Looking for Xojo book

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I spent about 2 month to read through 4 user guide and now reading the book “Introduction to programming with xojo”, I feel Xojo is a huge framework that can do a lot of things, but these user guide and book only cover a part of it, I am looking for more information, like books from Orally or some famous computer publisher, I searched Amazon, only find one book by Orally that is published in 2001, and another book in 2006.

Does anyone know if there is any good book that I can buy? Or is there any publisher has plan to publish books about Xojo?

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There are no ‘decent’ XOJO books that are up to date. I find the most relevant and interesting read is Xdev Magazine, published bi-monthly and the publisher, Marc Zeedar is on here, available electronically and back issues going back many years. http://www.xdevmag.com. This certainly helped me along the way and I even got to write and article for it, aimed at all levels of skill and experience.

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+1 for http://www.xdevmag.com

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You may also look at http://great-white-software.com/rblibrary . You will fing there a number of well regarded documents and books for beginners, intermediate or advanced Xojo developers. Some are free, but most publications are not.

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This is the best library, far more amicable to the beginner than XDev.

Also, let us not forget Eugene Dakin’s series of books , in particular “I wish I Knew How To … Begin Programming Xojo Web” since if I remember previous conversation the OP was mainly interested in web apps/sites. See http://www.scispec.ca/index.php/books
and you can buy it from http://great-white-software.com/rblibrary

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Actually, most of the articles on there (the ones with codes like RBD for RealBasic Developer) are articles that were published in xDev (previously REALbasic Developer magazine).

But I highly recommend Scott Steinman’s article on object oriented programming which is in the RBlibrary.

And +1 on Eugene’s books.

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Another highly recommended read is Aaron Ballman’s “Ramblings on Realbasic”, also in RBlibrary (and on Amazon). Pricey but well worth it.

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Both are great resources and everyone should contribute an article :slight_smile:

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[quote=163602:@Markus Winter]Actually, most of the articles on there (the ones with codes like RBD for RealBasic Developer) are articles that were published in xDev (previously REALbasic Developer magazine).

But I highly recommend Scott Steinman’s article on object oriented programming which is in the RBlibrary.

And +1 on Eugene’s books.[/quote]

XDev is nice, but the specific articles may not be in sync with the OP needs. It is more a good regular read for someone who is already familiar with Xojo programming.

As long as it is about Mac, apparently :wink:

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Thanks for everyone’s suggestion, I will dig into these 2 resources.

by the way, both xdev and rblibrary website are so old fashion. I don’t understand, if they are such professional for Xojo, why not they use this great tool to make a beautiful website.

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focus is on content, not on website :slight_smile:

Truth may be that a new website is a big and expensive project and hard to justify with current sales?

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[quote=163602:@Markus Winter]Actually, most of the articles on there (the ones with codes like RBD for RealBasic Developer) are articles that were published in xDev (previously REALbasic Developer magazine).
[/quote]
Some are - about 50% are individual articles

[quote=163614:@Tunghua TAi]
by the way, both xdev and rblibrary website are so old fashion. I don’t understand, if they are such professional for Xojo, why not they use this great tool to make a beautiful website.[/quote]
Its a sideline for me - not my primary job - thats working as an engineer for Xojo
Revamping the RBLibrary site is a reasonably large undertaking

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http://www.xdevmag.com/orders_backissue.shtml

the order back issue function in xdev is not working…

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[quote=163632:@Tunghua TAi]http://www.xdevmag.com/orders_backissue.shtml

the order back issue function in xdev is not working…[/quote]

reach out to @Marc Zeedar … He is the editor of the magazine. He can help you out.

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@scott boss , Thanks for the information, I just purchased the Omegabundle, that include all the past issues of xdev, am waiting to receive it.

After I spent 2 month to learn this tool Xojo, I really love this tool, it is great for fast development for business solutions. I wish to learn more things about it, but to sad the resources are not much. Wish Orally can publish a book about xojo in the near future.

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???
Feel free to write a Windows-centric article. Marc would love to get your contribution.

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Definitely a +1 for me on the Eugene Dakin books, I forgot those and I have them all ??

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Ask some questions here. You’ll get lots of good answers.

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@Tunghua TAi ,

@Eugene Dakin has written some very good books on many Xojo topics. I really recommend you look through his web site to see see them all.

http://scispec.ca/index.php/books

Good luck!

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[quote=163645:@Tunghua TAi]@scott boss , Thanks for the information, I just purchased the Omegabundle, that include all the past issues of xdev, am waiting to receive it.

After I spent 2 month to learn this tool Xojo, I really love this tool, it is great for fast development for business solutions. I wish to learn more things about it, but to sad the resources are not much. Wish Orally can publish a book about xojo in the near future.[/quote]
The published one more than 10 years ago
When a new version was sought by users & even the original author O’Reilly’s response was they were getting out of publishing “niche” books and pursuing more mainstream widely used topics.
I doubt you’ll ever see O’Reilly do another book about Xojo