People been asking about it, so here are my thoughts on the book, from someone new to gears with no affiliation with authors/publishers/etc.
Overall, well worth buying, though rough around the edges. If you are developing with Gears seriously, it's totally worth having. Good job on the writing and clarity. Needed to be better edited, perhaps seems a bit rushed. I bet the second edition will be excellent. Pros: - I really like the way the content is organized. It's nice to have the content structured around two sequential projects followed by components with a zeroing in kind of style. - Writing is good, tone is easy to read and helpful - Great coverage of a real life biggish app ( what what ). This is nice because it helps you see *how* you would use the components. - I like the pen annotations on code style. For some reason this only starts about a third of the way in though, would be good at the beginning too. - Lots of idiomatic examples. These alone make the book worthwhile because reading the separate online docs on components don't show you examples of tying them together. Cons: - Too many typos in the code examples. These should have been rigorously edited. - I wish it were longer. I think the chapters on individual components are decent, but not in depth enough. This is especially true for some of the contributed chapters which are sketchy compared to the rest of the book and not up to the same standard. ( deployment, etc ) I think again the main authors should have edited those and required a higher standard of explanation and clarity. - Needs more on the new components, obviously this is caused by events and not really the authors faults. Warnings: - You will need a decent understanding of python, javascript, RDBMs, and CSS to get a lot out of it. If you don't know python, some typos could be really annoying. Further Wish List: - expanded best practices with turbogears stuff. - even more real world examples. - a lot more deployment examples So yeah, go buy it! =) Iain --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TurboGears" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/turbogears?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
