On Fri, Jun 13, 2014 at 09:23:31AM +0930, Barrie Treloar wrote: > On 13 June 2014 09:07, mike digioia <mpd...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > So how does this book help you any more than all the detailed online Maven > > docs that exists and are updated? > > > It's just another source of information. > > The docs don't really walk you through everything, they are mostly focused > on a particular plugin and not on how to pull all this together.
Indeed. One thing I really miss from the evil old mainframe days is the manuals that gave you the big picture and the developers' view of how they expected the tools to be used. There were usually two books for any product: o Reference Manual -- *complete* individual descriptions of each feature, command, and qualifier. o Programmer's (or User's) Guide -- fits all the pieces together and suggests good ways to think about the facility under discussion. I typically had both open when working on anything nontrivial. It's essential to have both the macro and the micro view of a tool, to use it well. -- Mark H. Wood, Lead System Programmer mw...@iupui.edu Machines should not be friendly. Machines should be obedient.
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