Re: Docs
Re: Docs
- Subject: Re: Docs
- From: Chuck Toporek <email@hidden>
- Date: Fri, 24 Aug 2001 08:54:49 -0400
- Organization: O'Reilly & Associates, Inc.
"Michael A. Crawford" wrote:
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On 8/23/01 6:53, "Chuck Toporek" <email@hidden> wrote:
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> Ondra Cada wrote:
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>> James,
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>>>>>>>> James Bredijk (JB) wrote at Thu, 23 Aug 2001 08:19:29 -0400:
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>> JB> Speaking of the "Docs" - or lack there of - are there any books
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>> JB> available (with a TOC, naturally) that will break down the API into
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>> JB> manageable sections??
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>> If you can manage waiting, the Garfinkel/Mahoney's "Cocoa Programming --
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>> Step One" or whatever the reincarnation of the original "NeXTSTEP Programming
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>> -- Step One" should be just great. At least, the original was!
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>> Simson Garfinkel should be on the list, he might guess why the book will be
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>> available...
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> Hi there,
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> I'm the Mac editor here at O'Reilly. I'm not Simson's editor, but I know
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> he and Michael are working on updating their NeXTSTEP book. I'll leave
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> it to Simson and Michael to comment more on their book.
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> On another note, there does seem to be a serious amount of information
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> pain going on here, and I'll agree that better documentation (be it free
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> online docs or printed material) is needed. The big thing I'm seeing
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> right now (at least in this thread) is that everyone seems to be digging
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> for an API reference. Correct? If that's the case, is there anyone here
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> on this list (Ondra?) who might be interested in writing a "Cocoa
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> Foundation Classes" book? This can probably be built up from existing
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> Apple documentation and expanded into something that's much more useful
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> Any takers?
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> Meantime, if there are other books you think we should be publishing,
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> let me know.
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> Chuck
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On the question of other books you should be publishing, how about a MacOS X
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Device Driver book, complete with large chapters on USB and Firewire.
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Another book on a related topic would be MacOS X KEXT and NKE programming.
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-Michael
Yes, that's on my to-do list.
Chuck
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