Re: What is the status on the New Cocoa 2.0 Books?

FROM : Michael Gregoire
DATE : Thu Mar 13 02:51:10 2008

That's ok with me, frankly I thought that XCode 2 Book was garbage.


On Mar 12, 2008, at 9:48 PM, Vince LaMonica wrote:

> FYI I talked to the publisher tuesday and the Cohen book, "The 
> XCode 3 Book" has been canceled :(
>
> /vjl/
>
> On Mar 12, 2008, at 9:24 PM, Michael Gregoire <<email_removed>> wrote:
>

>> Actually, the "docs" are already online at apple.com.
>> Books are not "docs", they're tutorials. Though tutorials and 
>> guides are severely lacking in the Objective-C 2.0 arena.
>>
>> On Mar 12, 2008, at 9:09 PM, colo wrote:
>>

>>> Wow thats a long time to wait for new docs and working tutorials for
>>> the new Leopard API's .
>>> As I two really want to get started at learning how to code for the
>>> NDA thing as well
>>>
>>> That NDA thing must be just that awesome to wait so long for some 
>>> docs
>>>
>>>
>>> On Wed, Mar 12, 2008 at 8:48 PM, Gary L. Wade
>>> <<email_removed>> wrote:

>>>>> I know hillegass is doing one but has anyone a date on it ?
>>>>> And might there be others ?

>>>>
>>>> Barnes and Noble shows a publication of June 13, 2008, and 
>>>> Amazon.com shows a publication of May 26, 2008:
>>>>
>>>> <http://search.barnesandnoble.com/booksearch/isbnInquiry.asp?

>>>> EAN=9780321503619>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> <http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0321503619>
>>>>
>>>> The B&N publication date may be later because their web site 
>>>> shows it as 500 pages while Amazon's shows it as 464 pages. 
>>>> Also, B&N is charging $2.25 more, so I guess those 36 extra 
>>>> pages and almost three weeks must be worth it.
>>>>
>>>> Okay, I really don't believe that either, but at least you've 
>>>> got a place to check for it.
>>>>
>>>> Now that I think about it, maybe from the success of the iPhone 
>>>> and the popularity of that NDA-based thing we're not to talk 
>>>> about here, they may be expecting the Amazon first printing to 
>>>> sell out, causing a second printing with errata in the B&N 
>>>> version that will also include info on that NDA-based thing 
>>>> we're not to talk about here.
>>>>
>>>> Okay, I really really don't believe that either, but I really 
>>>> have been wanting to talk about that NDA-based thing we're not 
>>>> to talk about here.
>>>>
>>>> Alright, that's all I'm going to say about that NDA-based thing 
>>>> we're not supposed to talk about here.
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