You Say You Know Shoes, But You Just Aren't Nobody

The last lines on page 14 are difficult to make out. It looks like: “So flows hit the ?? and move down!” But that’s pretty hard to make out. I’m guessing `??` is… “edge”?

The background pages look fine… unless there’s some secret text I’m missing. <:)

“working on” is the appropriate term for the Twitter shoe. (‘Shwitter’? …perhaps not.) We’ll see if the weekend proves profitable for Shoes & Twitter hacking.

Still waiting for mine to turn up. It’s despatched but takes a while to chug across on the banana boat from the US.

The book is great, but you must raise the price, not lower it! You have devalued my shoes and I demand satisfaction

Still waiting on mine.

I got my copy today, Awesome job!

I read through the book, I’ll try and go through it again with shoes running, to play with the examples & such.

Got the book. It’s great! I read the first half in a single sitting (on the toilet) and went home and told my wife how smart I am. She’s duly impressed.

Mine arrived here in Northern Ireland this morning. ‘Looks great–yes it’s a bit dark on that stacks page. Thanks for the love!

Ordered on October 29th and still waiting to receive it in Switzerland

Mine arrived earlier this week. I inhaled it twice, partially out of just a joy of reading and experiencing, and partially to soak in the knowledge. I wish all libs were so entertaining, yet well thought out.

I did run into some lockup issues… but I suspect the patch above addresses that?

So, to all of you out there, is it completely bothersome to have to wait for this thing? Would you have preferred just having a free PDF? Or do you like having the real, tangible thing first?

I don’t like waiting, usually, but I have been taught how to do it well by the world’s slowbies. I don’t mind either way, but if it’s meant to be a book, not a PDF, then I’ll wait. (ordering mine now)

agreeing with hadley also…don’t sell yourself short. It’s not the money, it’s the image of what the product gives for $5.57 vs $8.72 vs #{"$13.%d" % rand(100)}.

On second thought, maybe it’s not such a good idea in the first place to put a price on what you make yourself.

Heh, looks like I’ll be waiting for a while…letting my eCheck clear + book manufacturing + shipping comes out to (9 + rand(11)).days. All the more time to break in my new shoes.

I spent the last week anticipating NKS, and got giddy when it arrived in the mail today. When it arrived, I downloaded Shoes onto my laptop and immediately gathered every ethernet and phone cable in the house so that I wouldn’t get distracted by the Internet.

My neighbor Thomas helped me weave a hammock from the cable. This made a comfortable place where I was able to learn Shoes. Thumbs up on the comic book and thanks for the inspiration!

I like having a book–I’d like to buy the poignant guide on lulu

It didn’t really take very long for me to get the book, and my eyes are much happier to get to look at paper once in a while.

I’d buy a book of scribbles if it had ruby code hidden in it. In fact, it’d be great if the next book didn’t even have a real theme other than just being snippets of code to type out and discover, a la old BASIC code in old computer magazines.

Just got my copy today–amazing! High-fives all around, I love NKS. I, for one, eagerly waited for the printed copy and would also have willingly shelled out more for this gem (no pun intended) in and of itself, and also to support all the awesomeness you’ve made before.

I’d very likely do the same for a printed copy of the poignant guide, and it’s essentially a done deal if it contained some bonus action.

Woo Shoes!

my bad, it got stuck in the company’s mailbox. Now I have it !!

@_why: for artful books, I prefer not to be spoiled by the PDF

Just finished to read it. It was a nice read.

For the critics, on page 14, last paragraph, the text is too dark and really hard to read. Pages 19 and 20’s borders are cropped for 3 or 5 pixels.

Thanks for the art !

Well I just placed my order for the cheap version of the book. Had you actually charged a real price to earn some dollars I would have paid more just fine. Oh vells.

But I still would rather get a pdf first still caause I dont have to wait, and pdfs are easy to search. print is great after words but please release a pdf to the customers that have paid. http://www.flexiblerails.com/ did the same deal with lulu but had the beta book system in pdf and that was great.

‘Original’ stapled version shipped 2nd Nov, arrived here in the UK today Weds 14th.

p14: I think it’s “So flows hit the side and move down”–but there’s nearly no contrast.

P32: last sentence ‘On the Shoes wiki, see the “Multi Page” link on the front page’. Err, no, I don’t…

Even with shipping, I don’t begrudge what I paid. I’d be happy to do a PragProgs deal and pay a bit extra for a PDF as well, to save me having to type in the examples.

+1 to the suggestion of a copy of the Poignant Guide prepared by the calloused hands of the original craftsman.

DJ

It was sent 9 days ago but still hasn’t arrived.

This makes me sad.

Um, guys, it’s already there.

It is here.

This makes me happy.

anticipated
a package with four foam sheets
thanks for the book, why