RE: Request for Authors: Focused Cocoa Topic Books
RE: Request for Authors: Focused Cocoa Topic Books
- Subject: RE: Request for Authors: Focused Cocoa Topic Books
- From: "Toporek, Chuck" <email@hidden>
- Date: Mon, 23 Apr 2007 09:06:19 -0400
- Thread-topic: Request for Authors: Focused Cocoa Topic Books
Greetings list,
I agree that there needs to be some solid, grounded books for Mac
developers. I was the editor in charge of building up a list of Mac
developer titles at O'Reilly until the company withdrew its support for
Mac books. I won't go into the painful details of that, but I'm now with
Addison-Wesley (home of Aaron Hillegass' "Cocoa Programming" book, and
Amit Singh's "Mac OS X Internals"), and have their support to build up a
list of books for Mac developers and system administrators. I've only
been at AW for about three weeks, and am building up a list of potential
books I'd like to see published in this space.
If you're interested in writing, please feel free to contact me at the
email/phone below (I'm also on iChat/AIM as monkeyboychuck). There's a
lot of ground to cover (Bindings, Core Data, Core Image/Video,
Leopard-specific stuff, etc.), and I'm hopeful that Addison-Wesley will
be the publisher Mac developers with turn to for the information they
need.
Also, I will be at WWDC in June, so let me know if you'd like to meet up
then to talk in person.
Chuck
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Chuck Toporek
Senior Acquisitions Editor
Addison-Wesley/Pearson Education
75 Arlington St., MS: 3E007
Boston, MA 02116
Phone: 617-848-6549
Email: email@hidden
-----Original Message-----
From: cocoa-dev-bounces+chuck.toporek=email@hidden
[mailto:cocoa-dev-bounces+chuck.toporek=email@hidden] On
Behalf Of Todd Heberlein
Sent: Sunday, April 22, 2007 11:55 PM
To: Cocoa Development
Subject: Request for Authors: Focused Cocoa Topic Books
I am an occasional Cocoa/OpenStep/NextSTEP developer, and it seems to me
that the pace of technology change in Apple's tool chest has accelerated
over the last several years. For example, I have been playing with the
relatively recently added NSController objects, and they are immensely
rich, complex, fun, and useful. The online documentation such as "Cocoa
Bindings Programming Topics" seem to only scratch the surface. For
example, I am just barely groking how to think about designing my
software to effectively take advantage of controllers/bindings. It
seems like a paradigm-shifting programming technology, and paradigm
shifts take a while to absorb (at least for me).
REQUEST: Instead of adding just a chapter covering Cocoa Bindings and
NSControllers to a new Cocoa book (or update of an existing one), I
would love to have an in-depth book covering this one topic (or topic
group). Maybe something like "Cocoa Bindings in a Nutshell", 300 pages.
:-)
Likewise, "Core Data" seems like an incredibly rich experience deserving
a book of its own.
Cheers,
Todd
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