> Now go build something. Want to do something with chat? Sure, go read up on IRC and XMPP and Signal and Wire and all that. Totally. I guess I should have men

> Now go build something. Want to do something with chat? Sure, go read up on IRC and XMPP and Signal and Wire and all that. Totally. I guess I should have mentioned that for me, at least, the books will be paired with hands-on hacking. > The idea of reading 110+ books first in the hope you'll then start your epic hack sounds to me like epic procrastination. Not planning to read book after book by the fire while the computer collects dust. :) For instance, I'm reading SQL books now and have done experiments that I then wrote about. Like transaction isolation levels, deferrable constraints, types/domains. Lots of fun stuff to build. I find that the books help to give me a broader idea of the possibilities, that's all.