Article:		Ten Things I Dig About Panther
Subject:		yep
Date:		2003-10-13 11:43:20
From:		anonymous2
I agree, I would like a more seamless integration of X11 into the desktop environment. Also...O'Reilly, why in the world would you pick a German Shepard for the cover of this book? It's pretty clear that the Panther is already an animal. Why not um...use a Panther for the cover? I bet someone in your editorial department spent hours deciding on the German Shepard.

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• yep
  2003-10-14 12:15:48  James Duncan Davidson | [Reply | View]
  
  
  Each O'Reilly series has a theme. For example, the Java books are cats, the Oracle books are bugs, and the Mac books are dogs--for loyalty, not for "running like a dog". The animal theme for Mac was set long before Jaguar made it clear that Apple was moving to the cat codenames.
  
  Ah well, I'd love to have a running panther on the cover of my next book. But, that's not my choice. :)
• nope
  2003-10-16 12:35:13  anonymous2 [Reply | View]
  
  
  While this *might* be true for the core books (Learning X, Programming X), it in no way is true in general - Java Cookbook has a chicken on the cover for instance.
• nope
  2003-10-20 21:07:13  James Duncan Davidson | [Reply | View]
  
  
  Actually, the Cookbook series as a whole is considered to be different than the Java or Perl series. The rules aren't concrete. (grin)

• yep
  2003-10-13 12:26:44  anonymous2 [Reply | View]
  
  
  Because the "Advanced Perl Programming" book is already deemed the Panther....
  
  http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/advperl/