[NTG-context] Re: An announcement of my new book.

[Jim <zlists+context@jdvb.ca>]

Hi,

a book like this would be very valuable.  I hope your project is
successful.  And, as soon as you have something on gitlab, I will be happy
to read it and give feedback.

In terms of organization... one of the things I don't like about "A Not So
Short Guide..." is that it starts with information about how you structure
large projects.  I think this is a serious mistake, it is like explaining
to someone how to pass a car in an F1 race when they don't know where the
gas pedal in their car is.  I got bogged down on that and wasted time
reading (and forgetting) it, because I don't yet have any projects that
big.

Anyway, good luck with the project.

                                Jim

On Tue, Feb 13, 2024 at 22:22 (-0000), Sir Coleman via ntg-context wrote:

> I'm glad to know there's a demand for this book.

> Hopefully soon I'll upload a draft of it to GitLab, so if there's anything that you learned that you would like to contribute to this book, you would be able to do so. I personally would be very happy if someone would give me examples of things a user would like to do, because my own use cases can only go that far.

> I'll make sure to make finding information in this book as direct as possible. If you find that some information in this book isn't clear or easy to learn from (or locate in the first place), then I'll expect a complaint about it.

> I'll post here a link to the GitLab repository when part of the book has been written and ready for feedback. Should take some time, but not too long.
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