Can someone link the current book to netbeans.apache.org? Would've good to reference it in the documentation page and when /if the new book comes the link can be updated.
On Tue, 17 Jul 2018 09:40 Delfi Ramirez, <del...@delfiramirez.info> wrote: > +1 Huang Kai 😉 > > A wonder of myself to the community. Is there exist any intention or > interest to include JSF in the topics -- chapters, subchapters -- of the > book? > > Cheers > > Delfi Ramirez > > Segonquart Studio > > https://segonquart.net > > From: huang kai > Sent: 17 July 2018 10:30 > To: dev@netbeans.incubator.apache.org > Subject: Re: Apache NetBeans Apress Book > > Hi, all > > I live in china and have been using netbeans for swing and java ee dev > for about 10 years. I think I can help translate the book to chinese, > let's make this great platform speading more faster. > > cheers. > > Kain Huang > > > On 7/16/2018 7:53 PM, Delfi Ramirez wrote: > > Hi All: > > > > Agreed there is the need of a chapter-by-chapter community written book. > > > > Count me in. Even if there is the need for the book, once written, of a > single translator for the whole community content. > > > > Even everyone of us has English as a mother tongue or second tongue, we > may able to reach and target new markets and new loyal fellows in this > world wide world we live in > > > > Cheers > > > > > > Delfi Ramirez > > > > Segonquart Studio > > > > https://segonquart.net > > > > From: Oliver Rettig > > Sent: 16 July 2018 13:47 > > To: dev@netbeans.incubator.apache.org > > Subject: Re: Apache NetBeans Apress Book > > > > Hi all, > > > > I like the idea of a community-written book very much. This can > encourage people to join > > our great community and it show that netbeans is now a apache project > ... For me the > > community is one of the most important facts to work with netbeans and > rarely with eclipse. > > > > I have some experience with writing a book for Tomcat 5: > > > > https://www.rheinwerk-verlag.de/tomcat-5_700/ > > > > and the most important thing I have learned from this book project is: > better not to write > > such books alone. > > > > It would be a pleasure for me to write a chapter for a community-written > Netbeans book, or > > may be to translate from english to german some parts, if we want to > have a german > > version. > > > > But I have less experience in organzing such things. In scientific > communities typically you > > have an editor or a small team of editors. Their job is often really a > lot of work: to defines the > > chapters/articles, to find people who can write the articles and to push > the authors to deliver > > in the timeline. > > > > An other question is where and how to publish the book. My experience > with the Tomcat > > book was that the publisher was a really great help in formatting and > proofreading. And a > > publisher can be a very big help in invertising for apache netbeans. > > > > But it should be also possible to write the book without a publisher at > our own. In this case > > we can have an open-pdf-Version of the book. Maye we can have this too > with a publisher? > > > > best regards > > Oliver > > > > > >> I've been approached by Apress regarding interest in a book on Apache > >> NetBeans. I personally do not have enough time to devote to another > book > >> right now, so I wanted to send a note to the Apache NetBeans developer > >> group to see if there are any developers interested in authoring a book > >> (perhaps a collaborative effort). > >> > >> I know things are very busy right now, and I've already told Apress that > >> the main focus is the release of Apache NetBeans 9 right now, but maybe > a > >> book project could start this fall. There are no timelines right > >> now...just interest in a book on the new open Apache NetBeans IDE. > >> > >> If anyone is interested then reply to this message and I can get a list > of > >> names together to send along to Apress. > >> > >> Thanks > >> > >> Josh Juneau > >> juneau...@gmail.com > >> http://jj-blogger.blogspot.com > >> https://www.apress.com/index.php/author/author/view/id/1866 > > > > > > > > >
