Congrats, Ian. This looks awesome. Purchased!
Cheers, Patrick On Dec 21, 2013, at 1:38 am, Ian Young <[email protected]> wrote: > Hey all, > > This isn't specifically Ruby-related, but I figured a cross-post was probably > in good taste given how much Rails <3 CoffeeScript. I recently had my first > ever technical book published. Exciting! It's called CoffeeScript Application > Development, and I bet you can guess what it's about! > > I worked hard to accomplish two things with the book: 1) an introduction to > all the important features of CoffeeScript, and 2) examples of how to use > them most effectively in a full application. In my opinion #2 is the standout > feature - there are plenty of introductions out there to CoffeeScript syntax, > but I want to teach people how to make the most of it when confronted with > the real-life problems that you will encounter in your real-life work. > > If this sounds interesting to you, or if you can think of someone else in > your life who you want to get hooked on CoffeeScript, I'd encourage you to > check it out! It's mostly focused on front-end CS, but has a couple chapters > on Node as well. It's aimed towards developers with some JS but little CS > experience, but should have some good stuff for the more advanced folks too > (source maps! async! asset pipelines in Rails, Brunch, and Node!). > > Right now, there are a couple good ways to get your hands on a copy for cheap: > > • The ebook is $5 if you buy it from the publisher between now and Jan > 3rd > • You can get 15% off either the ebook or the print edition at any time > from the publisher with these discount codes: 2QfknZ (book) and cVqzM4 (ebook) > • Or follow me on Twitter, where at some point (probably mid-January) > I'll do a promotion to give away a few copies. > • Or just buy it on Amazon, at whatever price Amazon feels like > charging today > > Enjoy the holidays, enjoy the book, and enjoy the last days of 2013, which > are going to be beautiful if today was any indication! > > Ian > > -- > -- > SD Ruby mailing list > [email protected] > http://groups.google.com/group/sdruby > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "SD > Ruby" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. -- -- SD Ruby mailing list [email protected] http://groups.google.com/group/sdruby --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "SD Ruby" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
