+1 El vie, 25-02-2011 a las 15:25 +0100, laurent laffont escribió: > > 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 > >> > > > > > >
-- Miguel Cobá http://twitter.com/MiguelCobaMtz http://miguel.leugim.com.mx
