Chad L. wrote:
>Anyone know of any TurboGears books in the works? I would think
>O'Reilly would be all over this...?
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T'would be nice. But don't hold your breath. One of the problems with
using the best tools instead of the most popular ones is that there
never seem to be many book on the best tools. I could run down to
Barnes and Noble and probably pick up 4 or 5 books off the shelf with
titles like "Web Programming With PHP 5 and MySQL 4". I'd probably
find two books on general Python programming, both a few years old, and
one on general PostgreSQL usage, O'reiley included.
I suspect we're on our own until TG has achieved "Total World
Domination", at which point we will probably have moved on to something
better.
It's a little more complicated than that. Tools achieve popularity in some part *because* they have books, sites, etc. available. And books take a non-trivial amount of time to write (ask the wxWidgets folks).
The best situation would be to have one more-or-less definitive book in progress now, so that it's ready soon after TG 1.0. Soon after, not at the same time, because that lets you spread out the publicity over a longer period of time. Follow that with a simpler, "for dummies" type book a few months afterwards. By that time, people will be doing interesting and weird things with TG that weren't foreseen by the developers, and you can bring out a third "TG Hacks"-type book.
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Tim Lesher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
