On Sun, Aug 1, 2010 at 1:08 PM, Roderick A. Anderson <[email protected]> wrote: > I'm always in the market for dead tree or captured electron media but I > don't remember seeing any posts on the list by the author -- Antano Solar > John. > > Has anyone reviewed this book? Familiar with the author?
The 1st edition wasn't at all bad, aside from the absolutely awful editing job and useless index. A quick read through the 2nd edition seems to be much mostly the same with a new chapter on Moose. I "upgraded" the book hoping the Moose bits would be informative. They might be, but only if you're very new to Moose. there are no deep insights to be found. The editing and layout (at least of the etext) is worse -- I honestly didn't think that was possible; the index appears unchanged. If you're looking for a good -- but becoming outdated -- book, the Apress book is a better choice. Honestly, this'll be the last time I buy anything from Packt. They have very promising titles (and the 1st ed of the Catalyst book was informative and clueful, I mean no disrespect to the author) but the publishing part of the equation is shabby, at least in a world where Apress, ORA, AW, &c. books are so well done. Something as seemingly simple as consistent capitalization appears beyond Packt's reach. All things told, I wouldn't recommend it. k. -- kevin montuori _______________________________________________ List: [email protected] Listinfo: http://lists.scsys.co.uk/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/catalyst Searchable archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ Dev site: http://dev.catalyst.perl.org/
