Re: "Official GNOME 2 Developers Guide" (for newbies like me)

[weasel <weasel beyondnormal org>]

John (J5) Palmieri wrote:
> On Fri, 2004-01-23 at 19:08, weasel wrote:
>
> > Marshall Lake wrote:
> >
> > > > > Just got back from Linux World Expo and I finally found a good printed
> > > > > book for GTK2 (and various other GNOME libs) from No Starch Press.  Its
> > > > > suppose to be out in Feb of 2004 and will be available on
> > > > > www.nostarch.com.  I checked out a preliminary printed copy and it looks
> > > > > like a great book for the beginner and beyond.
> > >
> > >
> > > > Oreilly (www.oreilly.com) is also taking preorders.  I suggest people
> > > > pick this one up as it not only goes over the various libs but but shows
> > > > how to use them to integrate your app into the GNOME framework.
> > >
> > >
> > > It appears it's the same book at both nostarch and oreilly.  It might be a
> > > little cheaper at oreilly, though, since I believe the price includes
> > > shipping.
> >
> > No Starch Press is the publisher, and O'Reilly is the distributer...
> >
> > I spoke with the President of No Starch Press at the conference and he 
> > said he would send me a PDF of the book, cause it released under some 
> > licence (forgot what its called) that allows that.  I will ask him if 
> > its ok to forward to the list when I get it.
> >
> > I am probably going to preorder from O'Reilly today.  Nothing like 
> > holding it in your hand...heh.
> >
> > Nick
>
>
> I believe it is under the free document license.  I'm gona preorder
> also.  Besides holding it in your hands it is nice to give back to
> Matthias Warkus (not to mention the translators) who did an excellent
> job getting this book out.  I talked to him on IRC awhile back and he
> didn't seem to be making that much money off the book.  I've been
> waiting to get my hands on it ever since.  Perhaps the English release
> will get him enough money to consider doing a second edition ;-)
>
> --
> J5
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Supposedly the english translation is much better than the original.

Nick