February 10, 2010
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Since I don’t have time to write books at the moment, I’m forwarding this to world. Packt Publishing, are expanding their portfolio and looking for books on Visual Studio Integration, Administration and Reporting. Packt Publishing today announced their plan to … Continue reading
September 21, 2007
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The worlds biggest intellect has started blogging. His first post, an extensive rant on mobile phones. Interesting reading. The best bit though, is the sidebar titled “Design Matters” (about 3/4 of the way down) – his context is the phones, … Continue reading
June 12, 2006
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At long last, the lasted Al and Dave book is out (my copies have just arrived). ASP.NET 2.0 Illustrated isn’t just an update from the old beta books, but is around 80-90% rewrite. It does reuse some code and text … Continue reading
June 2, 2006
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I’ve known about this practice for a long time. Those of us involved in the publishing industry understand it. Publishers want to sell books and the best way to do that is have them prominently displayed. It’s called advertising and … Continue reading
February 3, 2006
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Aaron comments on my post about documentation. While I’d like to believe the documentation isn’t great just so I can earn a living, I don’t think that’s true. And even if they produced great docs, would that leave book authors … Continue reading
February 2, 2006
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I’ve spent the last day or so looking into web services and security, a topic I’ve managed to avoid for quite a while. I’ve done lots of reading, which has left me less thaan clear on my options, and have … Continue reading
December 14, 2005
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Julia is talking about the Google Book Search system, which allows you to search within digitised copies of books. As an author I’ve though about this, and to some degree the technical field is the one most at risk. After … Continue reading
August 19, 2005
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Late, still working, and getting tired. But, irrespective of that, there are some words I just seem to have a block on. Parameters is one. Don’t know why, but I always struggle, and always mistype it. Others include runat (I … Continue reading
August 11, 2005
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Started by Neil Gaiman when he was trying to drum up support and funds for the CBLDF, a bunch of other authors are now auctioning of character names in forthcoming books, with proceeds going to the First Amendment Project. So … Continue reading
July 13, 2005
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So it seems I’ll have to change the complete style and content of my next book if I want it to get into schools anywhere . [Listening to: Spit On A Stranger - Kathryn Williams - Relations (Limited Edition) [UK]]