Re: Groovy in Action has been slashdotted

On 3/1/07, Dierk Koenig <dierk.koenig@...> wrote:
> Hi Simon,
>
> thanks a lot for the excellent review!

And thank you for such an excellent book.

> Yes, I liked it very much. It's very positive but by no means
> "over the top". Almost every review (especially the ones at
> slashdot) is done by someone who is interested in the topic and
> therefore likes to read books about it. How could that be any
> different?

Agreed.

> The review received lots of comments, which is a good sign.
> That some of the comments are plain crazy is just ... well,
> slashdot 

True, but I'm pretty much used to the trolls by now. They crawl out of
the woodwork for every review that I have on Slashdot.

> I couldn't find more info about the rating. Does '9' mean
> '9 of 10' where 10 would be best?

Yes. That's it. The review guidelines encourage the reviewers to not
hand out too many tens. So, 9 is the new 10 if you know what I mean.

> keep groovin'

Working on it. 

Simon

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