I was talking to some folk at work yesterday, and they suggested that perhaps I’m reading the wrong books. In fact, they might have been a tiny bit less polite than that. So, I whipped up a little recommendation engine last night. Its nothing fancy, but if you want to recommend a book for me,…
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Mark is right
Mark Pilgrim is a smart guy, and he’s right that the correct time to start writing is while you have that sense of wonder. That was the big difference in the approaches I took with the ImageMagick book (an attempt to be definitive and therefore boring to write), versus the MythTV book (a cleaned up…
The book
Just a little status update… The book went to print last night, so I guess that makes me a published author or something. Cool, huh?
Some details about the publication process
Pascal asked in the comments to a previous post about the book about how I was going about writing the book and how the publication process works. It’s a good question, and something I meant to cover here anyway, so now seems like a good time. I’ll start from the beginning with a brief summary…