On (03/17 21:11), Alex J. Avriette wrote: > Additionally, it is rumored that there will be a chapter on poe programming > in the new edition of Advanced Perl Programming.
no rumor. is fact. way back when, there were several of us interested in writing poe books. we talked about writing a big big together. and then seperate books. then we talked to reps at publishers. no one was particularly interested in a poe book (yes even ora. and yes i've talked with gnat). then we realized something. books are great. free stuff is better. in my case, i asked myself the question "why do i want to write this book?" apart from half dreams of being known for something other than annoying the hell out of people, i realized that i simply wanted better poe docs. i wanted poe documentation that was accessible, portable, and easy to understand. so i started the poed project. not a whole lot has come of it (i changed jobs shortly thereafter) but the beginnings of a completely new set of documentation exists in cvs. i would positively buy drinks for people who help bring poed and the man page rewrite to life again. and in time, when the market's ready or whatever, there's nothing saying that we can't just bundle up the new docs we write, clean them up some, and publish those as books :) -- Matt Cashner http://eekeek.org eek at eekeek dot org
