Where can I send my editorial comments, if you even want them? I also have something to say about the first example in chapter 2, the cd final example.
Dave, an idea: It might be useful for you to include some text in the revised edition that shows (fairly specifically) how something WAS done in the first edition, where you've revise a section. Even some of the replaced sample code. It might be an excellent way for readers to realize "Hey, that's the way I've done it in several programs. I'll improve it the way Dave has."
Heck, if bytes aren't expensive, maybe you could do this in the form of having the first edition by an Appendix, and the notes I've described above could be the effect of "The Circles.pm module used in the first edition (see section 7.13 of the first edition, in the Appendix) was replaced by the Trigonometry.pm module, which is actively maintained." Etc.
Thank you for a really interesting post - and yes web scraping definitely is harder nowadays - even parsing emails is tricky! I haven't done any perl ages you are tempting me back in!
I just signed up for your posts so this is my first update. Is there a target date for the new book. Would you like someone to proof read? I'd be happy to give it a go. I have a friend that's after me to read the first edition, so it's kind of on my to-do list anyway.
Dave,
Where can I send my editorial comments, if you even want them? I also have something to say about the first example in chapter 2, the cd final example.
Thanks,
Matthew
I'm always happy to recieve email at dave@davecross.co.uk
Dave, an idea: It might be useful for you to include some text in the revised edition that shows (fairly specifically) how something WAS done in the first edition, where you've revise a section. Even some of the replaced sample code. It might be an excellent way for readers to realize "Hey, that's the way I've done it in several programs. I'll improve it the way Dave has."
Heck, if bytes aren't expensive, maybe you could do this in the form of having the first edition by an Appendix, and the notes I've described above could be the effect of "The Circles.pm module used in the first edition (see section 7.13 of the first edition, in the Appendix) was replaced by the Trigonometry.pm module, which is actively maintained." Etc.
Thank you for a really interesting post - and yes web scraping definitely is harder nowadays - even parsing emails is tricky! I haven't done any perl ages you are tempting me back in!
I just signed up for your posts so this is my first update. Is there a target date for the new book. Would you like someone to proof read? I'd be happy to give it a go. I have a friend that's after me to read the first edition, so it's kind of on my to-do list anyway.
Matthew
The target date was last Christmas. But real life got in the way and we're still probably at least a month away.
But, in the meantime, you can buy a work-in-progress version from LeanPub which will be updated on a regular basis while I'm working on it.
https://leanpub.com/datamungingwithperl
Thanks!