Re: Books
At 09:26 AM 4.4.2001 +0100, Dave Cross wrote: Wanderering around Charing Cross Road last night I picked up a couple of new Perl books, "Writing CGI Applications with Perl" by Kevin Meltzer Brent Michalski and "Instant Perl Modules" by Doug Sparling and Frank Wiles. Heh, check out _Perl How to Program_ by P. J. Deitel et al.: http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0130284181/qid=986392068/sr=1-13/ref=sc_b_14/103-2989877-5270228 The cover blurb is great: "Perl How To Program Introducing CGI and Python" nack. According to Amazon: Customers who bought titles by P. J. Deitel also bought titles by these authors: Bruce Eckel David Cross Kevin Meltzer Martin Brown Ed Peschko Hmm. Speaking of author David Cross, I'm told that SoftPro books (mostly a tech stuff store) in Burlington.ma.us has sold 17 copies of your book over February and March, as compared to roughly 3x as many copies of the Camel book. Not bad, considering how many Perl books are out there by now. Just so's you know. -- Chris Devers [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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On Wed, Apr 04, 2001 at 09:26:02AM +0100, dcross - David Cross wrote: Wanderering around Charing Cross Road last night I picked up a couple of new Perl books, "Writing CGI Applications with Perl" by Kevin Meltzer Brent Michalski and "Instant Perl Modules" by Doug Sparling and Frank Wiles. That second one has an *excellent* acknowledgements page... :-) dha -- David H. Adler - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://www.panix.com/~dha/ "I have no idea what that is. Thank goodness we didn't order three!" - some nameless induhvidual quoted in Dilbert Newsletter 31.0
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At 19:01 04/04/2001, David H. Adler wrote: On Wed, Apr 04, 2001 at 09:26:02AM +0100, dcross - David Cross wrote: Wanderering around Charing Cross Road last night I picked up a couple of new Perl books, "Writing CGI Applications with Perl" by Kevin Meltzer Brent Michalski and "Instant Perl Modules" by Doug Sparling and Frank Wiles. That second one has an *excellent* acknowledgements page... :-) Heh! I know, I saw it :) Dave... [wondering how he gets to be a technical editor] -- http://www.dave.org.uk SMS: [EMAIL PROTECTED] plugData Munging with Perl http://www.manning.com/cross//plug
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On Wed, Apr 04, 2001 at 07:15:04PM +0100, Dave Cross wrote: Dave... [wondering how he gets to be a technical editor] My experience suggests it may have something to do with being in the right place at the right time... :) dha -- David H. Adler - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://www.panix.com/~dha/ I shall \0x0D - Nathan Roberts
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Dave... [wondering how he gets to be a technical editor] My experience suggests it may have something to do with being in the right place at the right time... :) Same goes for authoring -:)
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On Wed, Apr 04, 2001 at 01:58:22PM -0500, Doug Sparling wrote: Dave... [wondering how he gets to be a technical editor] My experience suggests it may have something to do with being in the right place at the right time... :) Same goes for authoring -:) Oh, and about the editing - The authors just start following you *everywhere*... :-) dha -- David H. Adler - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://www.panix.com/~dha/ "Hey you! Don't watch dat! Watch thees! This is the heavy, heavy monster sound!" - Madness
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At 19:58 04/04/2001, Doug Sparling wrote: Dave... [wondering how he gets to be a technical editor] My experience suggests it may have something to do with being in the right place at the right time... :) Same goes for authoring -:) Oh, I know that :) Dave... -- http://www.dave.org.uk SMS: [EMAIL PROTECTED] plugData Munging with Perl http://www.manning.com/cross//plug
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From: Philip Newton [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 08 January 2001 14:53 David Hodgkinson wrote: Kieran Barry [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: And anyway, computing by publisher is getting a lot better. You just browse O'Reilly, Addison Wesley and Prentice Hall. Heretic. Manning publish Conway's OO Perl book. And Dave's "I got to use 'Munging' in a book title" book, no? Yep (well in a couple of weeks time :) Dave... -- The information contained in this communication is confidential, is intended only for the use of the recipient named above, and may be legally privileged. If the reader of this message is not the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any dissemination, distribution or copying of this communication is strictly prohibited. If you have received this communication in error, please re-send this communication to the sender and delete the original message or any copy of it from your computer system.
