Hi Ulrich and Jim,
On 03/08/2016 07:11 PM, jimlux wrote:
The people who really know about this stuff do it for a living, all the
time, and probably don't have a lot of free time. I've done a couple of
book chapters, and it's an enormous amount of work, and that's with
collaborators and editors to help. I suspect that for these people the
problem is not a lack of "funding" from the employer, but, rather, that
there is more work to do than people to do it.
And, often, the "state of the art" is either proprietary or subject to
other controls on distribution. Unless you are in a special situation
(e.g. you own the company, or it's a small company and the owner(s)
agree), I can see management not seeing the "value added proposition"
for letting your talented, knowledgable PLL guru work on getting into a
form suitable for publication: they'd rather you be making boxes.
Indeed, this is really a problem. At the same time, people do need to
learn the basics and honestly, there haven't been many good books but
lots of half-crap books.
There is also many aspects which you need to learn as concepts, even if
you use gift-wrapped designs.
At the same time, there is always a generation shift, there is always
new designers that need to learn how to do this, that need the advice.
I find that I teaches basics regularly to my colleagues, so that they
can design a better solutions.
I think there is value in keeping a good reference book maintained and
up to date.
Cheers,
Magnus
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