Thanks, James--we'll need you!
On Dec 29, 10:21 am, James Garlick <[email protected]> wrote:
> That's great Owen, I'd be happy to provide feedback.
>
> On 29 Dec 2008, at 15:11, Owen wrote:
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> > 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...
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> > 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.
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> >> 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!
>
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