From: anne001 <anne@...>
Date: 2006-02-02T20:18:20+09:00
Subject: Re: Strange posting about ebooks

Yes, I was a clear minority on this one! I was surprise by the response
of this list. "Me using a copy I have not paid for. Oh no!" And yet on
a talk on rails, the presenter said one of the advantage of web
applications was that the user did not have a copy of the program to
give to his friends. This is presumably a site with computer folks and
they --- Oh Never -- bootlegged something? They must all be old and
established earning good salaries who have therefore gotten religion.
Or the others did not say anything.

Here is my problem with the pickaxe, as posted recently on a pickaxe
book discussion
"I have no use for databases, and the whole book uses one single
database example, it
seems --  I am allergic to the word "song", it shows up too many time
in that book, every
other word it seems -- "

and I had one person in agreement.

If I can learn ruby in another book, it sounds like the pickaxe will be
good as reference. So all is not lost.

I have had no access to the ruby way, so I can't say. It is not clear
from this list if the files could be compromised. In any case I would
want to wait for this summer when the ruby way second edition is
expected.

Bummer for the Sam's teach yourself ruby not beeing updated.