[JaxPM] New Perl Book (fwd)

[j proctor]

On the jacksonville-pm-list; Jax.PM'er j proctor <jproctor at oit.umass.edu> wrote -


> Being new to the JAX Perl Mongers, how does one learn of these new books
> coming out as soon as you guys did?

A.  Hang around the Perl Mongers awhile, go to the conferences, etc., and
you get to know the authors.  

B.  Hang out on other Perl Mongers lists.  I'm in western Massachusetts,
so I'm on the Boston.pm, Hartford.pm, and a couple of other very low
traffic lists (Albany.pm, HudsonValley.pm, Pioneer Valley.pm) that are all
in my area.  Since there's really no geographical requirement, you can
join any list in the world.  Boston has a lot of the people that write the
books and present sessions at the conferences; they're pretty good about   
posting when interesting new things happen.  There's a lot of other
traffic, too (mostly in spurts), so don't join just for book
announcements.

C.  Some publishers actually have mailing lists to announce books.  Our
fearless leader, Sneex, is on at least O'Reilly's list.  

D.  Community web sites (Slashdot, Kuro5hin, Use Perl, PerlMonks, etc.)
all mention stuff like that occasionally.  Bookselling sites (especially
good ones for techy stuff like fatbrain and bookpool) will respond to
general searches for Perl (or whatever) with books that have been
announced by the publishing companies, but aren't available yet.  Try it
sometime.

E.  Pure, random luck.

Welcome to the wonderful world of Perl.


j


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