Good Books
Here are some books I’ve read and own that I recommend. Every software developer can benefit from each of these books, whether you program in Smalltalk or not. There are millions of books out there, most not worth reading, and many even worth avoiding for the damage they do. Any fool can write a book, many do, but only a select few write books that are actually worth reading. These books however, are great, every one of them, great reads.
So here, in no particular order…
Most of them about Smalltalk !?? Is it your favorite language?
No, only two of them are about Smalltalk. Yes, it’s my favorite language, because it’s my favorite programming environment. It’s what programming was meant to be.
There are at least ten books (maybe fifteen) about Ruby on Rails, but not a single one about Seaside. How come?
I’m trying to figure out how to use Seaside to develop a commercial website and there are no books to help me. There are several online tutorials but they are frankly too simple in their scope.
I’m almost tempted to give up Seaside/Smalltalk and turn to RoR. That would be a great shame…
Seaside isn’t that mainstream yet. If you aren’t willing to get into the code itself and its comments, or hang out in the list asking questions and writing code, then it’s not really the framework you’re looking for. There are a few blogs, but most helpful is the mailing list itself. You do not however, want to make a real project your first Seaside app, you need to write some sample apps, toys, to teach you the framework.