Re: [Vala] just a suggestion

["Phil Housley" <undeconstructed gmail com>]

2009/1/20 Karl Lattimer <karl qdh org uk>:
> If we're going to do this as a team I suggest that we outline a strategy
> before we begin.
>
> Here are some chapters we'd want to consider, I'm starting off with ones
> which I'd be happy to write;
>
>  * Custom Widgets
>  * Cairo & Pango
>  * GTK Applications
>
>  * File handling
>  * Database applications
>  * Language introduction & reference
>  * DBus
>  * Common pitfalls and caveats (reserved words and similar)
>  * GObject from a vala perspective
>  * Nicely formatted API reference for all available vapi
>  * Translation
>
> Please append to this list ;)
>
> Within the chapter structure there would have to be an over-arching
> theme, I suggest what we do is take a single example application which
> has a requirement to touch a large proportion of vala, gtk, cairo,
> sqlite/mysql and more and produces a simple fun application that is
> actually useful.
>
> Essentially I suggest we gear it towards a how we made this
> application.
>
> Anyone else have any thoughts on this kind of approach?

I was thinking about this a while back when I was writing the
tutorial, I have a short contents list that I'll post here as soon as
I get home this evening.  I really do intend to get back to updating
the tutorial/docs any day now, so I'll help out with anything else
where I can.  Also, anything that I've written already I'm happy to
see copied, as long as it stays open of course.

-- 
Phil Housley