[Tallahassee-pm] Oops. Forgot some news!

[Keller, Scott]

Jamie,

That all sounds great! Have we decided when and where the first meeting is?

FWIW, here's my Safari review:
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The Safari e-book subscription service is just what the doctor ordered for
developers that need comprehensive help yesterday. Having over 1000 books by
O'Reilly, Addison-Wesley and other top name tech publishers available when
and where you need them allows you to get up to speed quickly on virtually
any development topic.

The subscription is offered on an individual or corporate basis. The one
problem I have with the individual subscription is that you can pay almost
as much as a corporate subscriber (as I currently do, paying $30 a month
versus a yearly corporate subscription that starts at a $35 equivalent), yet
have to maintain a "personal library" of a certain number of books (my $30
level allows me to keep 30 books and change them out for other books in the
Safari library 1 month after I subscribe to them). The corporate
subscription, on the other hand, gives you unlimited access to the over 1000
books currently available.

I've heard some say that they don't like to read books online. I can tell
these folks haven't tried Safari. Certainly, I wouldn't read a book cover to
cover online. The nature of programming; however, is that you often need
only one or two key chapters in many different books. The Safari
subscription allows you to easily find these key chapters by virtue of the
search functions. In addition, any code samples can easily be copied and
pasted for quick trial without worrying about loading a CD, etc. Finally,
because it is on the web, all these books are available to you whereever you
happen to be, as long as you have a display and a connection to the
internet. That beats carrying around 50 pounds of books, only to find that
you left the one you really needed back at the office.
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Have a good one,

Scott

-----Original Message-----
From: James Tillman [mailto:jtillman at bigfoot.com]
Sent: Thursday, February 06, 2003 8:01 PM
To: tallahassee-pm at mail.pm.org
Subject: [Tallahassee-pm] Oops. Forgot some news!


I forgot to mention that I've signed up the Tallahassee PerlMongers with
the O'Reilly User Group Program.  This is a surprisingly cool program
that O'Reilly runs to encourage user groups related to technologies that
it publishes books about.  Perl is one of their main subjects.

So far, I have received 2 FREE books in the mail that we should consider
to be owned by the Tally.pm group:  Computer Science and Perl
Programming, and Embedding Perl in HTML with Mason.  Both of these are
very recent books!  If you're interested in borrowing either book from
the previously non-existent "Tallahassee.pm Library", then please come
to the first meeting and I'll have them on hand.

In addition, O'Reilly is also giving away a free one year's subscription
to their Safari Online Book program for one of our members who signs up
for a trial subscription and writes a review of it (good or bad!) that
we post on our web site.  I propose that we have a drawing at the
meeting to let all interested parties have a fair shot.  If you have a
better idea for a fair shake, let me know.

I figured this news might get you more interested in coming to our first
meeting!!

jpt

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