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Kieran Barry [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Thu, 4 Jan 2001, David H. Adler wrote: On Thu, Jan 04, 2001 at 01:59:05PM +, David Hodgkinson wrote: Struan Donald [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: er, what's wrong with foyles if it's not a silly question? Insane filing system They (used to, at least) file their Science Fiction (and some other sections) by publisher rather than author or even title. Good luck finding a book if you don't know the publisher... The computing section is somewhat more sane these days. And anyway, computing by publisher is getting a lot better. You just browse O'Reilly, Addison Wesley and Prentice Hall. Heretic. Manning publish Conway's OO Perl book. -- Dave Hodgkinson, http://www.hodgkinson.org Editor-in-chief, The Highway Star http://www.deep-purple.com Apache, mod_perl, MySQL, Sybase hired gun for, well, hire -
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* at 04/01 13:26 + David Hodgkinson said: It took me three bookshops on Charing Cross Road to get a perl library together for the guys I'm working with, but I managed it without having to go into Foyle's. Yeah! er, what's wrong with foyles if it's not a silly question? s -- Struan Donald mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Code Flunky, 365 Plc. http://www.365corp.com/
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David Hodgkinson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Struan Donald [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: * at 04/01 13:26 + David Hodgkinson said: It took me three bookshops on Charing Cross Road to get a perl library together for the guys I'm working with, but I managed it without having to go into Foyle's. Yeah! er, what's wrong with foyles if it's not a silly question? Insane filing system Legendarily unhelpful staff Much better than it was now the old lady's gone. Heck, they even have barcode scanners now... It smells funny Hmm... can't say I'd noticed that, but I have a cold. -- Piers
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* Michael Stevens ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: On Thu, Jan 04, 2001 at 01:59:05PM +, David Hodgkinson wrote: er, what's wrong with foyles if it's not a silly question? Insane filing system Legendarily unhelpful staff It smells funny I spent several minutes once trying to teach one of the staff in their computing section how to spell the word 'silicon'. So he could put it into their computer and find the book I wanted, for which I knew both title and author. That was Sili of you -- Greg McCarroll http://www.mccarroll.uklinux.net
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From: Struan Donald [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 04 January 2001 14:50 * at 04/01 13:26 + David Hodgkinson said: It took me three bookshops on Charing Cross Road to get a perl library together for the guys I'm working with, but I managed it without having to go into Foyle's. Yeah! er, what's wrong with foyles if it's not a silly question? Typical customer enquiry in Foyles: Customer: Can you tell me where your books on [insert random subject] are? Foyles Bod: Who are they published by? C: Huh? FB: All of our books are classified by publisher. We find that's easier for finding a specific book. C: But I don't know what book I want. I just want to look at all of the books on [insert random subject] and compare them. FB: Then you'll have to visit each publisher's section indiviudally. C (mutters to self): Or I could just go next door to Waterstones. Dave... The information contained in this communication is confidential, is intended only for the use of the recipient named above, and may be legally privileged. If the reader of this message is not the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any dissemination, distribution or copying of this communication is strictly prohibited. If you have received this communication in error, please re-send this communication to the sender and delete the original message or any copy of it from your computer system.
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On Thu, Jan 04, 2001 at 03:10:24PM +, Greg McCarroll wrote: That was Sili of you On the plus side, They Have Lots Of Books, which makes up for almost all their faults.
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On Thu, Jan 04, 2001 at 01:26:25PM +, David Hodgkinson wrote: It took me three bookshops on Charing Cross Road to get a perl library together for the guys I'm working with, but I managed it without having to go into Foyle's. Yeah! The bonus was a second edition of Jon Bentley's "Programming Pearls". A classic. Aha, you've left yourself open to pedants here: ... Is that 2nd edition as in with updates? Or as in "Reprinted with corrections May, 1989"? If the first, what's the difference? Is it worth getting it if you've already got 1.ed? Also, are you going to get them "More Programming Pearls, Confessions of a Coder" as well? -- Chris Benson
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On Thu, Jan 04, 2001 at 01:59:05PM +, David Hodgkinson wrote: Struan Donald [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: er, what's wrong with foyles if it's not a silly question? Insane filing system They (used to, at least) file their Science Fiction (and some other sections) by publisher rather than author or even title. Good luck finding a book if you don't know the publisher... dave, has had issues w/foyles for many years... -- David H. Adler - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://www.panix.com/~dha/ Uh, yeah. Well, that's my mistake for the year... - Larry Wall
