Posted on December 19th, 2005 by Kevin Dangoor

TurboGears book from Prentice Hall

It’s official!

After a month of discussions with two different publishers (both of
which sounded quite excited about the project), Mark Ramm and I have
agreed to write a TurboGears book for Prentice Hall. Prentice Hall is
the largest technical publisher in the world and will provide
excellent marketing and distribution support for the book. The
worldwide reach is important, as TurboGears has many users outside of
the US.

We’re working with Mark Taub, who has experience publishing books for
other open source projects. Mark also worked with Bruce Perens on
Bruce’s series of books at Prentice Hall.

We’re grateful for the positive reviews and useful input our proposal
received from some notable names in the Python world. This project is
going to be a lot of fun, and we can’t wait to get it out there.
(Please wait a few months for delivery :)

10 Responses to “TurboGears book from Prentice Hall”

Ian Landsman's Weblog on December 19th, 2005 6:07 pm:

Book Deal for TurboGears

Congratulations to Kevin on getting a book deal from Prentice Hall for his open source behemoth, TurboGears. That’s fantastic news. Perhaps he’ll be able to make a career of TurboGears. I wonder if Zesty will ever hit the street?
On a sid…

Blargh » Livro sobre TurboGears on December 19th, 2005 10:09 pm:

[...] OMG, vão lançar um livro sobre TurboGears! [...]

import this. » Blog Archive » TurboGears book on the way on December 19th, 2005 10:58 pm:

[...] Quoth Kevin: After a month of discussions with two different publishers (both of which sounded quite excited about the project), Mark Ramm and I have agreed to write a TurboGears book for Prentice Hall. Prentice Hall is the largest technical publisher in the world and will provide excellent marketing and distribution support for the book. The worldwide reach is important, as TurboGears has many users outside of the US. [...]

Ben Arwin on December 20th, 2005 5:09 pm:

Congrats Kevin!

Dan on January 11th, 2006 9:33 pm:

Any chance there might be a beta book like the Rails folks did? It seemed to be pretty successful, and it was really nice to have the pdf a few months before getting the print copy. In any case, congrats!

tazzzzz on January 12th, 2006 10:30 am:

We haven’t worked out the specifics, but there will be in-progress drafts posted in some form. Stay tuned!

Sridhar Ratna on January 18th, 2006 6:39 am:

That would be awesome!

Vern on March 30th, 2006 12:56 am:

It can be a bit of a challenge to write a book on such a fast moving technology, just wondering about the projected publishing timeline versus the development timeline, ie. will the book cover the latest developments to version 1.0 (when it’s released) and what’s the time window from final draft to actual printing and sale?

In any case I’m looking forward to the book, all the best!

tazzzzz on March 30th, 2006 7:58 am:

I have an advantage in writing this book, since I know the major directions we’ll be taking. There will certainly be some smaller features that don’t make it in the book, but the book should cover all of the biggies at the time it comes out. We’re certainly going to try to make it as close as possible to the code at the time of the book’s release.

Ruby, Rails, Web2.0 » Blog Archive » Fresh Meat - Fisrt Impressions of Agile Web Development with Rails (2nd ed) and Ruby for Rails on May 4th, 2006 9:20 am:

[...] The point is not (only) this, since you can do the same with a few Java books (although not 3, but something like 10), however you will have harder time with Python (There is a Django book on the way, and also the Turbogears guys are publishing one but neither are out yet – but no PickAxe, AFAIK) – however, the point is, based on the experiences i have had with C++/Java/Python books that neither of them are so well written/to the point/effectively explained/well built up than the Ruby ones. Simply put: The Ruby/Rails books are the best technical books i have ever read on programming and (web) development. [...]