> -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] [mailto:u2-users- > [email protected]] On Behalf Of Tony Gravagno > Sent: Monday, March 22, 2010 12:39 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [U2] Pick Pocket Guide > > I don't know where to put this note in this thread so I'll reply > to my friend Jon... > > What amazes me is that the Pick/MV community seems to be so > "anti-book" and "pro-everything-should-be-free", and this is why > we haven't seen any new books in this industry for so many years. > And yet the fondness and passion for Jon's works seems to be > timeless. > > If people in this community expressed serious interest in new > books and other education material for MV, we'd have them. Heck, > a windbag like me can cough up a few hundred pages in a weekend. > And with a windbag like Jon, well, we could crank out a book over > a session at Starbuck's. ;) >
Why would there be interest in books when there are VARs and consultants that will just do the work? How many developers out there would really take interest in core design and integration tomes? That's when a magazine article or forum thread can't expose the details properly. I'd love to write a book, but books written about design and integration tend to have short shelf lives. There are plenty of "application design" books already out there that can be applied to code of any language. The integration aspect is constantly changing and there are so many methods to cover. It's difficult to write something useable by everyone. Remember the communication RFC I tried to get backing on? No one wants to make things easy, because then it'll become mundane and standard. Mundane and standard don't bring in revenue. We(MV in general) are fish still fighting for the same food in a dwindling tank. > I've blogged and written forum postings about the lack of books > in this market: > remove.pleaseNebula-RnD.com/blog/tech/mv/2007/05/mvbooks1.html > All we really need is some sense of visible community commitment > and I'm sure we would see new/modern books for Pick/MultiValue > just like Linux, SQL Server, PHP, Java, C#, Excel, and hundreds > of other technical topics - not just from me or maybe Jon but > from many other qualified authors in this community. > A commitment is one tough thing. Finding a topic you can fulfill in a single book, without drowning the reader, is another. > Look at it this way, a lack of MV books can cost you your job, so > it may be worth it to support efforts like this. If your company > is acquired and/or you get a new CTO, you may hear: "What is > this? I can't find a single book on this. We need to replace this > with something mainstream." Help foster the creation of a wealth > of material and that battle of this war will no longer need to be > fought. > > Thoughts? > > Tony Gravagno > Nebula Research and Development > TG@ remove.pleaseNebula-RnD.com > Visit PickWiki.com! Contribute! > http://Twitter.com/TonyGravagno > At this point, a couple of randomly published and unnoticed books will not prevent a seat from being overturned or an application from being overhauled. However, it wouldn't hurt to have a few e-books on Kindle. ---------------------------------------- Glen Batchelor IT Director All-Spec Industries phone: (910) 332-0424 fax: (910) 763-5664 E-mail: [email protected] Web: http://www.all-spec.com Blog: http://blog.all-spec.com ---------------------------------------- _______________________________________________ U2-Users mailing list [email protected] http://listserver.u2ug.org/mailman/listinfo/u2-users
