Re: [Hampshire] Book Reviews news

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Author: Brad Macpherson
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To: adam.trickett, Hampshire LUG Discussion List
Subject: Re: [Hampshire] Book Reviews news

On 16 Apr 2009, at 13:12, Dr A. J. Trickett wrote:

>>>
>>> I've just had an email from O'Reilly they are keen for us to
>>> review books
>>> too.
>>>
>>> Here is a list of some of their recent books, there are more
>>> possibles on
>>> their web site. http://oreilly.com/
>>>
>>> grep Pocket Reference
>>> Version Control with Git
>>> Enterprise Recipes with Ruby and Rails
>>> Ubuntu Kung Fu
>>> Version Control with Subversion, Second Edition
>>> Python for Unix and Linux System Administration
>>> Building Embedded Linux Systems, Second Edition
>>> Learning the vi and Vim Editors, Seventh Edition
>>> Linux Networking Cookbook
>>> Security Power Tools
>>> Learning Perl, Fifth Edition
>>> Wicked Cool Ruby Scripts
>>> Beautiful Security
>>> Automating System Administration with Perl, Second Edition
>>> The Myths of Security
>>>
>> Adam,
>>
>> Are you accepting bids?
>
> Yes, review a book and it's yours! I'll collate requests and
> distribute books on a first come fisrt served basis. I'll pass all
> the requests on to O'Reilly and see what turns up in the post.
>
>> Recently, I've been ploughing through several of my old 'basics'
>> books as a
>> revision exercise, so I feel ideally placed to review the grep, vi
>> and Perl
>> books.
>
> Noted.
>



G'day Adam,

If no-one else has already asked, I'd be interested in reviewing the
Git and Subversion books. The OO and Linux/Mac books from APress are
still available for others to review too.

Oh and any Perl books that no-one's grabbed :-)

Cheers

Brad