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It was September 2007 when I started work on this book. The conversation had been innocent enough. "Fancy doing a quick update of our ASP.NET book?" said John Osborn of O'Reilly. "There's not too much new in VS2008 and ASP.NET 3.5 this time round. Should take a couple of months and be out for Christmas." Naively, I agreed with that sentiment and to update the whole darn thing with the guidance of Jesse Liberty and Dan Hurwitz, the authors of the previous edition of this book, signed the contract. Six months later and...
Well, tech books anyway. Charles Petzold has written an excellent post on the state (and the point) of being a technical book author in response to Jeff Atwood's own post on how he found writing his first book now that it has found its way to the shops.
And Charles has it pretty much spot on vis a vis the experience and the rewards of producing a 700+ page book. And the comments to the post are pretty much in two camps : "I chose to write a blog" and "why don't you self-publish?" Ironically, Charles is probably one of the few...
A lifesign and a fervent wish that blog editors like this could actually backdate entries at the author's request. I mean I know when I did stuff, but I just didn’t have time or the inclination to write them down. Does that make me a bad blogger? I don't think so. Roughly in order then, I've
Been to my cousin’s engagement party
Witnessed the film project I crewed finally finished and on the big screen
Been invited to work in pre-production on a new feature film project with the...