Tuesday, 05/02/06

I posted a while ago (a long time chronologically; not a long time pageologically) about the limited access to Safari Books Online available through the Seattle Public Library. While a three-calendar-year window into books published only by O'Reilly Media is a step down from vast cornucopia of publishers and timeframes offered by a full Safari subscription, the library's service is free to cardholders, and that's nothing to sneeze at.

I noticed recently that the SPL version also includes access to books in progress, by way of O'Reilly's Rough Cuts program. Half-finished O'Reilly titles are most likely preferable to open source documentation in its final form. The Rails Cookbook is up now, for instance. 02:05PM «

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