On Wed, 12 Sep 2007, lanas wrote:
> Sometimes, concise articles in a magazine can carry a good deal of
> inspiration. Like the one you wrote using POE and Gaim (if I'm not
> mistaken - it is some time ago). Your articles are concise and
> deliver in a small space without much talk. This is fitting for
> a periodic magazine column.
Thanks for the kind words, I'm glad you liked the articles :). Two of
them were POE-related, one 11/2005 on Gaim and POE:
http://www.linux-magazine.com/issue/60/Perl_Gaim_Plugin.pdf
and another one 05/2004 on Gtk and POE:
http://www.linux-magazine.com/issue/42/Perl_Screen_Scrapers.pdf
> Maybe you can come up with other inspiring uses of POE ;-)
Sure will :).
> On the other hand a good book can be a source of continuous
> inspiration and I do not agree that these books are obsolete by the
> time they reach the shelves. I'm thinking of 'Perl Best Pratices' and
> 'Perl Hacks' for instance. I wonder how much money these have
> generated. Not much, I presume.
It's all about the number of copies a book can sell ... I doubt that
either of these books have made much money for the publisher or the
authors. I guess they sold 2,000 copies each (max!), so if the author
gets a buck or two per copy, you do the math if that's worth your time
for spending half a year on writing them.
On the other hand, publishers like O'Reilly aren't charitable
organisations. Believe it or not, they're in there for the money.
They make it by the one or two out of 100 books that are bestsellers
and sell 500,000 copies over several years.
-- Mike
Mike Schilli
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