Honestly, I don't care what anybody thinks about book ideas or suggestions!
The whole point of the post is to get the ideas brewing, to get people seriously considering the possibilities and hopefully doing it.
Videos/screencasts/podcasts (ideally with accompanying files) are also appropriate for some topics (some more so than others).
Whatever it takes, I really just want everybody to remain proactive about promoting Ruby (and Rails).
With the upcoming Ruby 2.0 (and Rails 2.0) there should be plenty of book/video/podcast material.
The more we promote Ruby (and Rails) AND libs and modules and frameworks in Ruby, the more we promote ourselves, but more importantly, the more we make our own programming easier and more enjoyable!
Keep those ideas coming!
I also would like to see more non-trivial books.
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The only real irritation which I have run into is when I purchased the new
jQuery book, the pdf version does not allow copying and pasting. What they
did I consider a horrible thing which made me want to post my copy to as
many places on the internet I could with the password to read it (no, I
actually didn't but I did consider it...).
I had purchased the PDF for the explicit purpose of copying and pasting the
examples and playing around with jQuery during my 7 hour car trip to Ruby
East. (Yes I realized afterwards that you can download sample code but that
is beside my point, and it did not help me during the trip.)
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Moral: If you are going to write a book and publish a PDF copy, follow the
Pragmatic Programmers and Oreilly's leads, they do a fine job.
~Wayne