... Hmm, predicting Java's demise based on book sales? Does that trigger anyone else's WTF? bit? Sounds like something someone from O'Reilly would write. Oh,...
OH MY GOD. It's bad enough that Hendrickson felt this was worth writing -- and worse that CNet felt like it was worth reposting. Are they MORONS?! ... Joseph...
If anyone's planning on interviewing with google any time soon, I highly recommend that you download the slides from this presentation and study and practice...
Yeah, this is crap reporting. There are possibly many reasons why the sales of Java books and books in general are trending downward. This smells to me like...
If I remember correctly, they have been doing this for a few years. I believe last year had the same "Java is declining" issue. On Tue, Mar 4, 2008 at 1:13 PM,...
I have to admit that if they analyzed my programming book buying over the last few years it would follow the same trend they are seeing. I certainly don't do...
... They have been. But the idea isn't complete crap. The premise is that tech books sales are something of a "leading indicator" of important technology...
... I think that's exactly the point - again, that it's a *leading* indicator of negative growth. You haven't bought Java books. Neither have I. Neither...
David, I have to disagree. I think that Java has reached a threshold that no other language has. I noticed that all the local bookstores carry far less Java ...
... I agree 150%, and have what I consider and excellent example to back up that perspective. EMF (Eclipse Modeling Framework) is, quite arguably, the most ...
On Tue, Mar 4, 2008 at 1:43 PM, David Rosenstrauch <darose@...> ... Except that if you look at the base data the language that had the most titles and...
... Original question aside, I think this is a bad example. There's only 1 EMF book ever been published, so there's no overall trend you can glean from that....
Just stumbled onto an interesting Java resource I've never seen before: http://www.java2s.com/ Its Java Tutorial section in particular is really helpful: code...
... I've occasionally stumbled into one of their "tutorial" code pages via Google, but always found them to be trivial and lacking useful explanation. Good if...
... As I see it, if there are areas within the "Java" category that have strong growth coupled with weak book presence, that invalidates the usage of book...
I tend to buy methodology, design, and architectural books now moreso than any particular language or technology books. But the code that I write at work, is...
... Agreed to some extent - it's not too helpful for anything in-depth. I was just pretty impressed though that they had the perfect code example for exactly...
... You've mentioned that before. I'm curious what this field like? Is there much research and "innovation" (for want of a better term) in these areas of...
I have a friend with a computer science degree. He recently graduated with a masters in archeology and is pursuing a phd. In our discussions, I have been...
Uhh yeah the field has quite interesting openings. Firstly, the archeology can change dramatically over time, e.g. the Vindolanda tablets which tell us an...
... Which only lends further credence to the argument, IMO. Publishers try hard to gauge what books will sell and what won't before they invest in them. So...
... Agree to disagree, I guess. I think that on topics where there's a sizable statistical sample you can extrapolate some trends, and on topics where there's...
Erm. Okay, books bought and sold: WHAT KIND of books? Print? The market for books - from an insider, who works at APress, with the same name that I managed to...
Jo, You bring up an important point. I hate ORA books. Also SAMS and WROX. To me, they are just poorly designed for reading. I have never bought one. If it has...
... I'm glad I'm not the only one who despises WROX books. I had to take a VB class a few years back and the book for the class was a WROX book. It was at...
... Ok, now you tweaked a cord.... WROX books are a function of the editing process.. Now I've had my fun with WROX. One book in particular that I had a big...
Well, I sort of work for Wrox now - as Apress purchased the brand a while back - but I don't think I disagree with you that Wrox wasn't a very effective...
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