<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 27/04/06, <b class="gmail_sendername">Harley Mackenzie</b> <<a href="mailto:hjm@bigpond.com">hjm@bigpond.com</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
During the recent "What a waste of time" thread, it was raised that Catalyst doesnt have an "Agile Web Development with Rails" book available. I dont want to waste anyones time discussing the obvious bait in this thread, but the point is valid that the whole Catalyst community would greatly benefit from a comprehensive book.
<br><br> * Does Catalyst have enough momentum and support to sustain a book?<br> * Without giving away confidential information, is anyone aware of a book deing developed?<br><br>I would guess that any prospective publisher would be either OReilly, Apress, Manning (they dont seem to be too active in the Perl arena of late) or as an outside WROX (seem to go more for all in one books rather than specialist subjects). If there isnt a work in progress, is it worth developing a book proposal?
</blockquote><div><br>Well, I'm all for helping develop a self-published pdf a la 47 signals. Sri seems to be most receptive to this approach as well. I think the most significant barrier to doing this is a. getting people to do serious work for no advance, and b. getting a real professional publishing editor on board.
<br><br>I've got my own proposal to work up in the not too distant future, so that is someone elses problem as it were.<br></div><br>I was also planning on doing some serious market research on the existing catalyst populatin on the not too distant futrure as well, but that is dependent on things like $job.
<br><br>But in a brief answer to your question, yes, probably.<br></div>