Hey, just thought I'd give my 2 cents in case you're interested. I was really impressed with the landing page, and the buy it now while it's in development method. I'm learning Meteor now, and I've been using Discover Meteor as my go-to book resource, but I'm always interested in more.<p>However, I'm not sure the first chapter is going to be your main selling point to end users. It's the introductory chapter, that goes over the history of Meteor, and what Meteor is. That's not the chapter that will sell me on a new book, I don't know yet how you intend to teach different programming concepts, or how you introduce how to actually use the framework. It might be of more interest to people if it was the second chapter maybe?<p>I'm interested, but not quite sold yet personally.
Once you read the book, the docs and have built something I recommend checking out the source code too. It's very readable.<p><a href="https://github.com/meteor/meteor" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/meteor/meteor</a><p>I've checked out the packages, the ddp, the binary json stuff, etc it's all in there. Except for all the var self = this; stuff, I quite like it. They have really smart people over there.
That's one of the most engaging landing pages I've ever seen for a book. Sadly, once it went through to a sign-up wall for me to download the first chapter free, I gave up. Had there been a direct download link, I would have still been interested.
I'm intrigued by the picture on the front. I know Manning has a lot of covers like this but I'm intrigued what this particular chap is/is doing? Professional arm wrestler?
Great guys, can't wait to see a finished copy of this book! Seems like the books are exploding lately, right before 1.0 is about to drop.<p>Good timing!