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J. David Blackstone has a Bachelor of Science in Computer Science and Engineering and nine years of experience at a wireless telecommunications company, where he learned Perl and never looked back. J. David has an advantage in that he works really hard, he has a passion for writing good software, and he knows many of the world's best Perl programmers.

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Thursday January 30, 2003
01:10 PM

Sample chapters

[ #10299 ]

I hadn't noticed before, but many of O'Reilly's subject specific webpages now have a sample chapter archive with links to the online sample chapters from every in-print book within the subject.

The general URL format seems to be http://$subject.oreilly.com/pub/q/${subject}_chapters. Some sections don't seem to have a sample chapter archive.

Of course, nothing can compare to the sheer power of actually owning twenty O'Reilly Oracle books and having them on your shelf.


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  • Of course, nothing can compare to the sheer power of actually owning twenty O'Reilly Oracle books and having them on your shelf.
    Oh yeah? It's even cooler to have gotten those 20 books for free. Nothing can compare to that.
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    • Touche. However, I did get many of the books in my collection for $5 [perl.org].

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    • Did you actually get 20 O'Reilly Oracle books for free?

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  • Twenty O'Reilly books?

    Snapshot from 2001 [petdance.com]

    Amateur.

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    • Amateur.

      You're not flipping the bozo bit on me, are you? Real people don't need to call their colleagues.... Oh, never mind. :)

      I like the color coded arrangement, even though it leads to strange subject groupings and separations.

      I note two copies of Learning GNU Emacs in your collection which do not appear to be different editions. We won't disqualify the whole entry, though. ;)

      Extra points for owning UNIX Text Processing!

      There is no orange in your entire collection, so it looks quite a bit di

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      • > my library has grown by 14 books in less than 18 days.

        Which is how many pounds a year?

        But seriously: Shouldn't we be able to hand in proof of ownership of, say, 50 O'Reilly books (no, I'm not there yet) and get our choice of:

        • Build, Make and Test your own Bookcases
        • Power Tools in a Nutshell
        • Running from Falling Shelves
        • Book Shelve Hacks
          • Yo, Gnat, are you listening?

    • I have a copy of the lion book, and you do not! :P

      I can't believe it's out of print, now. How do newbies learn system calls, these days?

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    • Amateur.

      +0.5 for some of the X manuals (and -0.5 none of the Motif versions).

      +2 for UNIX Text Processing

      +1 for Cracking DES

      +3 for The Frame Handbook

      +1 for one of those DCE books.

      +0.125 for one of the W3J's

      -5 for not having any of the BSD manuals: USD [oreilly.com], URM [oreilly.com], PRM [oreilly.com], PSD [oreilly.com], or SRM [oreilly.com].

      :-)

    • OK, here are updated shots (left [petdance.com] and right [petdance.com]) of my bookshelf from home. Mind you, this isn't my work bookshelf, which has all the stuff that I use daily. It's a lot more Perl-heavy.

      Ziggy will be glad to note the Motif manual. I'm rather pleased with having found The Frame Handbook, too.

      jdavidb is incorrect that the two versions of Learning GNU Emacs are the same. One is a 2nd edition, but it's very small print that tells you that.

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