[LRUG] Oh! Happy day! Free Books

[John Scholes]

There are two hidden costs to books, both larger than the cost of the 
book: (1) you have to put them somewhere - my (quite large flat) has run 
out of wallspace for bookshelves, so I am now renting storage space for 
a dozen further bookcases; (2) you have to read them (well, you can just 
pretend you are absorbing knowledge by osmosis I suppose).

On the second point, has anyone had a chance to compare the RailsSpace 
book with the Apress offering: Alan Bradburne, Practical Rails Social 
Networking Sites?

I found it a bit hard to tell from the Amazon.com reviews (usually more 
of them than the .co.uk ones), but my impression was that the Bradburne 
book might be better.

Any thoughts anyone?

John

> Um, Professional Ruby Collection looks pretty good. I'm quite interested
> in that...
>
> t.
>
> On 9/10/2007, "Murray Steele" <murray.steele at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>   
>> Hi all,
>>
>> Addison-Wesley have kindly sent me a copy each of:
>>
>> * RailsSpace: Buildingg A Social Neworking Website With Ruby On Rails (
>> http://www.railsspace.com/) - a book
>> * Professional Ruby Collection: CD1 (
>> http://www.pearsoned.co.uk/Bookshop/detail.asp?item=100000000261726) - a cd
>> with a book
>>
>> I'll bring them along to the meeting tonight to give out to those who want
>> them (register your interest here, in event of multiple-parties being
>> interested it's a rock paper scissor tournament).  I imagine that they'll be
>> wanting reviews for these books, so there is a price to pay for taking them.
>>
>> Cheers
>>
>> Muz
>>     
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