nice guys! keep up the good work :)
Meteor in Action
11–20 of 25 posts
Re: Meteor in Action
#12I'm intrigued by the picture on the front. I know Manning has a lot of covers like this but I'm intrigued what this particular chap is/is doing? Professional arm wrestler?
Re: Meteor in Action
#13Manuel Schoebel has a strong presence in the Meteor community and many insightful blog posts. I'm confident this book is going to deliver.
Re: Meteor in Action
#14Hey, just thought I'd give my 2 cents in case you're interested. I was really impressed with the landing page, and the buy it now while it's in development method. I'm learning Meteor now, and I've been using Discover Meteor as my go-to book resource, but I'm always interested in more.
However, I'm not sure the first chapter is going to be your main selling point to end users. It's the introductory chapter, that goes over the history of Meteor, and what Meteor is. That's not the chapter that will sell me on a new book, I don't know yet how you intend to teach different programming concepts, or how you introduce how to actually use the framework. It might be of more interest to people if it was the second chapter maybe?
I'm interested, but not quite sold yet personally.
Re: Meteor in Action
#15Hey, just thought I'd give my 2 cents in case you're interested. I was really impressed with the landing page, and the buy it now while it's in development method. I'm learning Meteor now, and I've been using Discover Meteor as my go-to book resource, but I'm always interested in more. However, I'm not sure the first chapter is going to be your main selling point to end users. It's the introductory chapter, that goes…
We are absolutely interested in feedback like this, keep it coming!
Indeed the first chapter is tough - we learned that through various iterations with many reviewers. Eventually we decided to just introduce you and skip the meta talk about methods and stuff. That should be in the "Welcome" passage before the actual chapter (included in chapter 1 - free download). If you didn't find the argument to let you know whether or not the book is for you we might have to refine this section and bring out our main points more.
Personally I am not convinced a starting chapter that told you how the book is going to teach you things would help that much with deciding whether you'd be comfortable with said book. It might be much more helpful to have a more advanced chapter as a free read oftentimes.
Eventually Meteor in Action will be a printed book as well, so that theoretically you will be able to browse through all chapters in a book store of your choice. Always assuming they carry Manning book, of course :)
Re: Meteor in Action
#16Hey, just thought I'd give my 2 cents in case you're interested. I was really impressed with the landing page, and the buy it now while it's in development method. I'm learning Meteor now, and I've been using Discover Meteor as my go-to book resource, but I'm always interested in more. However, I'm not sure the first chapter is going to be your main selling point to end users. It's the introductory chapter, that goes…
We are absolutely interested in feedback like this, keep it coming! Indeed the first chapter is tough - we learned that through various iterations with many reviewers. Eventually we decided to just introduce you and skip the meta talk about methods and stuff. That should be in the "Welcome" passage before the actual chapter (included in chapter 1 - free download). If you didn't find the argument to let you know wheth…
What if you put a small excerpt of each chapter? or, maybe just a TOC (I didn't see that on site)
This would solve what buyer wants without giving all your content away
Re: Meteor in Action
#17Hey, just thought I'd give my 2 cents in case you're interested. I was really impressed with the landing page, and the buy it now while it's in development method. I'm learning Meteor now, and I've been using Discover Meteor as my go-to book resource, but I'm always interested in more. However, I'm not sure the first chapter is going to be your main selling point to end users. It's the introductory chapter, that goes…
We are absolutely interested in feedback like this, keep it coming! Indeed the first chapter is tough - we learned that through various iterations with many reviewers. Eventually we decided to just introduce you and skip the meta talk about methods and stuff. That should be in the "Welcome" passage before the actual chapter (included in chapter 1 - free download). If you didn't find the argument to let you know wheth…
I appreciated the broad overview and rationale for using Meteor in the introduction. Well laid out, well written. I'm looking forward to the rest of the book -- the best of luck with it.
Re: Meteor in Action
#18I have seen both Manuel and Stephan being very active in the community! They also organize Meteor meetups in Germany, Cologne.
Re: Meteor in Action
#19Hey, just thought I'd give my 2 cents in case you're interested. I was really impressed with the landing page, and the buy it now while it's in development method. I'm learning Meteor now, and I've been using Discover Meteor as my go-to book resource, but I'm always interested in more. However, I'm not sure the first chapter is going to be your main selling point to end users. It's the introductory chapter, that goes…
We are absolutely interested in feedback like this, keep it coming! Indeed the first chapter is tough - we learned that through various iterations with many reviewers. Eventually we decided to just introduce you and skip the meta talk about methods and stuff. That should be in the "Welcome" passage before the actual chapter (included in chapter 1 - free download). If you didn't find the argument to let you know wheth…
Personally worked on a few tech books (150+) and everyone wants to do an introduction chapter but how many people buy a book without knowing the history or Wikipedia level info of the tech?
Jump in faster I say.
Site is extremely well done. Is that something advocated by Manning or a personal thing?
Re: Meteor in Action
#20Earlier quoted context omitted.
We are absolutely interested in feedback like this, keep it coming! Indeed the first chapter is tough - we learned that through various iterations with many reviewers. Eventually we decided to just introduce you and skip the meta talk about methods and stuff. That should be in the "Welcome" passage before the actual chapter (included in chapter 1 - free download). If you didn't find the argument to let you know wheth…
Personally worked on a few tech books (150+) and everyone wants to do an introduction chapter but how many people buy a book without knowing the history or Wikipedia level info of the tech? Jump in faster I say. Site is extremely well done. Is that something advocated by Manning or a personal thing?
Thanks for the compliments - it's a personal site, not officially run by Manning.