[Catalyst] O'Reilly Radar

[Christopher H. Laco]

Sebastian Riedel wrote:
> 
> 08.12.2005 18:28 Ovid:
> 
>> Hi all,
>>
>> My apologies if this has already been posted.  I didn't see a link to
>> it.
>>
>> http://radar.oreilly.com/archives/2005/12/ruby_book_sales_surpass_python.html
>>
>> Or:  http://tinyurl.com/ae37b
>>
>> For anyone who's interested in a bit of advocacy, there's an
>> interesting O'Reilly Radar entry about Ruby book sales finally
>> surpassing Python book sales -- mostly only the strength of Rails.  As
>> for the bit which might interest Catalyst developers:
>>
>>   Ruby on Rails is indeed, as Jonathan suggests, the driver
>>   of the interest in Ruby, which, after all, has been around
>>   for years without generating the kind of surge it's seen
>>   in the past six months. But as you can see, we're on the
>>   fence about whether or not Python has an answer to RoR (and
>>   we're not even asking the question about Perl!)
>>
>> Make of that what you will.
> 
> It's really no surprise, we asked O'Reilly if they would like to publish
> a Catalyst book a few weeks ago, they said no and indicated that they
> only want to support one framework at all...

Whah? I think O'Reilly has, or is slipping off the deep end over the
last year. I'm not sure if it's a too-big-for-our-britches syndrome, or
just a loss of touch with the community; the flip flop from publishing
quality books towards publishing what buzzwords the sheep hear and look for.

-=Chris
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