Re: [CODE4LIB] Which O'Reilly books should we give away at Code4Lib 2011?

2010-12-14 Thread Luciano Ramalho
On Wed, Dec 8, 2010 at 9:16 PM, Cary Gordon listu...@chillco.com wrote: JQuery Cookbook +1 And CouchDB, the Definitve Guide. I believe CouchDB will take the library world by storm, and the sooner the better. A document database is what we need for many of our applications. CouchDB, with its

Re: [CODE4LIB] Which O'Reilly books should we give away at Code4Lib 2011?

2010-12-14 Thread Thomas Dowling
On 12/14/2010 07:58 AM, Luciano Ramalho wrote: I believe CouchDB will take the library world by storm, and the sooner the better. A document database is what we need for many of our applications. CouchDB, with its 100% RESTful API is a highly productive web-services platform with a

Re: [CODE4LIB] Which O'Reilly books should we give away at Code4Lib 2011?

2010-12-14 Thread Bill Dueber
While both are document stores, there are some major differences in their data model, most notably that mongoDB uses an update-replaces mechanism, while CouchDB allows you to access any version of a document, which brings with it issues of transaction overlaps (who wins?) and having to

Re: [CODE4LIB] Which O'Reilly books should we give away at Code4Lib 2011?

2010-12-14 Thread Michael B. Klein
Does Pragmatic Bookshelf count as O'Reilly? O'Reilly is their sole US distributor, but someone else may be in charge of them, so I don't know. I'll post 'em anyway. The newly published RSpec Book http://oreilly.com/catalog/9781934356371/ would be a worthy title to include, though it's more

Re: [CODE4LIB] Which O'Reilly books should we give away at Code4Lib 2011?

2010-12-08 Thread Ya'aqov Ziso
Hi Kevin, -- if available, any of their current eBooks, -- *Ya'aqov* * * * * *** * On Tue, Dec 7, 2010 at 8:31 PM, Kevin S. Clarke kscla...@gmail.com wrote: Hi all, If you have particular O'Reilly titles that you'd like for us to ask O'Reilly for, send them to me and I'll put them in our

Re: [CODE4LIB] Which O'Reilly books should we give away at Code4Lib 2011?

2010-12-08 Thread Lovins, Daniel
: Wednesday, December 08, 2010 6:53 AM To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] Which O'Reilly books should we give away at Code4Lib 2011? Hi Kevin, -- if available, any of their current eBooks, -- *Ya'aqov* * * * * *** * On Tue, Dec 7, 2010 at 8:31 PM, Kevin S. Clarke kscla

Re: [CODE4LIB] Which O'Reilly books should we give away at Code4Lib 2011?

2010-12-08 Thread Jonathan Rochkind
If you're looking for suggestions on other publishers to solicit (not that you asked : ) ), Manning, publisher of Erik Hatcher's Lucene in Action among other useful titles. Pragmatic Bookshelf, publisher of the canonical Rails books, among other useful titles. [ But I don't mean to add

Re: [CODE4LIB] Which O'Reilly books should we give away at Code4Lib 2011?

2010-12-08 Thread Jon Gorman
So somebody actually attempts to answer your question: Some O'Reilly books that would probably be a good fit for the conference: Search/Library related - Ambient findability Information Architecture for the World Wide Web Information Architecture for the World Wide Web Search Patterns

Re: [CODE4LIB] Which O'Reilly books should we give away at Code4Lib 2011?

2010-12-08 Thread Kevin S. Clarke
Thanks Jonathan, we do have Manning and Pragmatic covered http://wiki.code4lib.org/index.php/2011_committees_sign-up_page#Book_Give-Away_Committee (+ list of publishers) though I don't know if the folks working with them have the option to suggest titles we'd like. It probably wouldn't hurt

Re: [CODE4LIB] Which O'Reilly books should we give away at Code4Lib 2011?

2010-12-08 Thread Thomas Bennett
I really like the Google App Engine by Dan Sanderson I got at the last Code4LIB conference. It covers programming in Java and Python for the Google App Engine. ISBN: 978-0-596-52272-8 Maybe there is a new addition out. Tom On Tuesday 07 December 2010 21:31:59 you wrote: Hi all, If

Re: [CODE4LIB] Which O'Reilly books should we give away at Code4Lib 2011?

2010-12-08 Thread Chris Markman
I'm reading 'Spidering Hacks' right now and finding a lot of interesting stuff. http://oreilly.com/catalog/9780596005771 ISBN: 978-0-596-00577-1 -CM On Wed, Dec 8, 2010 at 12:27 PM, Thomas Bennett bennet...@appstate.eduwrote: I really like the Google App Engine by Dan Sanderson I got at the

Re: [CODE4LIB] Which O'Reilly books should we give away at Code4Lib 2011?

2010-12-08 Thread Keith Jenkins
Hopefully the 4th edition of Programming Python will be out in time for the conference. Keith On Tue, Dec 7, 2010 at 9:31 PM, Kevin S. Clarke kscla...@gmail.com wrote: If you have particular O'Reilly titles that you'd like for us to ask O'Reilly for, send them to me and I'll put them in our

Re: [CODE4LIB] Which O'Reilly books should we give away at Code4Lib 2011?

2010-12-08 Thread Gabriel Farrell
I've heard good things about Pilgrim's HTML5 book. I also still want my own copy of Javascript: The Good Parts. On Tue, Dec 7, 2010 at 9:31 PM, Kevin S. Clarke kscla...@gmail.com wrote: Hi all, If you have particular O'Reilly titles that you'd like for us to ask O'Reilly for, send them to me

Re: [CODE4LIB] Which O'Reilly books should we give away at Code4Lib 2011?

2010-12-08 Thread Nate Vack
On Wed, Dec 8, 2010 at 3:46 PM, Gabriel Farrell gsf...@gmail.com wrote: I've heard good things about Pilgrim's HTML5 book. I also still want my own copy of Javascript: The Good Parts. Javascript: The Good Parts++ Absolutely fabulous. Cheers, -Nate

Re: [CODE4LIB] Which O'Reilly books should we give away at Code4Lib 2011?

2010-12-08 Thread Cary Gordon
JQuery Cookbook slide:ology On Tue, Dec 7, 2010 at 6:31 PM, Kevin S. Clarke kscla...@gmail.com wrote: Hi all, If you have particular O'Reilly titles that you'd like for us to ask O'Reilly for, send them to me and I'll put them in our request. Thanks, Kevin -- Cary Gordon The Cherry

[CODE4LIB] Which O'Reilly books should we give away at Code4Lib 2011?

2010-12-07 Thread Kevin S. Clarke
Hi all, If you have particular O'Reilly titles that you'd like for us to ask O'Reilly for, send them to me and I'll put them in our request. Thanks, Kevin