That's great Owen, I'd be happy to provide feedback. On 29 Dec 2008, at 15:11, Owen wrote:
> > Tom, James & All Dedicated Hoboists, > > I received the green light from Ramon Barquin to pursue writing this > book ASAP. We are lucky to have Jeffrey Lapides leading this effort. > Jeff has created a draft outline of goals and chapters that we aare > reviewing today. > > The "draft" intended audiences: > > * The RoR and Hobo novice, especially someone who wants to avoid > RoR coding > * Technology leaders, architects, and evangelists > * A Technically savvy manager/designer who wants to develop but > not code > * Advanced RoR developer who wants to go in a different direction > > Our goal is to have the first 100 pages by February 1... > > Stay tuned for more details. To make this successful we will need > input and editorial feedback from all. How we will do this is yet > TBD. > > Looking forward to an exciting 2009! > > Owen > > On Dec 29, 5:31 am, Tom Locke <[email protected]> wrote: >>> While it would be nice to be able to use Hobo without Rails >>> experience, it really doesn't seem practical - Hobo *is* Rails, in >>> many parts. Trying to educate brand-new users about *everything* >>> seems doomed to repeat much of the Rails docs. >> >> Yes you would have to repeat a lot, but I'm not sure the word >> "doomed" >> is warranted : ) In the world of docs, DRY is not a virtue. >> >> Although there's a lot in Rails that Hobo people need a thorough >> grasp >> of, there's also lot that they don't need to know tons about. E.g. >> routing. Or rather, it's not that you don't need to know about >> routing, but it becomes an advanced topic rather than an essential >> one. The order of learning changes. >> >> The only way to give a seamless learning experience is for a book/ >> course/other on Rails and Hobo together. It is a lot of work though. >> >> I'm hoping someone else will write that book! >> >> Tom > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Hobo Users" 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/hobousers?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
