From: John Joyce <dangerwillrobinsondanger@...>
Date: 2007-10-05T13:12:23+09:00
Subject: Re: cygwin's Ruby


On Oct 4, 2007, at 9:21 PM, John Lam (DLR) wrote:

>> From: John Joyce [mailto:dangerwillrobinsondanger@gmail.com]
>>
>> Does that mean there will be any books / tutorials on using IronRuby
>> + Silverlight coming soon? (hint hint nudge nudge)
>
> While I would love to write a book on IronRuby, I feel that it's a  
> bit premature to do so right now. What would I write that would add  
> anything of value on the languages side over the many excellent  
> Ruby books on the market today? On the .NET integration side of the  
> house, I think that there may be something to say here around  
> metaprogramming / DSL approaches to writing .NET apps, but it's way  
> too soon to write a book like that without concrete experience.
>
> Someday if I feel that I can't not write a book like that I'll fire  
> up Word and start typing. But I have to ship a compiler first ... :)
>
> -John
>
>
You might consider brief stuff though. There is a growing trend from  
publishers to publish "short cut" PDF ebooks for very low prices that  
are not full-length books but more like pamphlets...
There have already been a few Rails related ones...