The last couple of months I’ve been fairly busy writing my book. I had a first draft ready and that was submitted for review.
At this moment I’m working through all the remarks that the reviewers gave me. Some of them were quite good and made me realise that not everybody expects what I’m expecting from an IronRuby book. So I’ve been expanding some explanations and rewriting big chunks. I expect that we will have another review round soon. I have to process those remarks again and at that stage we’ll probably be ready to publish it in and EAP style.
Now that my first 3rd is done I’m starting at actually developing applications with IronRuby. I’m pretty curious to a couple of things from the community.
At this stage I have the following things planned for DataAccess.
I’ll include a brief tutorial on how to use IronRuby with:
I would like to know which one I should emphasize most and focus on most.
After that I’m starting on WPF and/or Winforms. At this stage I’ve only planned to talk about WPF and not about Winforms. But I’d like to confirm if that is the general idea from the people that are going to take this IronRuby ride with me.
When I start talking about ASP.NET which topics are of most interest ?
That are all the questions I have for now. When I have more questions I’ll surely post them. And I would like to thank everybody that puts his 2c in.
I’ll post more when I have more news around the book.
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March 20, 2008 at 04:55
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March 25, 2008 at 18:20
Will your book be available in MEAP?
March 25, 2008 at 18:25
Yes it will. I will publish it on this blog and on http://rubydoes.net
March 29, 2008 at 01:24
Hi,
I would suggest you to go for just 2 or 3 ORM’s
and in this order..
(1) Rails Active Record
(2) Linq2Sql
(3) SubSonic
You may explain others via your blog or some online tutorials.
How about posting this question in IronRuby forums to gain more response,. the way… the wrox did for their book called ” Professional Ruby ”
my 2 cents
Mendis Peter
March 29, 2008 at 03:53
I’d love to see a decent treatment of WPF, but WinForms is completely useless to me. Then again, I’m probably biased
I don’t know if you’ve thought about it at all, but an approach to using (something like) Rails’ rjs templates with ASP.NET would be quite interesting, especially if you think that, with Silverlight, they could potentially be executed client-side rather than baked to JS.
March 29, 2008 at 14:31
By all means emphasise WPF, but don’t ignore Winforms completely. For backwards compatibility give a couple of examples of how to develop against Winforms, in case anyone needs to know how. Just enough for people to figure out the basics and then extrapolate for themselves.
April 1, 2008 at 17:23
Hey there,
By any means is it possible to run Active Record / Data Mapper with plain Asp.Net MVC developed with IronRuby.
Using AR + DataMapper with Iron Ruby on any scenarious will be very good implementation.
Can you focus a bit on this.
April 26, 2008 at 13:00
I think that you are correct in focusing upon WPF over WinForms – I would surmise that your audience for your book would be the kind of developer that is either cutting edge and forward thinking, greenfield, or both; so it is quite likely that they will already have moved on to WPF or be planning a migration to WPF.