Book on forrest

["C.Grobmeier" <gr...@possessed.de>]

Hi all,

last year i decided to write a book. I wrote a email to a publisher and the they told me that i should start immediatly. I did. Roundabout May 2007 the book will be published. It's written in german, should have 150-180 pages and covers Apache Forrest.

After lots of weeks, coffee and playing with forrest the book is quite raw, but nearly completed. It's a start-with-forrest book and explains how to write v20 documents, tabs and such stuff. It also explains how to use the skin, but not how to modify. I recommended the new upcoming dispatcher before creating a new skin. It shows how to make new contenttypes. To round the corners, it introduces cocoon, tells you how to write a plugin. In the book is a little v20 reference for easy every day use.

If you have suggestions what you consider as "must have" to give users a kickstart, now is the time to speak up. And if you are speaking german and want to give feedback at the books prototype, i would be glad. Just drop me a line. At the end i don't want "just a book for the sake of having written one" but i want a simple, nice book for a good kickstart into forrest. I believe, that a book is always necessary for a broader audience.

However, now is the book nearly complete and i want to say "thank you" for your help in the last months. Esspecially with the quite new dispatcher, where not all of the documentation is up to date. I admit that my knowledge of Cocoon and XSLT was less; but now i feel quite comfortable with these technologies and that was not only cause of the good documentation of both projects, Cocoon and Forrest, but also cause of the mostly very good and quick answers. Thank you.

I hope that i can contribute a bit to forrest after the book is published, maybe in the section of documentation. We'll see. 

Cheers,
Chris

Re: Book on forrest

[Ross Gardler <rg...@apache.org>]

C.Grobmeier wrote:
>> The best way you can thank those who have helped you is to contribute to
>> Forrest. Documentation would be very welcome by developers and users
>> alike.
> 
> I know that and i will do that when the book is in press. I think to work at the dispatcher docs. 

Cool, thanks Chris. I understand you have deadlines.

Ross

Re: Book on forrest

[Thorsten Scherler <th...@apache.org>]

On Tue, 2007-02-13 at 11:34 +0100, C.Grobmeier wrote:
> > The best way you can thank those who have helped you is to contribute to
> > Forrest. Documentation would be very welcome by developers and users
> > alike.
> 
> I know that and i will do that when the book is in press. I think to work at the dispatcher docs. I just thought this would be of interest and that the developers may want to influence the book in some way. I think a book is also a contribution altough it's not free (usually).

:) 

The dispatcher in a book. Wow, must see.

I recruit for proof reading if you want and send me a copy (I am
German). 

...PLEASE... 
if you can contribute dispatcher docu that is most wanted here and very
welcome. 

> 
> Chris.

Thanks Chris.

salu2
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Thorsten Scherler                                 thorsten.at.apache.org
Open Source Java & XML                consulting, training and solutions

Re: Book on forrest

["C.Grobmeier" <gr...@possessed.de>]

> The best way you can thank those who have helped you is to contribute to
> Forrest. Documentation would be very welcome by developers and users
> alike.

I know that and i will do that when the book is in press. I think to work at the dispatcher docs. I just thought this would be of interest and that the developers may want to influence the book in some way. I think a book is also a contribution altough it's not free (usually).

Chris.

Re: Book on forrest

[Ross Gardler <rg...@apache.org>]

C.Grobmeier wrote:
> However, now is the book nearly complete and 

Congratulations on nearly completing your book.

> i want to say "thank you" for your help in the last months. 

The best way you can thank those who have helped you is to contribute to 
Forrest. Documentation would be very welcome by developers and users alike.

Ross