Cappuccino Book Project

[John C. Fox]

Hello Fellow Cappuccino Developers:

As some of you know, I've recently signed a contract to write a book on Cappuccino for the Pragmatic Bookshelf. It took several months of back and forth with the proposal, which comprised a detailed outline and sample chapter. I'm incredibly pleased to be writing this book because I really believe in Cappuccino, and Pragmatic is a fantastic publisher. The book is primarily targeted at "classical" Javascript developers, meaning those who are used to working at the DOM/CSS level, and who may not necessarily have much desktop app (let alone Cocoa) experience. 

The book will be available both in electronic and printed format, will have lots of sample code, and, if all goes well, will be available in beta form in another 4 months. I will be looking to the community for support. At this time, I'd love to hear (off-list) from any who are inclined to share their experiences about the issues with which you've struggled in getting comfortable with Cappuccino. Feel free to drop me a line, and if you don't mind, tell me a little about what technologies you've been using.

As things progress, I'll post to the list and to Twitter.

Best regards, 

John

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John C. Fox 

Founder 

GroupSmarts, LLC 

MemoryMiner - "Record memories...tell stories"

http://www.memoryminer.com

[Brad Hutchins]

I guess that makes sense... If you are already an Objective-C / Cocoa developer more of the code would inherently look more familiar to them then to a JS developer.

Well I am in for the Beta.  I have been requesting for this book on the Pragmatic Forum "I would like a book about" for like 18 months.  Cool thing is my posting had the most number of view out of all other posting (about 3500).  So people know about the Language and the Framework, they just want... The Book

Brad

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[David Cann]

Congratulations, John! It sounds like it'll be a great book.

[John C. Fox]

Hi David:

Thanks back to you: I hope the book is worthy of the community it proposes to serve.

Best, 

John

On Sep 7, 2010, at 1:46 PM, David Cann wrote:

Congratulations, John!  It sounds like it'll be a great book.

[Brad Hutchins]

Oh yeah, what is the Title and sub-title of the book?

And don't forget to cover Atlas  ;)

B

[John MemoryMiner]

Hey Brad:

I haven't fixed the title yet but I was thinking:

Sophisticated Web Applications with Cappuccino: Get Rich or Die Tryin' 

:P

John

[Brad Hutchins]

I love it

Sent from my iPhone

[Johannes Fahrenkrug]

Congratulations, John! That is fantastic!
My proposal for a title: "Cappuccino: better to digest than Java and
far less 1996" ;-)

On Sep 8, 5:12 am, John MemoryMiner <j...@memoryminer.com> wrote:
> Hey Brad:
>
> I haven't fixed the title yet but I was thinking:
>
> Sophisticated Web Applications with Cappuccino: Get Rich or Die Tryin'
>
> :P
>
> John
>

> On Sep 7, 2010, at 7:30 PM, Brad Hutchins <oshyb...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>
>
> > Oh yeah, what is the Title and sub-title of the book?
>
> > And don't forget to cover Atlas  ;)
>
> > B
>

> > On Tue, Sep 7, 2010 at 2:46 PM, John C. Fox <j...@memoryminer.com> wrote:
> > Hi David:
>
> > Thanks back to you: I hope the book is worthy of the community it proposes to serve.
>
> > Best,
>
> > John
>
> > On Sep 7, 2010, at 1:46 PM, David Cann wrote:
>
> >> Congratulations, John!  It sounds like it'll be a great book.
>
> > ---
> > John C. Fox
> > Founder
> > GroupSmarts, LLC
> > MemoryMiner - "Record memories...tell stories"
> >http://www.memoryminer.com
>
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[Brad Hutchins]

Hey thats not bad either...

[Chris Banford [Webascent]]

How about:
*Cappuccino: A fine, smooth blend of Java(script) for the Web and your Desktop*

Hoping that something comes of the Atlas/NativeHost projs too! (Mac/Win/Lin)

Good luck with the book!
-Chris

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[Brad Hutchins]

 seen here:  John will you be covering JS debugging with the method Fransisco came up with 18 Mos ago?

http://www.alertdebugging.com/2009/04/29/building-a-better-javascript-profiler-with-webkit/


Video of the above can be seen here:

http://jsconf.us/2009/francisco_video.html

Starts at 22:00. Ends at 30:20
Main point starts at 25:50
I believe this is not limited to just Objective-J, but JS in general.

Brad

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