[Lift] Re: Best way to learn Lift

2008-11-25 Thread Matt Harrington
You don't need to read the entire stairway book to start being productive with Lift. Try chapters 1-17, 24, and 30. After that, I'd ... - Read http://liftweb.net/index.php/Maven_Mini_Guide - install Maven from http://maven.apache.org - Set up NetBeans with Maven and the Scala plugin. -

[Lift] Re: Best way to learn Lift

2008-11-25 Thread David Pollak
On Tue, Nov 25, 2008 at 5:44 PM, Erick Fleming <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote: > I second Kris's suggestion. I'm new to Lift and Scala, but know Java. If > first started converting a Wicket application to Scala. It's pretty easy to > write a Java applications using Scala, but you really don't learn a

[Lift] Re: Best way to learn Lift

2008-11-25 Thread Erick Fleming
I second Kris's suggestion. I'm new to Lift and Scala, but know Java. If first started converting a Wicket application to Scala. It's pretty easy to write a Java applications using Scala, but you really don't learn anything about Scala real capabilities. So, after deciding to write my applicati

[Lift] Re: Best way to learn Lift

2008-11-25 Thread Mike Pence
Awesome! I will check the book out and start putting together a Lift project soon! --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Lift" group. To post to this group, send email to liftweb@googlegroups.com To unsubs

[Lift] Re: Best way to learn Lift

2008-11-25 Thread Derek Chen-Becker
There are also at least two Lift books in the works. You can see the book that Tyler and I are working on here: http://github.com/tjweir/liftbook/tree/master If you want to view the actual book you'll need LyX: http://www.lyx.org/ Derek On Tue, Nov 25, 2008 at 3:10 PM, Kris Nuttycombe <[EMAIL P

[Lift] Re: Best way to learn Lift

2008-11-25 Thread Kris Nuttycombe
I've actually found that building a Lift project is a fairly effective means of learning Scala, because Lift tends to use a lot of idiomatic Scala that you don't necessarily see in context when reading the Artima book. It can be a lot to take on at once, but I've found that being exposed to and for