Thank you Jean-Denis, I really appreciate it. - Matt
On Thu, Nov 3, 2011 at 6:30 AM, Jean-Denis MUYS <jdm...@kleegroup.com>wrote: > > On 3 nov. 2011, at 13:28, Matt Aimonetti <mattaimone...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > Date: Wed, 2 Nov 2011 19:46:42 -0700 > From: Matt Aimonetti <mattaimone...@gmail.com> > To: "MacRuby development discussions." > <macruby-devel@lists.macosforge.org> > Subject: [MacRuby-devel] MacRuby: The Definitive Guide > Message-ID: > <CAFGi+5eZNN=ks7q8opssne2pc0sdty+2g_pdfl5vwm9suaa...@mail.gmail.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" > > > Hey guys, if you pre ordered the hard copy of my book, it should arrive in > a few days (just got mine). > Otherwise you can buy from O'Reilly: > http://shop.oreilly.com/product/0636920000723.do or Amazon: > http://amzn.to/tVx4ng (cheaper) > Digital versions are available on the iBooks and Kindle marketplaces and > available in a all included format package on the O'Reilly website. > > I would sincerely appreciate if some of you could leave reviews on Amazon > or O'Reilly, especially if my writing managed to help you out in the past. > </infomercial> > > Thanks, > > - Matt > > > I just posted the following review to the Amazon page: > > If you are: > > - a Ruby developer who would like to learn Cocoa and program for the Mac > > or > > - a Cocoa Mac developer who would like to learn programming with Ruby > > then you could do a lot worse than reading Matt Aimonetti's book. It gets > exactly what's useful by focusing on programming for Mac, on the Mac, using > MacRuby. So it doesn't want to teach you Ruby or Cocoa. There are other > books for that. Instead it focuses on the specific stuff: > > - What's different when programming in Ruby from programming in > Objective-C > - How to use Mac tools, e.g. Xcode, to develop in Ruby for the Mac > - How the MacRuby runtime is using and integrates with the Objective-C > runtime > - How to call Ruby code from Objective-C and back > - How to benefit from the interpreted nature of Ruby within a Cocoa app > > and so on. > > A very interesting look into what the future of Mac programming (and > hopefully iOS). It helped me get up to speed very quickly with MacRuby (now > included with OS X Lion) and saved me a *lot* of time, probably weeks. I am > an inexperienced Ruby programmer, but a seasoned Cocoa programmer. I think > that it would be equally useful to an experienced Ruby programmer getting > started with Mac development. > > Highly recommended > > > _______________________________________________ > MacRuby-devel mailing list > MacRuby-devel@lists.macosforge.org > http://lists.macosforge.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/macruby-devel > >
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