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nanode
03-25-2001, 07:57 PM
The other night on IRC, I started gabbing with some people about programming. Someone brought up PHP and another person posted a link to a PHP book by Wrox Press. (Red cover w/ yellow letters)
It's my sworn duty as a programmer to inject opinions into such conversation. Without ever reading the book, I said "I don't like Wrox books".
It turns out the guy who posted the link was the author of the book :(
Fortunately he was really cool and we had a really good chat about all sorts of things.
Today's lesson: you never know who might be listening :)
Energon
03-25-2001, 09:48 PM
what's wrong w/ Wrox books?
nanode
03-26-2001, 12:08 AM
I'm not anti-Wrox, but they generally seem over-verbose to me. Also, why do they put pictures of the authors on the fron covers? Programmers write these books, not super models :)
Some of my favorite programming books are by Prentice Hall and Addison Wesley. Just my opinion.
Energon
03-26-2001, 01:13 AM
Well, I kinda like the Wrox books... granted, you're right about them being very wordy, which makes it pretty difficult to find info without re-reading the whole thing... but there a couple that do the job pretty good... I'm enjoying the "Beginning Linux Programming" one right now... pretty good reference for lots of different things... but that's coming from a Windows background...
Prentice Hall and Addison Wesley eh? Good math books as well... if I had an overall choice, I'd go w/ O'Reily books for programming (among other topics)... I have yet to find a bad one...
jemfinch
03-26-2001, 08:10 AM
Originally posted by nanode:
Some of my favorite programming books are by Prentice Hall and Addison Wesley. Just my opinion.
And mine.
Jeremy
Dru Lee Parsec
03-27-2001, 06:32 PM
Other than "Java in a Nutshell" I've never been led astray by an O'Reilly book.
Other than "XSLT Programmer's Reference" I've never been pleased with a Wrox book.
nanode
03-28-2001, 10:56 AM
DLP:
Thanks for backing me up. :)
Originally posted by Dru Lee Parsec:
Other than "Java in a Nutshell" I've never been led astray by an O'Reilly book.
Word, yo. I found that in a bargain bin for 5 bucks and I still felt ripped off. I don't think it had any info that java.sun.com didn't have; and at least sun was kept up to date.
Raskii
03-28-2001, 01:34 PM
QUE and Core books are the best IMHO, with QUE at the top.
Those stupid M$ Press books (yes, I actually have some of those) are by farthe worst.