"Customizing XOOPS" get No.1 position with sales ranking in online book store "cbook24".
You can see this:
http://www.cbook24.com/pubinclude/salesrank/salesrank_main.asp
Online shop bk1 start to accept the reservation of "Customizing XOOPS".
http://www.bk1.co.jp/cgi-bin/srch/srch_detail.cgi/4253abff7968a01002c1?aid=&bibid=02544153&volno=...
GIJOE & matchan will release a book for XOOPS customizing on the end of April.
You can see the Japanese information from the publisher's site.
http://book.mycom.co.jp/book/4-8399-1779-5/4-8399-1779-5.shtml
This is a simple translation
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"Customizing XOOPS" -designing and hacking with ease-
Author: GIJOE & matchan
Price: 3,150yen
Size: almost B5
Pages: 520
ISBN4-8399-1779-5
Releasing date: 22 April 2005 (Perhaps...)
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Do you know matchan?
He is one of the coolest theme designer.
If you don't know matchan, go to http://www.oceannet.jp/ right now
I participated Open Source Conference 2005 in Tokyo.
I felt good with its heat.
There are a lot of user communities of Mozilla, vi, MySQL, PostgreSQL, Cobalt, SELinux, etc.... and XOOPS!
25th Mar
75 audiences including elf, nobunobu, ohwada, and kousuke participated our 1st & 2nd session.
26th Mar
60 audiences including haruki and halt participated the 3rd session Ryuji teached how to install.
After sessions over, 201 member of Open Source Communities drunk and talked each other.
I got useful informations with talking with PHP users group