[MacRuby-devel] MacRuby Book discount

[Matt Aimonetti]

Thanks Morgan for the feedback.

I appreciate your feedback on the CoreData chapter and I'm on the fence in
regards to what I want to cover.
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 depth.

If you can articulate a bit more what you thought was missing and how I can
help, I'd be glad to try to cover these themes.
The second part of the book is about real apps being built, I will probably
cover some more advanced use cases.

Thanks,

- Matt

On Thu, Feb 3, 2011 at 5:26 PM, Morgan Schweers <cyberfox at gmail.com> wrote:

> Greetings,
> It's looking very interesting, and I bought it...!
>
> I have to admit I'm slightly frustrated by the parts that go deep into the
> non-MacRuby aspects of Mac OS X development (IB and the entity designer) and
> then skim over what I feel are important details.  The chapter I always come
> back to is the Core Data chapter, which only really covers visually
> designing your data model, and using IB to make the UI for it.  Nothing more
> than a passing mention on managedObjectContext, and nothing at all on
> building predicates, querying Core Data using them, or...well...anything
> that isn't covered by the trivial NSArrayController.
>
> I understand the chapter's not done yet, and I very much look forward to
> seeing how it looks when it's finished!
>
> It's probably a personal frustration, because what I'm trying to do with
> MacRuby is just not covered by the book at all.  After reading through it so
> far, it's clearly a VERY good introductory guide to building OS X apps with
> MacRuby, and I'm just keenly feeling the lack of a more advanced book on the
> topic.
>
> That said, the resource of everybody here, and on Twitter, is amazing, and
> has helped immensely!  I've got a basic app up with a working source-list
> style folders, supporting drag-and-drop from browsers, custom cells and
> customizable columns in a populated table view, networking operations, HTML
> parsing, and image manipulation all in less than 500 lines of MacRuby.
> That's pretty fracking amazing! :)
>
> I've certainly got a long way to go before I've got a finished application,
> but the power of MacRuby is just astonishing.
>
> I'd love to see a list of what apps HAVE been published to the Mac App
> Store using MacRuby, if anybody is keeping such a list?  Partially just to
> bask in the coolness, but also to have an idea how the UI of those apps
> fleshed out...
>
> Thanks again,
>
> --  Morgan
>
> On Thu, Feb 3, 2011 at 10:18 AM, Nick Ludlam <nick at recoil.org> wrote:
>
>> On 3 Feb 2011, at 03:58, Eric Christopherson wrote:
>>
>> > This sale price is still good!
>>
>>
>> I've just bought my copy, too. Keep up the brilliant work, Matt!
>>
>> Between this, and the fact that people are already publishing MacRuby apps
>> to the Mac app store, it seems like this is a really good place to be.
>>
>>
>> Nick
>>
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