+1 - great work Bob. I’ve seen you build the resource up over a good number of months.
Chris Mills Senior tech writer || Mozilla developer.mozilla.org || MDN cmi...@mozilla.com || @chrisdavidmills On 18 Mar 2014, at 15:31, Andrew Halberstadt <ahalberst...@mozilla.com> wrote: > Wow, that's awesome, congrats! > > On 17/03/14 06:48 PM, Bob Thulfram wrote: >> I wanted to post this here because I thanked B2G (and some of you >> here) specifically for your help with my blog posts (which is what the >> book started out as). Essentially I took the posts I wrote on my blog >> (http://firefoxosgaming.blogspot.com/) and massaged them into a book. >> >> The book is on Amazon now at http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00IZUYIGO. >> >> Here are the chapters: >> >> Introduction to Firefox OS Game Programming >> Pushing your Game to a Device >> Measuring Screen Size from the Inside >> Bouncing a Ball in CSS >> Drawing with Canvas - Part 1 >> Drawing with Canvas - Part 2 >> Drawing with Canvas - Part 3 >> Bouncing SVG - Part 1 >> Bouncing SVG - Part 2 >> Bouncing SVG - Part 3 >> Touch and more SVG >> Screen Orientation >> CSS Shell >> CSS Collisions >> Canvas Collisions in Color >> SVG Collisions >> CSS, Canvas, SVG Compared >> HTML5 Audio - Part 1 >> HTML5 Audio - Part 2 >> HTML5 Audio - Part 3 >> HTML5 Audio - Part 4 >> HTML5 Audio - Part 5 >> Vibration >> Device Orientation >> Local Storage >> Asynchronous Storage >> IndexedDB Storage >> Simple Complete Game - PaddleFox! >> Submitting a Game to the Marketplace >> Resources for Going Further >> >> The book came out to 50,000 words and Amazon says it is 400 pages, but >> some of the pages are screen shots. I'm hoping this book can help >> people see how easy it is to create games for Firefox OS! The book >> contains 26 stand-alone code examples that were tested and run on ZTE >> Open and Geeksphone Peak. >> >> I'm a complete novice at publishing eBooks and if anyone has any >> advice on how to promote this or let the world know, I'd be grateful. >> My main purpose is to promote Firefox OS game programming and I think >> FxOS will make a better world. But I'm a retired engineer and always >> avoided marketing in the past, so I don't know anything about >> marketing and promotion. >> >> Now that I'm recovering, it's back to my blog with new ideas for >> making some games on FxOS with CSS sprites. I'm also considering >> putting the book up on Leanpub and Nook. I'm also considering >> gathering up my 30+ Firefox OS Game reviews and putting them up on >> Amazon also, so people can know more about cool games on FxOS! >> >> If anyone has any advice, reply here, or my email (thulf...@gmail.com) >> or directly on Twitter (@thulfram). >> >> Again, thanks for all your help! >> > > _______________________________________________ > dev-b2g mailing list > dev-b2g@lists.mozilla.org > https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-b2g _______________________________________________ dev-b2g mailing list dev-b2g@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-b2g
