Re: Perl Books

On Wed, Jan 31, 2001 at 09:05:25PM +, Dave Cross ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: [Liz Castro's appalling Perl/CGI book] > I wrote a very scathing review of Castro's book on amazon.com yesterday. > In case it doesn't get published, here's the gist: > > For a technical book to be worth buying it n

Re: Perl Books

Nathan Torkington [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] quoth: *> *>Hey, if she's allowed to plug, so am I :-) The 2nd edition of "CGI *>Programming with Perl" (O'Reilly of course) is pretty bloody good. I *>was midway through writing a CGI class when I got a tech-review copy *>of the book, and it was what I was g

Re: Perl Books

Robin Szemeti [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] quoth: *> *>i think we get a slanted view on what a 'normal level of intelligence' *>is, because in general, we work with exceptional people. I spent the last I know at least 2 nobel laureates who wouldn't know jack about CGI or about selecting which book might b

Re: Perl Books

Nathan Torkington [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] quoth: *>> Also L Steins Network Programming with Perl is a good book. I'm only a *>> chunk into it buts its a good read on its own and an even better one *>> if your not from a Unix background. *> *>Yup, it's a bloody impressive book. And it's an Addison-Wes

Re: Perl Books

On Wed, 31 Jan 2001, you wrote: > Robin Szemeti [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] quoth: > *> > *>no one ever said the buying public were intelligent ... > > Well, people rise to meet expectations too. There is precious little in > the way of good CGI books with a practical slant to them out there so out > of

Re: Bad Perl

> "Elaine" == Elaine -HFB- Ashton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Elaine> And speaking of bad books, who is this Martin Brown guy who has Elaine> a new book every month these days, certainly he must have a Elaine> ghostwriter. AFAIK he writes 'em all himself, forgoing sleep and suchl

Re: Perl Books

On Wed, Jan 31, 2001 at 07:41:54PM +, Jonathan Stowe ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Wed, 31 Jan 2001, Elaine -HFB- Ashton wrote: > > > Robin Szemeti [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] quoth: > > *> > > *>no one ever said the buying public were intelligent ... > > > > Well, people rise to meet expectations

Re: Perl Books

Dean S Wilson writes: > >Hey, if she's allowed to plug, so am I :-) The 2nd edition of "CGI > >Programming with Perl" (O'Reilly of course) is pretty bloody good > > Duh, its an O'Reilly. ;) If only it was that automatic--we sometimes release stinkers (c.f. the *first* edition of the CGI book :-)

Re: Perl Books

On Wed, 31 Jan 2001, Elaine -HFB- Ashton wrote: > Robin Szemeti [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] quoth: > *> > *>no one ever said the buying public were intelligent ... > > Well, people rise to meet expectations too. There is precious little in > the way of good CGI books with a practical slant to them out th

Re: Perl Books

On Wed, Jan 31, 2001 at 12:31:33PM -0700, Nathan Torkington ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Elaine -HFB- Ashton writes: > > On the plus side, Addison-Wesley has a new CGI Perl book coming out in > > early February that should be a major improvement in this particular > > genre. > > Hey, if she's all

Re: Perl Books

-Original Message- From: Nathan Torkington <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Hey, if she's allowed to plug, so am I :-) The 2nd edition of "CGI >Programming with Perl" (O'Reilly of course) is pretty bloody good Duh, its an O'Reilly. ;) Also L Steins Network Programming with Perl is a good book. I'm

Re: Perl Books

Elaine -HFB- Ashton writes: > On the plus side, Addison-Wesley has a new CGI Perl book coming out in > early February that should be a major improvement in this particular > genre. Hey, if she's allowed to plug, so am I :-) The 2nd edition of "CGI Programming with Perl" (O'Reilly of course) is pr

Fwd: [briant@earthweb.com: RE: New Perl Journal]

A... er... 'friend' of mine emailed customer services at TPJ to find out what the official story was on its future. Here's the response I, er, he got. Dave... - Forwarded message from Brian Todd <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - From: Brian Todd <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "'Mike Brown'" <[EMAIL PROTEC

Every OS Sucks

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Re: Perl Books

Robin Szemeti [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] quoth: *> *>no one ever said the buying public were intelligent ... Well, people rise to meet expectations too. There is precious little in the way of good CGI books with a practical slant to them out there so out of the lot of them, this is probably one of the b

Re: Perl Books

> On Wed, Jan 31, 2001 at 02:32:21PM +, Struan Donald wrote: > > > > er... this unweldy thing would seem to be it: > > > > http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/browse/-/4045/107-2581489-8245353 Looks like the 2nd edition of the camel book is smaller and more expensive than the 3rd. What a b

Re: Perl Books

On Wed, 31 Jan 2001, you wrote: > > It's at > > Crickey! That book by Ms Castro that's been slated everywhere is at > number 5!!! no one ever said the buying public were intelligent ... in fact it has been said (by some famoose newspaper

Re: Perl Books

On Wed, Jan 31, 2001 at 02:32:21PM +, Struan Donald wrote: > > er... this unweldy thing would seem to be it: > > http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/browse/-/4045/107-2581489-8245353 A handy hint for amazon URLs: you can knock off the long number on the end, and the thing will still work.

