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Re: Scrounged books are not always good.

by Ninthwave (Chaplain)
on May 21, 2006 at 05:09 UTC ( [id://550752]=note: print w/replies, xml ) Need Help??


in reply to Scrounged books are not always good.

Have your boss get a trial safari.oreilly.com account as I see they now do enterprise. (though I cannot find the pricing, I know you were talking about freebies sorry, but a tech industry should not rely on stale print libraries unless the internal code is going to stay locked in versions akin to the stale print reference.)

If you have coders, have a code friendly library at a cost that meets the volume of usage.

That said I never throw out books, I like reference material. Someday I may read them and someday I may learn to code well.

Sorry I have to plug safari, I found it to be a truly great service and is changing my way of approaching tech books. But that said the Black Book is a great reference for looking up things quickly especially when search terms are just confusing you in google. Though I can not remember the edition we had at the last place I worked. Do they even still sell those.... something to look for.

"No matter where you go, there you are." BB

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Re^2: Scrounged books are not always good.
by spiritway (Vicar) on May 25, 2006 at 05:59 UTC
    Sorry I have to plug safari, I found it to be a truly great service and is changing my way of approaching tech books.

    I have it; I found it very useful. The great thing is that you can check out a book without buying it. This avoids the "shelf-creep" that happens when you wind up getting marginally useful books that you hate to throw out, but never really use. They just take up space. With Safari you can read the entire book if you want, and decide whether it's worth adding to your paper library. It has already saved me a pile of money on books, as well as allowed me to check out subjects that I would otherwise have skipped because of the price of buying a whole book on the subject.

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