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Re: No summaries for the two previous weeks

From:
Reini Urban
Date:
August 3, 2008 12:39
Subject:
Re: No summaries for the two previous weeks
Message ID:
48960942.2060809@x-ray.at
Tom Christiansen schrieb:
> In-Reply-To: Message from Reini Urban <rurban@x-ray.at> 
>    of "Sun, 03 Aug 2008 17:11:08 +0200." <4895CA8C.8090604@x-ray.at> 
> 
>> David Landgren schrieb(t:):
> 
>>> just a note to apologise for the lack of summaries over the past
>>> two weeks (prior to last week). I simply haven't had time; I had
>>> only about two hours spare over the fortnight stretch.
> 
> Which probably isn't enough time to read just my (unnecessarily 
> voluminous) postings alone. :-(
> 
>> David,
> 
>> For the last two June you put out at least the rough summary at
>> http://www.landgren.net/perl/p5psumm/
> 
> Thanks for the pointer.
> 
>> Please continue. We already have August.
> 
> Not sure what the final sentence means?

... with weekly summaries, not monthly.

I'm sure it was you who scared him away. :)
How to summarize a book in one sentence every week?
Sounds like an O'Reilly editors job to me. But those
get paid well for this. Maybe we should ask Allison[1]
to do the TC summaries for her dayjob and post it
online as defense for the classic books.

[1] http://www.theperlreview.com/Interviews/allison-randal-20060412.html
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Reini Urban
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