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Rails in a Nutshell Manuscript Open For Collaboration
By Keith FahlgrenOctober 19, 2009 | Comments: 4
Following hot on the launch of the Building iPhone Apps with HTML, CSS, and JavaScript manuscript three weeks ago, I'm pleased that Rails in a Nutshell, from Cody Fauser, James MacAulay, Edward Ocampo-Gooding and John Guenin is now live and ready for your comments. Any book that starts with a section in the preface called "What makes you happy?" is worth your attention.
Opening these manuscripts to the community has always been about creating engagement between the authors and readers, so I'm delighted to report that in the last 21 days Building iPhone Apps with HTML, CSS, and JavaScript has already received 402 comments, with 284 from the readers and
118 (!) from the author, Jonathan Stark. 41 users have left comments so far and Mike Boulet, Garrett Murray, Andrew, and William Doane are in the lead to date. To get a sense of what this process is really supposed to look like, pull up Chapter 3 and click "Show all comments" up at the top.
tags:
- books,
- ofps,
- open source,
- rails,
- ruby
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Bookworm
The free platform for reading EPUB books online from any device.
Integrated with O'Reilly Labs 02/09/09.
First translations added 03/11/09.
Feedbooks integration & one-click addition added 07/29/09.
Beta Projects
Open Feedback Publishing System (OFPS)
Participate in collaborative community feedback to help refine in-progress, open manuscripts like Building iPhone Apps with HTML, CSS, and JavaScript or the published Programming Scala.
Released 05/20/09.
O'Reilly Product Metadata Interface (OPMI)
Want to know all we know about an O'Reilly book? Give us an ISBN and we'll let you in on our (RDF) secrets!
Released 02/09/09.
Open Source
DocBook-XSL 1.74.3 with Improved ePub Output
Keith Fahlgren (O'Reilly Media) helped release the stable 1.74.3 release of the open source DocBook-XSL project and improved the EPUB generation stylesheets. Paul Norton (Adobe) and Liza Daly (Threepress) provided very helpful patches.
Released 02/17/09.
DocBook-XSL 1.74.0 EPUB Output
Paul Norton (Adobe) and Keith Fahlgren (O'Reilly Media) have contributed code to the 1.74.0 release of the open source DocBook-XSL project that generates EPUB documents from DocBook. An alpha-quality reference implementation in Ruby was also been provided.
EPUB is an open standard of the The International Digital Publishing Forum (IDPF) and something O'Reilly is trying to help gain wider adoption.
Released 06/02/08.
4 Comments
I found this idea interesting but I need more time to digest it. Anyway thanks for sharing. I appreciate the webmaster's efforts.
I think the i-phone apps will keep coming as demand for the I-phone 4 is very large. It is starting this month I believe in June or July. Economic depression is not included for i-phone, Rails improvements will certainly help too.
Looking a year later, and the unfortunate passing of Steve Jobs, I really think Apple is in big trouble. As for the apps, I question how popular they will be in the next coming years. Sure they are popular now, but I think it's just a fad.
JM
It has been an interesting ride with Apple and all the iphone apps that have come about. The future is still uncertain, and with the passing of Steve Jobs, Apple has a rough road ahead. I hope that the iphone/ipad/ etc.. stay strong in their culture and the popularity of the apps keep coming.
Martin