Steve Bergman wrote:
Chad L. wrote:
Anyone know of any TurboGears books in the works? I would think
O'Reilly would be all over this...?
T'would be nice. But don't hold your breath. One of the problems with
using the best tools instead of the most popular ones is that there
never seem to be many book on the best tools. I could run down to
Barnes and Noble and probably pick up 4 or 5 books off the shelf with
titles like "Web Programming With PHP 5 and MySQL 4". I'd probably
find two books on general Python programming, both a few years old, and
one on general PostgreSQL usage, O'reiley included.
I think that's more pessimistic than necessary; publishers won't
necessarily beat down the door, but the first step would be a pitch.
I've only flirted in the lightest way with book authoring (or maybe just
slightly less lightly with writing articles for pay), but the obstactles
didn't seem insurmountable. However, an author is required, which
probably means someone here. You can't find technical ghostwriters ;)
A good place to start would be IBM DeveloperWorks. I've heard they are
looking pretty actively for content, and this would fit well in that
site. The people I've known who have looked into this have often gone
through an agent. If someone is interested in this, I can dig up the
contact that was passed along to me. Also Dr. Dobbs; Greg Wilson is an
editor or somesuch there, and he'd be a good contact. There's a couple
other print magazines that could be good.
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