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Re: Show HN: Wrote a Book – C# 5 First Look

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Post by recursive »

felideon wrote: post #15
CodeCube wrote: post #5

Earlier quoted context omitted.

No, the book doesn't really focus on individual libraries (EF, MVC, etc.) as much as it just tries to focus on the language itself. I wanted to drive home the point that if you use C#, you can target all the major platforms :)

That's great. Focusing on specific MSFT technologies or frameworks is a waste of time. For one, they're not very good. And two, you never know how soon it'll be deprecated. On the other hand, C# the language is not terrible.

MVC seems pretty good.

Re: Show HN: Wrote a Book – C# 5 First Look

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Post by CodeCube »

recursive wrote: post #21
felideon wrote: post #15

Earlier quoted context omitted.

That's great. Focusing on specific MSFT technologies or frameworks is a waste of time. For one, they're not very good. And two, you never know how soon it'll be deprecated. On the other hand, C# the language is not terrible.

MVC seems pretty good.

Indeed ... and it is also open source and works on Mono, should you choose to host it on linux/apache - http://aspnetwebstack.codeplex.com/

Re: Show HN: Wrote a Book – C# 5 First Look

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Post by city41 »

CodeCube wrote: post #11
throwaway1979 wrote: post #8

I've been thinking about writing a book in my spare time. Can you provide some details on your experiences?

Sure, this will be my 3rd published title ( http://amazon.com/author/joelmartinez ), though first as the sole author. From first contact with the publisher to today was about six months, actual writing time was approximately 3-4 months, and the rest of the time was the editing process (still have to review/approve the final laid-out PDF tonight, actually). Process-wise, the first step is to have a solid outline and t…

When you say 3-4 months of writing time, was that full time with the book your main focus? Or done on the side?

Re: Show HN: Wrote a Book – C# 5 First Look

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Post by CodeCube »

city41 wrote: post #23
CodeCube wrote: post #11

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Sure, this will be my 3rd published title ( http://amazon.com/author/joelmartinez ), though first as the sole author. From first contact with the publisher to today was about six months, actual writing time was approximately 3-4 months, and the rest of the time was the editing process (still have to review/approve the final laid-out PDF tonight, actually). Process-wise, the first step is to have a solid outline and t…

When you say 3-4 months of writing time, was that full time with the book your main focus? Or done on the side?

On the side ... I work full time as a mobile application developer. Of course, I had to stop all other side-projects. I usually (against my better judgement) work on at least 2 other things on the side at any given moment, but this book took all of my extracurricular attention.

Re: Show HN: Wrote a Book – C# 5 First Look

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Post by jinushaun »

felideon wrote: post #15
CodeCube wrote: post #5

Earlier quoted context omitted.

No, the book doesn't really focus on individual libraries (EF, MVC, etc.) as much as it just tries to focus on the language itself. I wanted to drive home the point that if you use C#, you can target all the major platforms :)

That's great. Focusing on specific MSFT technologies or frameworks is a waste of time. For one, they're not very good. And two, you never know how soon it'll be deprecated. On the other hand, C# the language is not terrible.

The C# community is trying. It's hard to separate C# the language from C# the Microsoft product. People just have it in their minds that you're stuck with the MS tools and libraries. Things like Nancy and Albacore is where C# should be headed.

Re: Show HN: Wrote a Book – C# 5 First Look

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Post by felideon »

jinushaun wrote: post #25
felideon wrote: post #15

Earlier quoted context omitted.

That's great. Focusing on specific MSFT technologies or frameworks is a waste of time. For one, they're not very good. And two, you never know how soon it'll be deprecated. On the other hand, C# the language is not terrible.

The C# community is trying. It's hard to separate C# the language from C# the Microsoft product. People just have it in their minds that you're stuck with the MS tools and libraries. Things like Nancy and Albacore is where C# should be headed.

How does Nancy (which I had never heard) compare to something like ServiceStack?
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