On Dec 8, 2005, at 6:45 AM, Shannon Fang wrote: > Hi Andy and Dave, > > I recently purchased the PickAxe 2 PDF edition. I intended to use > it to replace the bundled help... > > Although the book is very well written, even better than the first > edition, I still feel regreted that it is not in CHM... I use this > book very frequently when working, so I have a suggestion for you > guys that is to provide CHM edition for the next edition. I think > PDF is not necessary, at least for me, because it is not easy to > use as a reference, and it also does not give you the feeling of a > real book. > > PickAxe is a very good learning book, but it is much better used as > a reference book. I love this book and it introduced the fantastic > ruby world to me. You mailed this to a Ruby mailing list, but I think you wanted: orders / pragmaticprogrammer.com James Edward Gray II