Re: breakdown of my book

2012-08-08 Thread Mark Wieder
> The Packt/WorldPay situation gets worse. As an update, I ordered the eBook from Amazon (and for about half the price Packt wants). It's now happily installed on my computer. Anybody who wants to try playing Packt roulette is welcome to my 25% discount promotion code since I'm not going back ther

Re: breakdown of my book

2012-07-27 Thread Bob Sneidar
Wow. Just... Wow. Bob On Jul 27, 2012, at 8:45 AM, Mark Wieder wrote: > The Packt/WorldPay situation gets worse. > I pre-ordered the print/ebook combination. > They canceled the ebook part and charged me a DIFFERENT amount for the > print version. > And now say > > We suggest that you place t

Re: breakdown of my book

2012-07-27 Thread Mark Wieder
The Packt/WorldPay situation gets worse. I pre-ordered the print/ebook combination. They canceled the ebook part and charged me a DIFFERENT amount for the print version. And now say We suggest that you place the order again in your account. Our sincere apologies for the inconvenience. -- -Mark

Re: breakdown of my book

2012-07-26 Thread Scott Morrow
Me too. I reordered. -- Scott Morrow On Jul 26, 2012, at 5:06 AM, Magicgate Software - Skip Kimpel wrote: > I got this in my emal this morning... anybody else get this regards to > the pre-order of Colin's book? > > "We are sorry to inform you that your pre-order for the eBook of > LiveCode Mo

Re: breakdown of my book

2012-07-26 Thread Marian Petrides, M.D.
Yup. I got that, too. I figured it was because I've had problems using my Visa card with WorldPay before when trying to buy Livecode itself. I accepted that it was true and went ahead and ordered the book today as soon as it became available--but I paid via PayPal this time. The payment went f

Re: breakdown of my book

2012-07-26 Thread Colin Holgate
Those paper versions can be troublesome! The ebook process went ok for me. ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/ma

Re: breakdown of my book

2012-07-26 Thread Mark Wieder
Dave- Thursday, July 26, 2012, 4:22:51 PM, you wrote: >> I got this in my emal this morning... anybody else get this regards to >> the pre-order of Colin's book? > Yes, I received exactly the same. > Given that I'd already received a Transaction Confirmation > message from WorldPay, I was quit

Re: breakdown of my book

2012-07-26 Thread Dave Wood
> I got this in my emal this morning... anybody else get this regards to > the pre-order of Colin's book? Yes, I received exactly the same. Given that I'd already received a Transaction Confirmation message from WorldPay, I was quite suspicious. I sent a please explain message to them. David

Re: breakdown of my book

2012-07-26 Thread Magicgate Software - Skip Kimpel
I got this in my emal this morning... anybody else get this regards to the pre-order of Colin's book? "We are sorry to inform you that your pre-order for the eBook of LiveCode Mobile Development Beginner's Guide” was automatically cancelled as the pre-order process did not go through correctly. Pl

Re: breakdown of my book (LiveCode Mobile Development)...

2012-07-23 Thread Mark Wieder
Ordered both the dead-tree and dead-electron versions. Colin gave a quick run-through at the conference and I'm seriously impressed. Looking forward to kicking the tires. -- Mark Wieder mwie...@ahsoftware.net ___ use-livecode mailing list use-live

Re: breakdown of my book (LiveCode Mobile Development)...

2012-07-22 Thread Petrides, M.D. Marian
I pre-ordered, too. This should make an excellent companion to last year's online course on mobile app development. Can't wait for the release date. Soon, very soon On Jul 22, 2012, at 9:21 AM, Keith Clarke wrote: > ...yep, jumped in, too - thanks Colin. > > As an old dog learning a new

Re: breakdown of my book (LiveCode Mobile Development)...

2012-07-22 Thread Magicgate Software - Skip Kimpel
Just preordered my copy as well Can't wait! On Sunday, July 22, 2012, Colin Holgate wrote: > I wouldn't go so far as to say I did "best practices"! Björnke can tell > you (he's one of the two reviewers, Andreas being the other) that I did a > few things in a way that wasn't how he would have

Re: breakdown of my book (LiveCode Mobile Development)...

2012-07-22 Thread Colin Holgate
I wouldn't go so far as to say I did "best practices"! Björnke can tell you (he's one of the two reviewers, Andreas being the other) that I did a few things in a way that wasn't how he would have done them! For much of the book, where it's talking about installing SDKs and the like, there are n

Re: breakdown of my book (LiveCode Mobile Development)...

2012-07-22 Thread Keith Clarke
...yep, jumped in, too - thanks Colin. As an old dog learning a new trick with development - and with LiveCode as my first step beyond HTML - I need some kind of best practice 'straight and narrow' path, amidst all the brilliant, creative but divergent '100 ways to roll your own' ideas that see

Re: breakdown of my book

2012-07-21 Thread Pierre Sahores
Colin, Thanks and congratulations. Pre-ordered ! (in using the incredible unergonomic Packt payment workflow - lots of unneeded clicks). Kind regards, Pierre Le 21 juil. 2012 à 20:51, Jim Lambert a écrit : > Colin, > > Thanks for the breakdown of your book. > Glad the wait is one month less

Re: breakdown of my book

2012-07-21 Thread Jim Lambert
Colin, Thanks for the breakdown of your book. Glad the wait is one month less! Jim Lambert ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lis

Re: breakdown of my book (LiveCode Mobile Development)...

2012-07-20 Thread Paul Hibbert
Colin, Thanks for the posting the outline to your book, it looks perfect for what I need to learn next, I'll definitely be buying a copy and I hope it's a big success for you. Paul ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please vis

breakdown of my book (LiveCode Mobile Development)...

2012-07-20 Thread Colin Holgate
I see that B&N have my book listed as being available on August 3rd. Amazon still shows it as September 2nd, but the publisher only just decided to bring it forward by a month, presumably Amazon's date will change. I was going to hold off describing the book until I knew exact dates, but as it's