2009/1/20 Karl Lattimer <[email protected]>: > On Tue, 2009-01-20 at 09:44 +0700, Hans Baier wrote: >> > I still have a long way to learn Vala. >> > Since someone is successfully using Vala in a number >> > of projects I think they already have a good knowledge >> > of common pitfalls, best practices and the like. >> >> Writing a book is one of the most efficient ways to >> learn. Believe me, that is how I learnt linux. >> Just start, it doesnt have to be perfact in the beginning. >> It can grow over time. >> >> That is how open source happens.... > > I've actually been thinking about this. I've discovered an awful lot > since I've been writing in vala and meandered my way through a tonne of > vapi. > > If someone wants to help build a draft and table of contents with me we > could start a joint effort and try and get it published at some point.
Count on me as well to write some content. I actually think, that it would be really nice to do a good GNOME (as in the platform) Tutorial based in Vala. Teaching how to create a GNOME app from the ground up (using GtkBuilder, database access, creating .desktop files, HAL...). Note that with Vala you don't have to care about a lot of stuff, which leave us some room to teach good GNOME development practices. Also, we could take the chance to do proper ilustration, I miss that a lot in the rest of the GNOME docs. The main loop, events, signals, and DBus could be explained much better with proper ilustration. I can help a bit here, but I'm sure others in the GNOME artist community could help with this. Most GNOME docs sucks big time, the Gtk+ Tutorial for example, is more a widget-by-widget manual rather than a proper tutorial on how to create an app. Luca, count on me to write some stuff and help with the content index if someone else (you?) leads the effort (meaning, doing brown dispatching and reminding people to complete their parts of the book ;-). > > BR, > K > > _______________________________________________ > Vala-list mailing list > [email protected] > http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/vala-list > > -- Un saludo, Alberto Ruiz _______________________________________________ Vala-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/vala-list
