[ANN] New Book: Development Oriented Development

[Andre Garzia]

Hi Martin,

Thanks a ton for the kind words and feedback. Your message makes me quite
happy because what you're describing is exactly the kind of experience that
I wanted to encourage when I wrote that book. Let us know how your plugin
writing goes :-) oh, I'm also interested in feedback for part 2 of that
book which is about project-focused tooling, if you have any thoughts about
it, I'd be keen to know more.

Thanks!
A

On Fri, 19 Mar 2021 at 15:49, Martin Koob <mkoob at rogers.com> wrote:

> Hi Andre
>
> I am enjoying your new book. It demystifies for me plug-ins and how to
> create them. My mystification creates anxiety around venturing into
> creating a plugin much less adding existing plugins to my IDE and
> configuring them.  After reading the first sections of your book that
> anxiety is dissipating.
>
> You advice to look for areas of friction in your workflow really relates
> to an experience I had recently.  For a new project I had to make lots of
> fields with lots of labels and changing the text of a label takes way
> longer than it should.  Finally, after years of grumbling to myself that
> this should be easier I created a handler that I added as a behaviour to a
> template label field.  Basically it allows you to set the text of a label
> by double clicking with the browse tool on a text label field and then
> entering the text in an answer dialog. I could then option drag the label
> field template and then change its text with a simple double click. As a
> bonus I could set it to align left by holding the option + double clicking
> the label field.
>
> It worked ok speeding up that task but it was a handler incorporated in a
> specific project. I thought this should be incorporated into the IDE to
> really work as I intended but I wasn’t sure how I could do that. I had
> thoughts of frontscripts or backscripts or plugins in mind but I did not
> know how to work with any of these, and, due to the mystification factor
> which leads to anxiety which prevents me from trying new approaches I
> didn’t go any further with that.  Now after reading up to page 43 of your
> book I think that I should be able to create a plugin to add this feature
> to mould the IDE.
>
> Now I am starting the section “What are your needs?” Well I already have
> my need in mind — a quick and easy way to set label field text.  My goal
> now is to create a plugin that will accomplish this.   Looking forward to
> learning how in the rest of your book.
>
> Martin Koob.
>
>
> Sent from my iPhone after much consternation trying to type with one
> finger.
>
> > On Mar 17, 2021, at 6:02 AM, Andre Garzia via use-livecode <
> use-livecode at lists.runrev.com> wrote:
> >
> > Thanks a ton for the kind words my friends :D
> >
> > In essence, this is a very simple book that is aiming to convey a single
> > idea: "you can and should create  your own tools". I think that is a
> topic
> > that we need to explore more.
> >
> > Cheers
> > A
> >
> > On Wed, 17 Mar 2021 at 01:56, Sean Cole (Pi) via use-livecode <
> > use-livecode at lists.runrev.com> wrote:
> >
> >> Hi Andre
> >>
> >> I had to get this one. The title alone intrigued me. But looking at the
> >> contents I know I need it to grow further. I'm looking forward to
> getting
> >> your insights. I'll start tonight.
> >>
> >> All the very best
> >> Sean
> >> Pi
> >>
> >>
> >>> On Tue, 16 Mar 2021 at 14:11, Andre Garzia via use-livecode <
> >>> use-livecode at lists.runrev.com> wrote:
> >>>
> >>>> Hi Friends,
> >>>>
> >>>> I'm quite happy to announce the initial release of my new LiveCode
> >> eBook.
> >>>> This is a companion book to the previous "LiveCode Advanced
> Application
> >>>> Architecture" eBook that dives further into making LiveCode IDE a
> >>>> comfortable place for your development workflow.
> >>>>
> >>>> "Development Oriented Development" is a novel approach to coding with
> >>>> LiveCode that prioritizes developer comfort and robustness by
> favouring
> >>>> treating LiveCode as a mouldable environment. By the end of this book,
> >>>> you’ll know how and why to build custom plugins to make your
> >> development
> >>>> workflow easier, and how bespoke project-specific tools lead to
> >> software
> >>>> that is easier to maintain.
> >>>>
> >>>> You can get the new book at: https://payhip.com/b/18eH
> >>>>
> >>>> I look forward to feedback, suggestions, and requests for more
> chapters
> >>>>
> >>>> Cheers
> >>>> Andre
> >>>>
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