Sorry Nate. I really didn't think my request would cause such a burden. I didn't mean to offend anyone, I was just asking if someone already had the cookbook in PDF format (not create it for me). Believe me if I knew you guys felt so strongly about the issue I wouldn't have 'pressed it'.
Thanks koko for the PDF, I appreciate it. On Mar 9, 2:11 pm, nate <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Again Greg, that's 30 seconds of someone else's time. But it's really > more than that, since it would also have to be someone's > responsibility to keep said PDF updated with the Cookbook, which > changes often, sometimes hourly. Not to mention that it exists in a > dozen languages. So that's creating an uploading 12 PDFs anywhere > from once a week to once a day. Gets to be over 30 seconds pretty > quickly. > > But that ignores the larger problem, which is this: by continually > pressing the issue, you're essentially trying to take your own problem > and make it someone else's. This is not cool. Now the beauty of Open > Source, that I've found, is that when you have a problem, rather than > trying to get someone else to fix it for you, you fix it for > yourself. Not only for yourself, but for everyone. > > So Greg, you've now been presented with an opportunity, and thank God > there is more than one way to convert HTML to PDF (html2pdf anyone?). > Once you are able to solve this problem for yourself, you could not > only share the benefits with everyone, you could even automate it so > that we never have to solve this problem again. I know everyone on > the team would be very grateful, especially John. > > Just my two pennies. Think about it. > > On Mar 9, 8:51 am, Greg Baker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > with add due respect, Chris.. How much time would be wasted creating > > a PDF? 30 seconds? > > > I would gladly do it if my PDF writer didn't crap out after page 2 of > > the document. > > > On Mar 8, 11:01 pm, "Chris Hartjes" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > On Sat, Mar 8, 2008 at 6:14 PM, Mech7 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > The API in pdf would be nice too :p > > > > A pony to ride would be nice as well, but that's not happening either. > > > > The API is likely to change before 1.2 is labeled as being final, so I > > > would say providing a PDF of it is a waste. > > > > The Cookbook is a "living and breathing document", so again, creating > > > a PDF of that would be a waste of time as well. > > > > Just my opinion. > > > > -- > > > Chris Hartjes > > > Internet Loudmouth > > > Motto for 2008: "Moving from herding elephants to handling snakes..." > > > @TheKeyBoard:http://www.littlehart.net/atthekeyboard --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Cake PHP" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/cake-php?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
