From: Markus Jais <info@...>
Date: 2002-03-28T06:50:07+09:00
Subject: Re: Webrick book ??

GOTO Kentaro wrote:

> Hi Markus,
> 
> At Thu, 28 Mar 2002 00:49:26 +0900,
> Markus Jais wrote:
>> hello
>> I just downloaded webrick and looked at the code of webrick.rb and there
>> I saw this line:
>> 
>> Author: IPR -- Internet Programming with Ruby -- writers
>> 
>> is this a new book because I was not able to find it at amazon.com or
>> amazon.de???
> 
> Yes. That is very new one, because we authors don't finish writing.
> 
> IPR is based on 1 year serialization on OpenDesign, a Japanese
> magazine deals with all about network.  However, almost all are being
> rewritten.  This book is a tutorial of network programming and basic
> protocols e.g. HTTP, FTP, TELNET, SMTP etc.  Of course WEBrick will be
> introduced.
> 
> By the way, I would beg apologies unless you have learned Japanese. We
> are writing the book in our mother tongue. Any translations are not
> scheduled yet.

thanks for your answer. unfortunately I speak only german and english
(just started teaching myself spanisch and french, so there is no time
left for japanase although I am sure it is a great language)
maybe some publishers from the USA or Germany are interested when the
book is a success in Japan. I think a book which focus only on using Ruby
for network programming would be popular even outside of Japan.
(there is a great book about network programming in Perl, the same
for Ruby would be great)

markus






> 
> thanks,
> 
> -- Gotoken