On Wed, 07 Dec 2011 23:56:19 +0100 Nicolas Charles <nicolas.char...@normation.com> wrote:
>> Check it out here http://www.packtpub.com/cfengine-3-beginners-guide/book NC> I've ordered this book a couple of weeks ago and start to review it, to NC> see if my team would learn from it. I really have mixed feelings about NC> this book.. some parts are really well thought and explains correctly, NC> while some others make me want to remove my eyes to prevent me from NC> reading more from this book. I don't know if it the reviewer who edited NC> too much and added some error, or if some part where lately added NC> without any review, but there are code snipets that are simply wrong, NC> and the explanation which seems related to others codes. NC> The most annoying part is the non-consistent indentation of code NC> examples, explanations and function description, along with the very NC> common layout problems. NC> I still have to download from the web site the example to see if they NC> reflect the content of the book, and I intend to write to the editor to NC> have him correct the most obvious. I reviewed some Packt books (SimpleDB, Cassandra, Perl, and other topics) and could not write too many positive things. Besides spelling and layout problems, the content was just not very good. So this is not a problem with just the CFEngine book from them, in my opinion. O'Reilly has some good competition (Apress, Pragmatic, and others) but Packt is not in that league. Ted _______________________________________________ Help-cfengine mailing list Help-cfengine@cfengine.org https://cfengine.org/mailman/listinfo/help-cfengine
