On Fri, Feb 25, 2011 at 12:36 PM, Stéphane Ducasse < [email protected]> wrote:
> > The latest PDF download is dated 2009-10-28. I would be very happy to > > purchase a book that was updated. > > We did not change that much since them. > I'm working on the next book > - exception > - setting > - metacello > - ... > - and we need more: openDBX :) > > > Either through and autobuild or one > > of the writers could once a month publish a manual build. > > Normally if you checkout the git version it should work out of the box. > Hey, why not put this on the Hudson server ? The last PBE version in one click :) Laurent > > > > I spent in total a day trying top get a Laytex environ working on my > Mac. > > really? > Just download the tex installer and after you latex pbe.tex and it works. > You should ask us because most of us works with latex on mac or linux. > > > I couldn't get the book to build and it left me tons of stuff installed > > without a clear way to remove. > > I do understand you are trying to balance having the book open and > > still make some cash. > > Not even :) > We earn so little. We are just focused on the next book. > > > Maybe you should jside more with making some > > cash. The barrier to building the boook on your own is high. Just go > > ahead and strike a deal with one of the book vendors that will manage > > this for you. Pragmatic Programmers has a great beta books system. > > > I prefer to die than to have to deal with these people. The last experience > was so painful. I better prefer to stay poor :) > > > Having more recent copies in more hands my push the book dev faster too. > > The first book is an intro to smalltalk so it does not change a lot in > latest pharo1.3. > What we could do is to include the pdf (if this is not ready) in the git > repo and linked it from > the web site. > > Stef > > > thanks, Jon > > > > > > On Thu, Feb 24, 2011 at 4:40 AM, Norbert Hartl <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> > >> On 23.02.2011, at 15:22, Rob Vens wrote: > >> > >>> I am attempting to do the Pharo by Example book, but a package browser > (which is used in the examples) is not in the 1.1.1 or 1.2 image. > >>> Should I still use categories? If I create a package in Monticello > browser I am not able to add classes or anything (not as far as I could > see). > >>> Just starting out using Pharo, so apologies if these questions are > already answered elsewhere. > >> > >> Like Miguel said you should use the image from the website. As you could > see on the website a second edition of the book is in the make. I would > advize you to start with the current book. It gets you going in using > smalltalk and pharo. After that the second edition will be available. Quite > some things will have changed then but nothing fundamental regarding > smalltalk. It could be nice for you to follow the evolution if you start > from the first image and you get the feel how it gets better. You will be > one of the guys that have a fresh look on all of this. That is one thing we > all are missing because we are working quite some time with it and we are > blind to certain things. So don't hesitat to ask questions or the complain > about things you think are stupid :) > >> > >> Norbert > >> > > > > >
