Books
As a writer, this pisses me off. Someone scraped the contents of Darren Di Lieto’s website and published it into a 350-page book being sold online for $100. Publishers have faked their details, resellers refuse to pull the book. Please spread the word about this and help alert people that they should not buy this book. Technorati Tags: Colorful Illustrations 93C,ISBN 978 988 98142 0 5,Plagiarized Book,Great Creativity Organization,Azur Corporation
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...
After a few more weeks writing and production time than originally planned, my latest book, Beginning ASP.NET Databases: From Novice To Professional went to press today. Thanks to Damien for co-writing it. As is the usual way of books with deadlines attached, there's a lot in there that I'm proud of and a few things I probably would have added if I had had the time. Please email me if you'd like a copy to review and I'll be happy to sort you out. Expect to see it in the shops in a few weeks time. You can already pre-order...