Awesome, Ian! Also purchased and from a quick peruse it looks great. Congrats, Ben
On Sat, Dec 21, 2013 at 3:27 AM, Patrick Crowley <[email protected]>wrote: > 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. > -- -- 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.
