Re: [MacRuby-devel] MacRuby Book expectations

2011-02-06 Thread Matt Aimonetti
Thank you very much Jean-Denis, you've provided me with very valuable information. My publisher and I have been trying to define the audience for the book and what content belongs to the book. We've been lacking feedback from readers like you, people experienced with Cocoa but looking to use MacRu

Re: [MacRuby-devel] MacRuby Book expectations

2011-02-04 Thread Caio Chassot
On 2011-02-04, at 07:30 , Jean-Denis Muys wrote: > > I am at the other end of the spectrum: I am an experienced Cocoa/Objective-C > programmer and a Ruby newbie. And I'm back at the ruby expert, cocoa newbie, yet… > I expect the book to address two facets of software development with MacRuby:

Re: [MacRuby-devel] MacRuby Book expectations

2011-02-04 Thread Martin Hawkins
Jean_Denis has obviously put a lot of thought into his post and I, for one, fully endorse eveything he says! I don't expect the Macruby book to tell me how to program in either Ruby or Objective-C, but I do expect it to tell me how about the specific issues that are involved with using Macruby. I'

[MacRuby-devel] MacRuby Book expectations

2011-02-04 Thread Jean-Denis Muys
On 4 févr. 2011, at 05:53, "Perry E. Metzger" wrote: > > On Thu, 3 Feb 2011 17:35:08 -0800 Matt Aimonetti > wrote: >> I don't really aim for this book to be a Cocoa book, but a MacRuby >> book which is really hard since it's like writing a book about >> Objective-C without covering Cocoa in dep