Thank you for a great book on NodeJS (my fav). And special thanks on making it available on Kindle/Amazon.com (my other fav) !!! :)
Smashing Node.JS book is out.
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#42Earlier quoted context omitted.
1984 demonstrated that your ability depends on the continued goodwill and competence of Amazon, who reserved for themselves the power to steal any of your Kindle store purchases.
That case was so ironic I thought you were referring to George Orwell there for a minute.
For those such as myself that didn't catch the reference, nor hear about this the first time around: "Amazon Erases Orwell Books From Kindle" [1].
[1]: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/18/technology/companies/18ama...
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#43Not to be a hater but this book got MAD programming errors. I guess since its not for beginners, there's no read to technically edit? I mean, you can infer what he meant but man it would suck if you didn't know JS that well. I still applaud this man for his contributions though.
You made an account just to bash this book?
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#44Purchased! Can't wait to start it. Keep up the great work Guillermo!
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#45What about that book he is selling? Is that any good? Have some of you even read it yet?
I have only read the first two chapters (setup and Javascript an overview). The content do not look bad (but I have not read node.js specific parts yet so I can't really tell). The bad part is that it would need some serious proof-reading... Some sentences are missing words or are hardly understandable and there are some mistakes in the code.
Reiterating the sentiment. Seems great so far, but there are some errors that could create confusion. The good news is the author left his email address, so I dare say he's well aware by now :)
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#46I've always been a bit weary of purchasing technical books for the Kindle: the few I've done that way are largely unreadable. What's the case here? As for the content itself, I'm pretty good with JavaScript, both for the web and for node. Does this add anything new?
And I've been wary about publishing them :) Shameless plug: I put out jsmag in PDF, and regularly get people asking for Kindle version, but have not yet been able to make something look decent. Revisiting this again next month. Suggestions/guidance on this topic welcome.
I had good luck with formatting things for my Kindle with LaTeX. I just set the page size to be proportionate to the Kindle screen and compiled a PDF. The result was far better looking than using the normal Kindle format and I didn't have the normal issues with PDFs because mine actually fit on the screen.
This wasn't the most space efficient system, but it was probably the best one aesthetically. Also, since I just created a custom .sty file to automate this, I can have my single source document output both normal-sized and Kindle-sized PDFs.
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#47It will be available on safaribooksonline by the end of the month ... so if you already have a safari account you can just wait a little
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#48I would buy this if there were a PDF version available. Am I able to purchase the Kindle copy and download some kind of Kindle app to read it? I really want this book.
I was ready to buy a PDF. I'm not maintaining a Kindle account and app for 1 book.
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#49Earlier quoted context omitted.
And I've been wary about publishing them :) Shameless plug: I put out jsmag in PDF, and regularly get people asking for Kindle version, but have not yet been able to make something look decent. Revisiting this again next month. Suggestions/guidance on this topic welcome.
I had good luck with formatting things for my Kindle with LaTeX. I just set the page size to be proportionate to the Kindle screen and compiled a PDF. The result was far better looking than using the normal Kindle format and I didn't have the normal issues with PDFs because mine actually fit on the screen. This wasn't the most space efficient system, but it was probably the best one aesthetically. Also, since I just…
interesting - thanks.
Re: Smashing Node.JS book is out.
#50Not to be a hater but this book got MAD programming errors. I guess since its not for beginners, there's no read to technically edit? I mean, you can infer what he meant but man it would suck if you didn't know JS that well. I still applaud this man for his contributions though.
Unfortunately, this seems to be about the norm for first editions of the Smashing library.