On 2007-10-26, Jim Bublitz wrote: > On Thursday 25 October 2007 18:20, David Boddie wrote: > > Note: As a reviewer, I received a copy free of charge, but I would have > > bought a copy anyway. I had to squeeze my reviewing duties in between > > work and real life, so I didn't really have the time to enjoy the book > > the first time around. :-) > > Heh - when I was teaching, I'd get a free copy and *paid* to review > textbooks. Mostly on hardware, but one of my favorites was a text on BASIC > for the PDP-11 (in the late 1980s - it was obvious PCs would dominate by > then), with about half the book devoted to simulating logic gates in code. > I was surprised the check cleared for that review.
Publishers will pay reviewers a token sum... but post-Enron for non-US citizens, this involves tedious form filling and accounting for how many TV cat snack dinners they've had etc. > I'll probably pick up a copy just because there are some things in Qt4 I > still haven't found time to get on top of, and some bad habits I should > probably break. You will certainly find some topics that aren't covered in the C++/Qt book:-) -- Mark Summerfield, Qtrac Ltd., www.qtrac.eu _______________________________________________ PyQt mailing list [email protected] http://www.riverbankcomputing.com/mailman/listinfo/pyqt
