Re: [Boston.pm] OT:Safari Bookshelf

2004-01-06 Thread Simon Rosenthal
On Mon January 5 2004 15:27, Dan Sugalski wrote: > At 12:14 PM -0500 1/5/04, Daniel R. Allen wrote: > >Since you asked, I had a few specific criticisms- search heuristics, and a > >couple missing books from the affiliated publishers. > > > >Any chance of installing one of those yellow Google server

RE: [Boston.pm] OT:Safari Bookshelf

2004-01-05 Thread Tolkin, Steve
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Re: [Boston.pm] OT:Safari Bookshelf

2004-01-05 Thread Dan Sugalski
At 12:14 PM -0500 1/5/04, Daniel R. Allen wrote: Since you asked, I had a few specific criticisms- search heuristics, and a couple missing books from the affiliated publishers. Any chance of installing one of those yellow Google servers? :-) I admit I've gotten spoiled; I don't know how Safari sort

Re: [Boston.pm] OT:Safari Bookshelf

2004-01-05 Thread Andy Oram
I think a lot of decisions can be explained by our outsourcing some stages of the development of Safari. Andy ___ Boston-pm mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/boston-pm

Re: [Boston.pm] OT:Safari Bookshelf

2004-01-05 Thread Jerome Giudicelli
this list, have been equating O'Reilly with Perl and Open Source. Jerome -Original Message- From: Andy Oram <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Jan 5, 2004 11:44 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [Boston.pm] OT:Safari Bookshelf I guess I should stop lurking and say thanks for a

Re: [Boston.pm] OT:Safari Bookshelf

2004-01-05 Thread Daniel R. Allen
Since you asked, I had a few specific criticisms- search heuristics, and a couple missing books from the affiliated publishers. Any chance of installing one of those yellow Google servers? :-) I admit I've gotten spoiled; I don't know how Safari sorts the search outputs, but I sometimes found it e

Re: [Boston.pm] OT:Safari Bookshelf

2004-01-05 Thread Andy Oram
I guess I should stop lurking and say thanks for all the kind comments. Anything special that any of you would like me to pass on to people I know on the Safari team? I haven't noticed any specific criticism. Also, if you feel happy enough that you'd like to give a testimonial that we could use in

Re: [Boston.pm] OT:Safari Bookshelf

2004-01-03 Thread Federico Lucifredi
Howdy, I used it in a Harvard Ext School class next year. It was ok, given availability of a printer to get a hardcopy. The idea is actually good, as we would just swap in and out the texts we needed during the semseter, and the printouts are essentialy indistingisheable from a standard O'

Re: [Boston.pm] OT:Safari Bookshelf

2003-12-30 Thread darren chamberlain
* James Freeman [2003/12/30 16:05]: > Anyone on the list have direct experience with O'Reilly's Safari > Bookshelf? +1 (darren) -- In the fight between you and the world, back the world. pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature ___ Boston-pm mailin

RE: [Boston.pm] OT:Safari Bookshelf

2003-12-30 Thread David Pompeo
I've also been subscribed for a while and I'm happy with it. -Original Message- From: Ivanov, Boris [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, December 30, 2003 4:13 PM To: James Freeman; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [Boston.pm] OT:Safari Bookshelf I have been subscribed f

Re: [Boston.pm] OT:Safari Bookshelf

2003-12-30 Thread David Cantrell
James Freeman wrote: Anyone on the list have direct experience with O'Reilly's Safari Bookshelf? Was it worth it? I tried it for a few months. First impressions were good, but I didn't use it as much as I thought I would and eventually cancelled my subscription. Since then, I believe they hav

Re: [Boston.pm] OT:Safari Bookshelf

2003-12-30 Thread Daniel R. Allen
http://mail.pm.org/pipermail/kw-pm/2003-June/000236.html I reviewed it for my (now local) .pm group. Summary: thumbs up. http://kw.pm.org/ - Kitchener-Waterloo Perlmongers - [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://coder.com/ - Prescient Code Solutions - (519) 575-3733 [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Tue, 30 Dec

Re: [Boston.pm] OT:Safari Bookshelf

2003-12-30 Thread Ivanov, Boris
I have been subscribed for a while now and I think it worths the money. Thanks --Boris On Tuesday 30 December 2003 04:05 pm, James Freeman wrote: > Hi Folks, > > Anyone on the list have direct experience with O'Reilly's Safari > Bookshelf? > > Was it worth it? > > Warmest Regards, > > Jim > > ___