From: Jay Levitt <jay+news@...>
Date: 2007-10-09T03:30:04+09:00
Subject: Re: considering writing a book on Ruby/Rails?

On Mon, 08 Oct 2007 13:38:54 -0400, Eric H. wrote:

> A list of links to pages that have up-to-date information on installing
> for each platform and the idiosyncrasies for each is a better solution
> than attempting to claim to be all-knowledgeable for all platforms when
> in reality the author is really only experienced in a very few of the
> platforms mentioned.

Excellent point.  Books should consider "online appendices" more often for
things like that.

I have to laugh when I thumb through a decades-old book and it tells me to
find something on archie or in comp.sources.

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