From: Armin Roehrl Date: 2002-09-03T19:38:17+09:00 Subject: Re: another german book is coming.. Am Dienstag, 3. September 2002 00:21 schrieben Sie: > I think this is not so useful. There are already a few very good out > there. What is necessary is a book for the advanced programmer. But it > seems that most publishing companies don't llike this kind of books > and yes, they have to pay more to the writer. I think the German market for Ruby is still way too small. I think Stefan, Clemens and I would happily add another 300 pages to our Ruby book, but the problem simply is that so far not enough books are sold. .. so if you speak German buy German ruby books for your friends. In the short-run I think for more advanced/specialised books .. hope on English books. Maybe it would make economics sense to translate a few Japanese books. Just out of interest, is there a list of Japanese Ruby books with English summaries what they are about to see what sells in Japan? Just by studying code -- without understanding Japanse you can probably pick up a few things. What is the best way to order Japanese books from Germany? What specific topics lack good enough documentation? Maybe someone could write an online tutorial/article. Maybe one way to expertise is to look at the source-code and if you "grok" it give sth. back to the open source community by posting summaries to the newsgroup, adding it to the wiki on Rubygarden, put it on your webpage. The Community lives from sharing. I know this takes more effort than simply buying a book, but you do yourself a big favour as you well learn a lot while doing it .. and don't forget you can always ask s.b. here. Write your own documentation and share it! Take care, Armin. ----------------------------------------------- Armin Roehrl, http://www.approximity.com Training, Development and Mentoring OOP, XP, Java, Ruby, Smalltalk, Datamining, Parallel computing, Webservices Rubybuch: http://approximity.com/rubybuch/ Agile Entwicklerkonferenz: 22. und 23.10 in N�rnberg. http://www.approximity.com/public/conferences/AgileConf.html