On 9/20/05, Kuba Ober kuba@mareimbrium.org wrote:
Wouldn't such a book be mostly obsolete within a year of publication? That's almost like with those linux kernel development books: in 2 years timeframe they are mostly paperweights, unless you're interested only in 'big ideas' rather than details.
Well, that's one of the things I wrestle with. Some of the stuff is just cool ideas that won't get outdated any time soon. Some of it will get outdated... and then the publisher can pay me for the second addition.
Holly - I should also mention that you'll want to make sure you have well-formed SGML when you write the docs, i.e. all opening tags must have a closing tag. I find xmllint and tidy are very helpful for that. tidy has easier output to understand, xmllint seems to be pretty standard on distros these days.
-Brian