Second Edition of Agile Web Development with Rails

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On May 3, 2006, at 10:57 AM, David P. wrote:

Dave gets my business because I’m buying his book.

Dave gets a lot more of that “business” from those that buy directly
from Dave. :wink:

James Edward G. II

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Dave gets my business because I’m buying his book.

Amazon gets my business because I’m an Amazon Prime member so the books
get
shipped 2 day for no additional charge and Amazon has always done the
right
thing by me when orders were lost in shipments, etc. I make on average
3
Amazon orders a week and I always feel satisfied with the orders, thus I
want to keep supporting a vendor that does right by me.

Finally, if the large distributors (e.g., Amazon, B&N, Borders) have
more
orders for Ruby materials, the more they will promote/stock Ruby titles.
Helping Ruby books get shelf space is a very good thing for the Ruby
community and for Ruby book publishers.

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I just purchased it … PDF only … and I’m impressed. I have a
question though. Where is the Rails schedule in relation to the
publishing schedule for the book? Rails is at 1.1.2 right now, by the
time the paper book is ready/beta period ends, where will Rails be? 1.2?
1.9.6?? 2.0?

Dave T. wrote:

latest Rails programming recommendations (including dropping things
illustrate all we’ve learned about writing Rails applications in the

the beta book version. If you want the paper book, you’ll have the
Visit the book’s page at http://pragmaticprogrammer.com/titles/rails

Dave T.

–
M. Edward (Ed) Borasky

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Yeah … besides, the Gerbil Union doesn’t have a contract with Amazon.

My order of priority for buying books is:

  1. Powell’s here in Portland if they have it in stock.
  2. The original publisher if they ship – which in this case would be
    Dave T… :slight_smile:
  3. Search addall.com for the best price … or if it’s out of print,
    this becomes #2.
  4. Amazon.

To the poster who wondered whether to get PDF only or Combo … I
started out buying the combos but have switched to PDF only. My
reasoning:

  1. For a beta, at least, there is something like a three to six month
    lead time. By the time the book is actually in print, I will or should
    have everything in it committed to memory/code/internalized.

  2. Given a laptop, PDFs are as portable as a paper book. I have several
    hundred PDFs, including just about everything Pragmatic has published, a
    bunch of queuing theory papers and other miscellaneous “light reading”
    on my laptop. It’s close to a gigabyte zipped, and is the largest single
    item in my home directory.

I can’t even begin to estimate what all of that works out to in pages or
pounds or carloads. I wish everybody would publish on PDFs – I think
the DRM stuff can be worked out to the authors’, publishers’ and
readers’ satisfaction.

  1. There’s also the emotional and probably bogus bit about saving trees.
    I heat my home in the winter with junk mail. :slight_smile:

James Edward G. II wrote:

On May 3, 2006, at 10:57 AM, David P. wrote:

Dave gets my business because I’m buying his book.

Dave gets a lot more of that “business” from those that buy directly
from Dave. :wink:

James Edward G. II

–
M. Edward (Ed) Borasky