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 <cyber...@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 <n...@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 >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> MacRuby-devel mailing list >> MacRuby-devel@lists.macosforge.org >> http://lists.macosforge.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/macruby-devel >> > > > _______________________________________________ > MacRuby-devel mailing list > MacRuby-devel@lists.macosforge.org > http://lists.macosforge.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/macruby-devel > >
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