Re: Cocoa Programming Book...

FROM : Don Yacktman
DATE : Thu Oct 03 19:47:01 2002

On Thursday, October 3, 2002, at 06:53  PM, Mark Steinberg wrote:
> Of course I have a criticism:
> I wish it had been two separate books that shipped together.  The
> things just so damn big and heavy.


Unfortunately Sams wasn't interested in a 2-3 volume set.  We did
suggest the idea to them.  The other thing is that if we had been
allowed to split it up, we probably could have written even more
material.  As it is, there are things that were in the original outline
that didn't make it into the book for space reasons.  (Believe it or
not!)  Still, I'm quite pleased with the final product on the whole.


> Thanks for the great resource guys!


You're welcome!  One of my personal goals with this project was to
"create the book I wish I had when I was starting out".  Hopefully that
translates into a really good resource for the Cocoa community.

I just hope that using all my past 2+ years' free time on the book
instead of the Mac OS X version of the MiscKit was the right choice as
far as a way to help the community.  I couldn't do both so I tried to
pick what I thought would be most helpful.  Of course, now I'm working
on the kit in my spare time...what little I have...so the kit is no
longer in 'pining for the fiords' mode.  And now that the book is out, I
figure that the community has matured to the point where something like
the MiscKit would work better anyway, so I think the timing is probably
good in that respect.

--
Later,
Don Yacktman
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