The new Pickaxe II book is a reality!

[Warren Brown]

To everyone eagerly awaiting Dave's new book:

Yesterday I received my brand-spanking-new, hot-off-the-presses,
personally signed (thanks Dave!), one-and-a-half inch thick copy of the
new Pickaxe II book. It looks great, is chocked full of great new
stuff, and is destined to become a best seller.

Coming *real* soon to a bookstore near you...

 

[Nathaniel Talbott]

To everyone eagerly awaiting Dave's new book:

Yesterday I received my brand-spanking-new, hot-off-the-presses,
personally signed (thanks Dave!), one-and-a-half inch thick copy of the
new Pickaxe II book. It looks great, is chocked full of great new
stuff, and is destined to become a best seller.

Coming *real* soon to a bookstore near you...

/me drools

19 hours and counting...


Nathaniel
Terralien, Inc.

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[Dave Thomas]

Coming *real* soon to a bookstore near you...

Warren's copy came early because he was a reviewer. However, as of
today we've shipped off all the the existing pre-orders (signed, of
course . The folks at RubyConf should be the first to see theirs, but
the mailed copies should be arriving soon.

We're now taking (and shipping) regular orders. The PDFs will start
shipping first thing in the morning

PickAxe II is now officially available!


Cheers

Dave

 

[Simon Strandgaard]

On Thursday 30 September 2004 20:08, Dave Thomas wrote:
[snip]

PickAxe II is now officially available!

Congrats Dave+Andy+rest of pickaxe team with the book.

This is really something big.

 

[Mike Clark]

Got mine in Colorado today. I *love* the lay-flat binding. And
believe me, it's going to get a lot of use.

A most excellent piece of work, Dave, Chad, and Andy!

Mike

 

[Victor Reyes]

PLEASSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSEEEEEEEEEEEE stop enjoying it so much. I am
still waiting for my copy.

Victor

 

[Florian Weber]

PLEASSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSEEEEEEEEEEEE stop enjoying it so much. I am
still waiting for my copy.

i heard some people already got emails because of the pdf version.
i didn't get anything yet.. is it pdf version officially out yet?

 

[Victor Reyes]

Yes it is. I got my PDF version this morning!

Victo

 

[Dave Thomas]

i heard some people already got emails because of the pdf version.
i didn't get anything yet.. is it pdf version officially out yet?

It is, and we're currently working through a fairly decent sized
backlog sending them all out. We should be up-to-date sometime today.



Cheers

Dave

 

[Luc Heinrich]

i heard some people already got emails because of the pdf version.
i didn't get anything yet.. is it pdf version officially out yet?

Yes. I have received a notification email this morning (Paris/GMT+1)
saying that my PDF download was ready, and indeed it was.

And as expected, Pickaxe II rules.

Still waiting for my dead-tree version to cross the Atlantic though, the
PDF is very convenient to have on the Powerbook, but it just can't
replace the Proustian fragrance of ink and paper

 

[Chad Fowler]

It is, and we're currently working through a fairly decent sized
backlog sending them all out. We should be up-to-date sometime today.

Writing from RubyConf (http://rubycentral.org)....

The books look FANTASTIC! Congratulations, Dave! Excellent job.

Chad

 

[Roeland Moors]

i heard some people already got emails because of the pdf version.
i didn't get anything yet.. is it pdf version officially out yet?

I recieved mine. The pdf is huge

 

[Richard Lyman]

How huge??

-Rich

I recieved mine. The pdf is huge

 

[Stephan Kämper]

How huge??

-Rich

Mine is 5.776.818 Bytes. And it's not only huge, it's also great! ;-)

Thanks Dave and everyone who made this book possible.

Stephan

 

[Dave Thomas]

Mine is 5.776.818 Bytes. And it's not only huge, it's also great! ;-)

Yeah - that's why we have a backlog... )


Cheers

Dave

 

[Stephan Kämper]

Yeah - that's why we have a backlog... )

A backlog in shipping PDFs? That sounds like a big number of orders...

Happy rubying (and shipping)

Stephan

 

[Robert McGovern]

i heard some people already got emails because of the pdf version.

Yes. I have received a notification email this morning (Paris/GMT+1)
saying that my PDF download was ready, and indeed it was.

Same here, annoyingly I wasn't at home to download it till a little while ago

One thing I hadn't realised till reading the preface was that Andy
wasn't directly involved in this edition.

Cheers to all involved in making the 2nd edition a reality!

Rob

 

[Stephan Kämper]

Yeah - that's why we have a backlog... )

BTW, are there any plans for translations? To French, German, Japanese?

Happy rubying

Stephan (on page 51 and counting) :-D

 

[Nikolai Weibull]

Yeah - that's why we have a backlog... )

I guess the size of your backlog (alt. the number of PDFs in total)
is a good indication of how much Ruby has grown; provided that you have
information regarding the first release. It'd only be a two-point
graph, still...
nikolai

 

[Dave Thomas]

BTW, are there any plans for translations? To French, German, Japanese?

I'm not sure: we asked ASCII in Japan (who translated the other
Bookshelf books), and they weren't sure. They're concerned about the
size.

Perhaps some requests from folks in Japan might help...


Cheers

Dave