[svlug] Book recommendations

[Bill Ward]

On Mon, May 17, 2010 at 12:07 PM, Peter van der Linden <pvdl at afu.com> wrote:

>
> On May 17, 2010, at 12:00 PM, Daevid Vincent wrote:
>
> > Save yourself even MORE cash (and if you just downgraded your living area
> > by 10 fold, sounds like you could stand to save all the cash you can) and
> > just use the interwebs! There are billions of web pages with tutorials,
> > references, examples etc.
>
> Got to throw in a contrary opinion here - it takes a long time for free
> material on the web to approach the level of quality and organization of
> professionally-edited and reviewed texts.
>
> To say otherwise is like advocating for everyone to watch youtube instead
> of Hollywood movies - there's the occasional flash of brilliance, but by and
> large the professional writers and performers do a better job.
>
> A lot of the material on the web is the same as the professional texts, and
is often more up to date.  Many of the key reference books for some of the
technologies you're talking about here are available online as a creative
commons licensed work with the same exact material as in the book.

Another option would be O'Reilly's "Safari" online ebook service, or Amazon
Kindle type ebooks.
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