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At 9:11 PM on Dec 28, 2007, Meera Subbarao wrote:
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We have several reviews lined up for 2008 and here is a preview of what's coming up.
1. Implementation Patterns by Kent Beck.
2. Building Spring 2 Enterprise Applications by Bram Smeets, Seth Ladd
3. RailsSpace: Building a Social Networking Website with Ruby on Rails by Michael Hartl; Aurelius Prochazka
4. Oracle Essentials by Rick Greenwald, Robert Stackowiak, Jonathan Stern
5. Practical JRuby on Rails Web 2.0 Projects: Bringing Ruby on Rails to the Java(tm) Platform by Ola Bini
6. Beginning Spring 2: From Novice to Professional By Dave Minter
7. SOA Security by Ramarao Kanneganti and Prasad A. Chodavarapu
8. JBoss in Action Javid Jamae and Peter Johnson
9. Windows Vista Annoyances by David A. Karp
10. The CSS Anthology: 101 Essential Tips, Tricks & Hacks, 2nd Edition by Rachel Andrew
If you would like to be a part of the Book Review Team, or would like us to publish a review for the book you already own, let us know.
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Thanks for you hard work in 2007, Hope you can do more and better worksRe: Book Reviews coming in 2008.
Thanks. These are the reviews which will be published in the coming weeks. So, we will do our best to publish many more.Re: Book Reviews coming in 2008.
anybody know which manuscript format and writing tool used by these technical authors and publishers(such as oreilly,manning...)?docbook? LaTeX? ... others?
thanks.
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Hi Steven,I have contact with most of these publishers, I will find out and let you know.
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many thanks to you Meera. I think this is one interesting subjectRe: Book Reviews coming in 2008.
Both Eelco and I (authors of Wicket in Action ) use Pages for writing our manuscript after starting with docbook, moving to open office and settling on Pages.We export our documents to MS Word format which is handled by our publisher.
To start each chapter we use a standard word template provided by Manning which gives us the ability to tag paragraphs with their meaning: chapter heading, level A heading, level B heading, code, figure head, etc. This should be automatically transformed by the importer into the final DTP software (iirc Framemaker).
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You mean in general most publishers and authors use MS Word?Re: Book Reviews coming in 2008.
I can only speak for our publisher, Manning and our book. We deliver in Word format, however I think they (Manning) are moving to a specific docbook variant for newer manuscripts.I don't know how other publishers receive their manuscripts and process them.
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Thanks,Martijn. I will find out from the others and update this thread.Re: Book Reviews coming in 2008.
Java Power Tools (published by O'Reilly), was written directly in docbook. I used XMLMind and stored the source code on a shared Subversion server.Re: Book Reviews coming in 2008.
Hi... for Oracle Essentials 4th Edition and other books I have co-authored for O'Reilly and Wiley we have written the content using Word doc templates provided by the publishers. Also, the publishers now prefer any images that are captured for publishing (e.g. screenshots) to be captured in color and in high resolution (TIF format is typically how I submit them). Editing is generally through an exchange of revisions of the Word docs.