I had a look at Apress and there are quite a few books on netbeans (one already that uses Netbeans 9 for its demos!). They all cost money (unsurprisingly), I was wondering how that would fit in to a community written book?
I don't have any expertise to add myself (I'm kind of waiting till things stabilise to a standard development life cycle before investing some time in to adding enhancements) but was interested in how it would work. Is it better to actually just write a free book? Or do Apress bring a lot to the venture? On Wed, 18 Jul 2018 17:22 Mario Schroeder, <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Miloš, > > that what you describe is what I also thought about. I got an book about NB > too, but the samples there don't use the annotations and some classes are > even deprecated. So an update to the latest version of the platform would > be great. I could be your copilot if you need help in reviews and > correction. > > Regards, > Mario > > Miloš Šilhánek <[email protected]> schrieb am Mi., 18. Juli 2018, > 17:54: > > > Hi, > > I was been interested some years ago in NetBeans Platform. I organized > > translation from English to Czech and cowrote a NetBeans Platform > > Cookbook > > which were not realized - it is on NB wiki pages. > > > > So I leaved it - because of time and the need of application based on NB > > Platform disappears in my work. > > Now is all by browser. :-(. But NBP is suitable for many application as > > the > > showcase shows. > > > > > > > > > > The book was made for NB 6.9.1 and tested for 7.1. Many features were > > moved > > to annotations in this time. We both had no time to upgrade it. > > > > > > > > > > My English is poor so I could upgrade these examples or test new > examples. > > > > Milos > > > > > > > > > > > > ---------- Původní e-mail ---------- > > Od: Delfi Ramirez <[email protected]> > > Komu: [email protected] < > [email protected] > > > > > Datum: 16. 7. 2018 13:56:18 > > Předmět: RE: Apache NetBeans Apress Book > > "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: [email protected] > > 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 > > > [email protected] > > > http://jj-blogger.blogspot.com > > > https://www.apress.com/index.php/author/author/view/id/1866 > > > > > > > > " >
