Jeff, Definitely let the list know when you have something to work with. Sounds like a worthwhile effort.
Regards ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jeffery Painter" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Turbine Users List" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, September 15, 2003 1:11 PM Subject: RE: turbine books > > I actually took much from the wiki :) it had a great set of features > outlined that I thought lent towards what is necessary for beginning a > turbine app versus what topics seemed more advanced. > > I am working in latex (with lyx as my editor) > > I would be happy to maybe setup the chapters into a cvs repository or > something so people could contrib as they like on chapters they feel > comfortable working on. > > I think it would be a great addition to the turbine community as we could > pursue a publisher who would be happy with a web version for free and a > print version where proceeds could be sent back to the turbine developers > or something like that. > > Turbine seems to be a very powerful set of tools, but due to a lack of > good "printed" documentation, people tend to overlook it's potential and > claim it is too difficult to use. > > I was hoping to put together a nice and simple application that would go > through the motions of what is needed/what you get from turbine and how it > can help you build your apps rather than just listing them point by point > and throwing an API in there. > > I was looking at a simple portal app with some messaging capabilities > (project manager type thing) as the sample app to build. not as fancy as > scarab :) but something someone could wrap their head around with a book. > > let me know if anyone is interested and we could get this started as a > group project rather than one man's burden. > > thanks, > Jeff Painter > > > > On Mon, 15 Sep 2003, Gary Baker wrote: > > > Jeff, > > > > I'd be into helping you with that. Do you have a list of chapters or > > something similar as a starting point? > > > > -Gary > > > > > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Jeffery Painter [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Sent: Monday, September 15, 2003 10:03 AM > > To: Kyle Wilson > > Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Subject: Re: turbine books > > > > > > > > I have started working on one, but due to my schedule haven't gotten > > very > > far. > > > > There was a mention last week on the list server about a book for Java > > Application > > Frameworks from a person at Cambridge, but it did not look turbine > > specific to me. > > > > There is an O'Reilly book on Struts which just barely mentions turbine. > > > > I have not really seen much else out there. I am working on more of a > > hands on approach to building an app rather than a book detailed towards > > > > what turbine is. > > > > If you would be interested in some collaboration that would be cool > > > > let me know > > > > Thanks, > > Jeff Painter > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > On Mon, 15 Sep 2003, Kyle Wilson wrote: > > > > > Does anyone know of any Turbine books available? I searched around, > > > but > > > didn't find much of anything. Are there any Turbine books coming to > > > market soon? > > > > > > > > > > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
