@Andy: Thank you, thank you, thank you very much for that book! It _really_ helped get me going in CouchDB. I particularly like the code illustrations with the hand written notes overlaid. Very cool :-)
On Wed, Nov 13, 2013 at 1:55 PM, Andy Wenk <[email protected]> wrote: > On 13 November 2013 18:14, Filippo Fadda <[email protected] > >wrote: > > > Of course, it's an useful resource, like almost all the other books on > the > > subject are. And it's free, that's a great thing. But I agree with Jens, > > there is not an awesome book out there, and I think the main reason is > that > > writing a book nowadays doesn't repay the author for the effort needed. > > Today you can't live writing technical books, in the past many authors > did, > > so the general books quality is getting lower and you can find a lot of > 30 > > pages books that are not books at all, they just cover badly a subject. > > > > The only reason me an Till wrote the book was because we love CouchDB and > wanted to help people getting starting with it ;-) I totally agree with you > on the fact why the quality of textbooks decreased. > > > > > > On Nov 13, 2013, at 5:39 PM, Andy Wenk wrote: > > > > > I don't want to start a discussion here. Just wanna drop a side note: > > > > > > Please don't forget when this book was written and where CouchDB was at > > > this time. At least the original version was one of the first written > > > documentation available. To understand the basics about CouchDB, I > think > > it > > > is definitely a good choice. > > > > > > Writing a good book is extremely hard and very time consuming (I > > > experienced it twice). So even when it sound harsh what Jens said, I > can > > > imagine, that a lot of people think like that. But also don't forget > for > > > whom these books are written. Newbies or intermediate users - not > > "expert" > > > users or core developers ;-) > > > > > > To come back to the original post, yeah the question was not about a > book > > > ;-) > > > > > > Cheers > > > > > > > > > On 13 November 2013 16:54, Filippo Fadda < > > [email protected]>wrote: > > > > > >> +1 > > >> > > >> On Nov 13, 2013, at 4:41 PM, Jens Alfke wrote: > > >>> (Also, I have to say I’m unsatisfied with that book. It skips around > a > > >> lot, is often unclear, and spends a lot of time on examples as opposed > > to > > >> principles. That said, I haven’t seen any really good books about > > CouchDB.) > > >>> > > >>> —Jens > > >> > > >> > > > > > > > > > -- > > > Andy Wenk > > > Hamburg - Germany > > > RockIt! > > > > > > http://www.couchdb-buch.de > > > http://www.pg-praxisbuch.de > > > > > > GPG fingerprint: C044 8322 9E12 1483 4FEC 9452 B65D 6BE3 9ED3 9588 > > > > > > > -- > Andy Wenk > Hamburg - Germany > RockIt! > > http://www.couchdb-buch.de > http://www.pg-praxisbuch.de > > GPG fingerprint: C044 8322 9E12 1483 4FEC 9452 B65D 6BE3 9ED3 9588 >
