This "New" book would very nice. :-)
A chapter on Flash or two would be a good selling point.
Hope to see it this year?
Regards,
Greg
On Wed, 13 Feb 2002 22:56:14 -0500
"Jason Cunliffe" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> From: "Carl Read" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > Just out of interest, has anyone here seen the "REBOL Programming"
> > book by Olivier Auverlot yet? Being in French means it's not of much
> > use to me, but if it's good, wouldn't a translation into English make
> > sense?
>
> YES
> I have it. [I ordered it online from Eyrolles own site]. It's great. Well
> written, beautifuly designed. imho Nicest REBOl book to date to read and to
> hold.
>
> I wrote to Olivier Auverlot a while ago offering to translate it into
> English. He wrote back promptly, expressing interest and then again saying
> the publishers were looking into it. But I am still waiting to hear some
> real news. Guess it's time to nudge the project along again.. In my
> experience, doing busines in France is often like this and requires
> considerable patience, perseverence and diplomacy.
>
> Also, as enthusiastic as I am, I imagine that publishing a REBOL book takes
> some guts, especially in current market.
>
> Against:
> Few have heard of it, very low media profile, not much real 'news' even on
> RT, gooogle searches mostly show old 1999, 2000 links. ie hot new technology
> is pehasp not so hot...No visible uses of rebol and free opensource tools
> have taken the limelight increasingly among 'new discoveries'
>
> For:
> REBOL has matured. Lots of cool new stuff, new knowledge, new awareness of
> rebol-like technology and applications, including .NET gorilla.
> Olivier Auverlot's book is well done and would translate very well into
> English as it is. ready to go..
>
> Further:
> Even better than straight translation I would love to invite people here to
> help add some new chapters. First, extend the knowledge on /View and /VID.
> Then nwe hcapters on Rugby, Vanilla, and Flash.
>
> Flash with REBOL could address client-side and serverside, for example with
> Oldes' %make-swf.r Flash books sell briskly {Flash with XML, PHP,MySQL
> etc}..and now that Macromedia has recently proposed to open up Flash use as
> non-browser based platform [like /View].
> Things are going to heat up. Meanwhile ever more deals:
> http://macromedia.com/macromedia/proom/pr/2002/dotnet_framework.html
> http://macromedia.com/macromedia/proom/pr/2002/motorola_flashplayer.html
> http://macromedia.com/macromedia/proom/pr/2002/nokia_mediaterminal.html
> Flash 6 looks like it will feature full interactive video conferencing and
> streaming. REBOL could play very very well with Flash.
>
> Then an overview chapter with some [ahem] useful info about IOS.
>
> And perhaps finally a roundtable discussion asking rebollers about
> 'programming with rebol' to better give the human and pragrmatic flavor of
> why is so much addictive fun. Rebol applications.. rebol in schools..
>
> suggestions..?
>
> ./Jason
>
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