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Can anyone recommend a particular book? So far we have: +Object-Oriented JavaScript - Second Edition +Building Machine Learning Systems with Python +Data Visualization: a successful design process +Infinispan Data Grid Platform
PostgreSQL 9 Admin Cookbook and PostgreSQL 9.0 High Performance
There are some comments about the quality of the books, let me share my opinion. When a book is written for Packt (this is my experience): 1) The author submits his draft chapters to reviewers (there are two or three reviewers per book) - and they provide feedback. The author then has to address all comments from the reviewers, either to correct something (or to make it clearer and understandable) or to reply why it…
That particular author had a less-than-stellar grasp of English, and the "review" process was much more a "rewrite" process.
There are some comments about the quality of the books, let me share my opinion. When a book is written for Packt (this is my experience): 1) The author submits his draft chapters to reviewers (there are two or three reviewers per book) - and they provide feedback. The author then has to address all comments from the reviewers, either to correct something (or to make it clearer and understandable) or to reply why it…
There are some comments about the quality of the books, let me share my opinion. When a book is written for Packt (this is my experience): 1) The author submits his draft chapters to reviewers (there are two or three reviewers per book) - and they provide feedback. The author then has to address all comments from the reviewers, either to correct something (or to make it clearer and understandable) or to reply why it…
I was contacted by Packt yesterday to write a book on KnockoutJS. I am an expert in the subject matter, however, I'm currently working a full time dev job, a part time dev job at nights, and my startup on the weekends. So, I declined. Now that I see some of the comments here about quantity over quality, I'm feeling better about my decision to turn it down.
That sounds neat. How did you get a part-time dev job?
There are some comments about the quality of the books, let me share my opinion. When a book is written for Packt (this is my experience): 1) The author submits his draft chapters to reviewers (there are two or three reviewers per book) - and they provide feedback. The author then has to address all comments from the reviewers, either to correct something (or to make it clearer and understandable) or to reply why it…
Can I just ask, as somebody who is currently reviewing a book for Packt on the FuelPHP framework, I've found the actual technical content to be quite good. But the foreword and a bit of background info about FuelPHP at the front seemed like it had been written by another author entirely. Do Packt add in non-technical chapters such as this?
There are some comments about the quality of the books, let me share my opinion. When a book is written for Packt (this is my experience): 1) The author submits his draft chapters to reviewers (there are two or three reviewers per book) - and they provide feedback. The author then has to address all comments from the reviewers, either to correct something (or to make it clearer and understandable) or to reply why it…
Can I just ask, as somebody who is currently reviewing a book for Packt on the FuelPHP framework, I've found the actual technical content to be quite good. But the foreword and a bit of background info about FuelPHP at the front seemed like it had been written by another author entirely. Do Packt add in non-technical chapters such as this?
There are some comments about the quality of the books, let me share my opinion. When a book is written for Packt (this is my experience): 1) The author submits his draft chapters to reviewers (there are two or three reviewers per book) - and they provide feedback. The author then has to address all comments from the reviewers, either to correct something (or to make it clearer and understandable) or to reply why it…
Can I just ask, as somebody who is currently reviewing a book for Packt on the FuelPHP framework, I've found the actual technical content to be quite good. But the foreword and a bit of background info about FuelPHP at the front seemed like it had been written by another author entirely. Do Packt add in non-technical chapters such as this?
These are $5 for a reason. http://www.reddit.com/r/haskell/comments/1rj2jq/book_haskell...
It really seemed their plan was "James takes almost all the risk and does almost all of the work but James does not get almost all the money."