[OT] O'Reilly Books Frickin' Rule!!!!

[Chaldfont]

while (<>) {
next if /learn.*21\s+days/i;
if (/o'rielly/i) {
add_to_wish_list($_);
if (/perl/i) {
buy_book($_);
}
}
}
# good indent lost due to message board mark-up mojo

 

[Darkness]

Are these books sci-fi- or fantasy-related?

 

[Chaldfont]

Sorry, got carried away by my job.

O'Reilly is a publishing house specializing in technical books. They put out the best programming books in the biz.

Anyone who publishes both books on MP3s and on Bioinformatics can't be half-bad.

 

[spunky_mutters]

geez, you forgot...

#! /usr/bin/perl -w

and

if(/o'reilly/i) would work better.

But you're right. I'm waiting for Attacks of Opportunity in a Nutshell, and the Prestige Class Cookbook.

 

[Darkness]

Sorry, got carried away by my job.

O'Reilly is a publishing house specializing in technical books. They put out the best programming books in the biz.

Anyone who publishes both books on MP3s and on Bioinformatics can't be half-bad.

Damn - in that case, I guess I can't (or rather, shouldn't ) move this thread to General Sci-Fi/Fantasy Discussion, then...

 

[Chaldfont]

geez, you forgot...

#! /usr/bin/perl -w

and

if(/o'reilly/i) would work better.

But you're right. I'm waiting for Attacks of Opportunity in a Nutshell, and the Prestige Class Cookbook.

Ack! I always transpose those two vowels. Good thing for emacs' Ctrl-t.

But what animals would you put on the cover of AOO in a Nutshell? For some reason, I'm thinking hermit crab.

Wouldn't it be cool if O'Reilly published an annotated SRD.

 

[drothgery]

Eh. O'Reilly books are great for 'learn *nix tool if you're already a programmer' books. But Apress's .NET books are better for the most part, and a surprising number of very good non-tool-specific books are published by Microsoft Press (most notably Code Complete).

I do agree, though, that one should stay away from the oversized 'Learn X in 21 days' and the huge red Wrox books that seem to dominate the computer books shelves. A complete newbie needs a textbook; an experienced programmer needs something smaller and better written, except for the occasional reference book (Troelsen's [insert either VB.NET or C# here] and the .NET Platform book is a pure reference book. I'd never read either version end to end, but it's useful to have on my bookshelf at work).

 

[ControlFreak]

Hey! I wrote an O'Reilly In a Nutshell book! 200 experience points to the first person who guesses which one!

 

[EOL]

I went to the O'Reilly Open Source Convetion last week it was very cool. Anyplace where you can watch Larry Wall and Richard Stallman verbally spar is aces in my book, plus I got to claim it as a business trip so my work footed the entire bill, oh yeah...