From rjbs-perl-abe at lists.manxome.org Mon Oct 24 12:32:52 2005 From: rjbs-perl-abe at lists.manxome.org (Ricardo SIGNES) Date: Mon, 24 Oct 2005 15:32:52 -0400 Subject: [ABE.pm] [mjd@plover.com: Final announcement for book signing] Message-ID: <20051024193252.GR32150@manxome.org> Here's the announcement of a book signing and reading in Philly by Mark- Jason Dominus. He'll be signing his book, Higher-Order Perl. Higher-Order Perl is a fantastic book, and if you do much Perl programming, it's a must-have. I wrote a review of it for our wiki some time ago: http://abe.pm.org/wiki/index.cgi?HigherOrderPerl If you are going to be in the area, or just want to see someone interesting presenting something interesting, I suggest you stop by. ----- Forwarded message from Mark Jason Dominus ----- On Thursday night the University of Pennsylvania Bookstore in Philadelphia will be hosting a reading and signing of my recent book "Higher-Order Perl". "Higher-Order Perl" is about applying functional programming techniques from the academic research world to the kind of engineering tasks that programmers need to do all the time. The examples are in Perl, a language that is mostly known as a Unix system administration utility and for writing interactive programs to run on the Web. So the book really is about getting the fancy academic stuff to work in a down-and-dirty programming environment, and talks about when and why you would want to do that. Randal Schwartz, the author of "Learning Perl", says: It's a great book ... Definitely going to go on my serious re-reading list. Peter Norvig, Director of Search Quality at Google, says: There are lots of books that teach you new Perl modules or techniques. This book goes beyond that and teaches a new way to think about Perl programming. So if you've been progrmaming in Perl for a while, here is your opportunity to advance your Perl programming to the next level. Thursday, October 27 6:00 PM Penn Bookstore 3601 Walnut Street Philadelphia I hope to see you there! Here's the official announcement: ---------------------------------------------------------------- Penn Bookstore 3601 Walnut Street * Philadelphia * 215.898.7595 www.upenn.edu/bookstore FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: Christine Hibbard Functional Programming Techniques in Perl Revealed Penn Perl programmer Mark Jason Dominus will present "Higher-Order Perl: Transforming Programs with Programs" on October 27 at 6:00 p.m. Perl is a UNIX-based scripting language that is often used on the one of the most popular languages for writing CGI scripts for web pages. In "Higher-Order Perl," Mark Jason Dominus illuminates Perl techniques that resemble Lisp far more than C. By learning Dominus's techniques, a programmer can accomplish things in Perl that can't be done any other way and automate tasks that would be a struggle to handle conventionally. According to Sean M. Burke, Leading Programmer of the Comprehensive Perl Network, " 'Higher-Order Perl' is the most exciting, most clearly-written, most comprehensive and most forward-looking programming book I've reading the last ten years. It's your map to the future of programming in any language." Mark Jason Dominus is the author of the Tie::File, Test::Template and Memoize modules, the perlreftut man page, and is an occasional contributor the the Perl core. Dominus won the 2001 Larry Wall Award for Practical Utility. All events at the Penn Bookstore are free and open to the public. A great selection of books is just the beginning... Christine Hibbard Community Relations and Events Coordinator Penn Bookstore 3601 Walnut Street Philadelphia, PA 19104 215-898-7595 chibbard at pobox.upenn.edu www.upenn.edu/bookstore We extend a 10% discount to Barnes & Noble "Member Card" members on general reading titles, music, movies, Penn insignia gift items and Cafe purchases. ----- End forwarded message ----- -- rjbs -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 189 bytes Desc: not available Url : http://mail.pm.org/pipermail/abe-pm/attachments/20051024/41ecca90/attachment.bin From rhkramer at gmail.com Tue Oct 25 06:32:01 2005 From: rhkramer at gmail.com (Randy Kramer) Date: Tue, 25 Oct 2005 09:32:01 -0400 Subject: [ABE.pm] [mjd@plover.com: Final announcement for book signing] In-Reply-To: <20051024193252.GR32150@manxome.org> References: <20051024193252.GR32150@manxome.org> Message-ID: <200510250932.01167.rhkramer@gmail.com> On Monday 24 October 2005 03:32 pm, Ricardo SIGNES wrote: > Here's the announcement of a book signing and reading in Philly by Mark- > Jason Dominus. He'll be signing his book, Higher-Order Perl. > Higher-Order Perl is a fantastic book, and if you do much Perl > programming, it's a must-have. I wrote a review of it for our wiki some > time ago: I won't make it, but I'm curious about how a book signing works. I suppose the author signs books just bought (or about to be bought) from that bookstore. Do they typically charge more for the autographed version, either by an extra fee, or perhaps selling the book at full cover price versus the bookstore's (maybe) more normal discounted price? (Or maybe discount book stores don't host book signings? thanks, Randy Kramer From rjbs-perl-abe at lists.manxome.org Tue Oct 25 10:31:30 2005 From: rjbs-perl-abe at lists.manxome.org (Ricardo SIGNES) Date: Tue, 25 Oct 2005 13:31:30 -0400 Subject: [ABE.pm] [mjd@plover.com: Final announcement for book signing] In-Reply-To: <200510250932.01167.rhkramer@gmail.com> References: <20051024193252.GR32150@manxome.org> <200510250932.01167.rhkramer@gmail.com> Message-ID: <20051025173130.GS32150@manxome.org> * Randy Kramer [2005-10-25T09:32:01] > On Monday 24 October 2005 03:32 pm, Ricardo SIGNES wrote: > > Here's the announcement of a book signing and reading in Philly by Mark- > > Jason Dominus. He'll be signing his book, Higher-Order Perl. > > Higher-Order Perl is a fantastic book, and if you do much Perl > > programming, it's a must-have. I wrote a review of it for our wiki some > > time ago: > > I won't make it, but I'm curious about how a book signing works. I suppose > the author signs books just bought (or about to be bought) from that > bookstore. Do they typically charge more for the autographed version, either > by an extra fee, or perhaps selling the book at full cover price versus the > bookstore's (maybe) more normal discounted price? (Or maybe discount book > stores don't host book signings? Surely this decision is made by the author and the bookstore, and is not strictly decided by tradition for all signings. Some authors will sign anything you present them (within reason) and others will only sign "what's on the table." I have never heard of anyone charging extra for a book signed in-store. -- rjbs -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 189 bytes Desc: not available Url : http://mail.pm.org/pipermail/abe-pm/attachments/20051025/d7d96938/attachment.bin From rhkramer at gmail.com Wed Oct 26 12:37:52 2005 From: rhkramer at gmail.com (Randy Kramer) Date: Wed, 26 Oct 2005 15:37:52 -0400 Subject: [ABE.pm] [mjd@plover.com: Final announcement for book signing] In-Reply-To: <20051025173130.GS32150@manxome.org> References: <20051024193252.GR32150@manxome.org> <200510250932.01167.rhkramer@gmail.com> <20051025173130.GS32150@manxome.org> Message-ID: <200510261537.52675.rhkramer@gmail.com> On Tuesday 25 October 2005 01:31 pm, Ricardo SIGNES wrote: > Surely this decision is made by the author and the bookstore, and is not > strictly decided by tradition for all signings. Some authors will sign > anything you present them (within reason) and others will only sign > "what's on the table." > > I have never heard of anyone charging extra for a book signed in-store. Ricardo, Sounds logical--thanks! Randy Kramer