I don't know where to put this note in this thread so I'll reply to my friend Jon...
What amazes me is that the Pick/MV community seems to be so "anti-book" and "pro-everything-should-be-free", and this is why we haven't seen any new books in this industry for so many years. And yet the fondness and passion for Jon's works seems to be timeless. If people in this community expressed serious interest in new books and other education material for MV, we'd have them. Heck, a windbag like me can cough up a few hundred pages in a weekend. And with a windbag like Jon, well, we could crank out a book over a session at Starbuck's. ;) I've blogged and written forum postings about the lack of books in this market: remove.pleaseNebula-RnD.com/blog/tech/mv/2007/05/mvbooks1.html All we really need is some sense of visible community commitment and I'm sure we would see new/modern books for Pick/MultiValue just like Linux, SQL Server, PHP, Java, C#, Excel, and hundreds of other technical topics - not just from me or maybe Jon but from many other qualified authors in this community. Look at it this way, a lack of MV books can cost you your job, so it may be worth it to support efforts like this. If your company is acquired and/or you get a new CTO, you may hear: "What is this? I can't find a single book on this. We need to replace this with something mainstream." Help foster the creation of a wealth of material and that battle of this war will no longer need to be fought. Thoughts? Tony Gravagno Nebula Research and Development TG@ remove.pleaseNebula-RnD.com Visit PickWiki.com! Contribute! http://Twitter.com/TonyGravagno _______________________________________________ U2-Users mailing list U2-Users@listserver.u2ug.org http://listserver.u2ug.org/mailman/listinfo/u2-users
