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Come introduce yourself at the new users page. If you have any questions, you can ask there or contact me personally. Mattb112885 (talk to me) 00:46, 23 August 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Technical Book Development/Learning Resources

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[edit] Technical Book Development

Hi Chris - this is re the online resources section of the book. I pruned some of these out then had to go do something else before I got a chance to give my rationale.

The problem with this sort of page is that the links need maintaining. The ones to personal websites are particularly an issue. A few days ago I look maybe a third to a half of this links off a similar page as they mostly gave 404s or similar. Such areas a blogs will be particularly challenging to ensure they are up to date. Maybe look at dmoz/google or whatever type pointers? Equally I have removed the "commercial links" one as that really is an open invite for spammers to wander along a place links.

I hope at least some of this does make sense to you. The book is good - that page worries me looking longer term? Cheers --Herby ^{talk thyme} 11:48, 13 March 2008 (UTC)

Hi Herb

I'm using this as a resource for a workshop I'm running this weekend. The idea of the workshop has broadened to explore the ways in which software people update their skills so this resource list is just a check list (with examples for the field I'm currently learning - the semantic web). I would be grateful if you would let it run till my workshop is over, then we can see if any useful material comes out to work into a more generally useful book. I'm sorry if you think perhaps this is not a legitimate use of wikibooks - I deid ask on the technical discussion board and got no answer so I went ahead.

ChrisWallace (talk) 13:36, 13 March 2008 (UTC)

Fair enough - I certainly won't edit it for now. However bear in mind that Wikibooks is intended to provide "stand alone" content for readers as so external links to any real content are not good practice. Equally specific links pages really are very inappropriate usually - there are far easier ways for people to find things via search engines & they are very hard to maintain & ensure they are up to date. Thanks --Herby ^{talk thyme} 10:23, 14 March 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Technical Book Development/Interview Protocol/Resource List

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