distribution channel of knowledge have lost contact to reality.
Horst