Re: Perl Books

On Wed, Jan 31, 2001 at 09:32:48AM -0500, Dave Cross wrote: > At Wed, 31 Jan 2001 14:28:25 +, Dominic Mitchell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Wed, Jan 31, 2001 at 09:24:20AM -0500, Dave Cross wrote: > > > Here's an interesting page[1] > > > > Have a URL for that, guv? > > Bugger. > > It

Re: Perl Books

At Wed, 31 Jan 2001 14:28:25 +, Dominic Mitchell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, Jan 31, 2001 at 09:24:20AM -0500, Dave Cross wrote: > > Here's an interesting page[1] > > Have a URL for that, guv? Bugger. It's at Dave...

Re: Perl Books

* at 31/01 14:28 + Dominic Mitchell said: > On Wed, Jan 31, 2001 at 09:24:20AM -0500, Dave Cross wrote: > > Here's an interesting page[1] > > Have a URL for that, guv? er... this unweldy thing would seem to be it: http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/browse/-/4045/107-2581489-8245353 strua

Re: Perl Books

On Wed, Jan 31, 2001 at 09:24:20AM -0500, Dave Cross wrote: > Here's an interesting page[1] Have a URL for that, guv? -Dom

Re: Perl Books

On Wed, Jan 31, 2001 at 09:24:20AM -0500, Dave Cross wrote: > Here's an interesting page[1] it shows the top 100 best selling Perl > books at Amazon. Obviously I was most interesting in seeing where I url? Michael

Perl Books

Here's an interesting page[1] it shows the top 100 best selling Perl books at Amazon. Obviously I was most interesting in seeing where I was in the chart (number 62, if you're interested), but if you look at the 76-100 pages, there are a _lot_ of new Perl books listed to be released in the next fe

Re: the list

On Wed, Jan 31, 2001 at 12:04:54PM +, Greg McCarroll wrote: > * Michael Stevens ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > It's oh so quiet. > > > > After recent activity this is somewhat disconcerting. > > everyone is probably reading up on ruby in preparation for it > taking over the world Well, ther

Re: the list

At Wed, 31 Jan 2001 12:10:47 +, Richard Clamp <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, Jan 31, 2001 at 11:50:45AM +, Michael Stevens wrote: > > It's oh so quiet. > > > > After recent activity this is somewhat disconcerting. > > I don't know, before it was fast as lightning. > > Which was a

Re: the list

On Wed, Jan 31, 2001 at 11:50:45AM +, Michael Stevens wrote: > It's oh so quiet. > > After recent activity this is somewhat disconcerting. I don't know, before it was fast as lightning. Which was a little bit frightening. -- Richard Clamp <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: the list

On Wed, Jan 31, 2001 at 12:04:54PM +, Greg McCarroll wrote: > * Michael Stevens ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > It's oh so quiet. > > After recent activity this is somewhat disconcerting. > everyone is probably reading up on ruby in preparation for it > taking over the world Surely you mean py

Re: the list

* Michael Stevens ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > It's oh so quiet. > > After recent activity this is somewhat disconcerting. > everyone is probably reading up on ruby in preparation for it taking over the world -- Greg McCarroll http://www.mccarroll.uklinux.net

RE: the list

>It's oh so quiet. > >After recent activity this is somewhat disconcerting. OK, just in the interests of making traffic, then, here's a picture of me as a baby: http://website.lineone.net/~vineleaf/sands/gfx/mattjones.jpg You see, you have ot get your priorities right at an early age. -- matt

the list

It's oh so quiet. After recent activity this is somewhat disconcerting. Michael

Re: Meeting Reminder

On Tue, Jan 30, 2001 at 11:18:24PM +, Leon Brocard wrote: > Simon Wistow sent the following bits through the ether: > > Conveniently close to Cynthia's Cyberbar. > No, please god, no! Can't we just try and forget this excuse for a > bar?[1] But the mirrors! Don't forget the mirrors!

Re: London Community News 30/01/00

Dean S Wilson wrote: > GLLUG Hm, I wonder whether this acronym reflects what one of their meetings sounds like. Cheers, Philip