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8 Months, 2 Days
That’s how long it takes to ‘write’ a 500 page computer book. I started the process on December 1st, 2008 and it’s pretty much consumed my after-hours life since then. I have: Written 17 chapters and 3 appendices Captured screen shots or drawn figures for about 200 images for the book Been through the editing [...]
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BlackBerry Development Fundamentals is available online
Safari Books Online published the first half of the book in rough-cuts format today. You can start reading the book here. //
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Reworking Chapter 11
No, not THAT chapter 11, chapter 11 of my book. I submitted the remaining chapters for review and got an email from one of the reviewers indicating that she had some problems with the chapter and wanted to talk about it. We chatted for a while and I agreed with her. I’d written about what [...]
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‘Finished’ the book last night…
Yep, it’s finished! Wow, a whole bunch of work that was. Now all I have to do is finish the review/edit phase and (woohoo!) it’s ready to publish. So, here’s where it stands: Chapters 1 through 9 have been through the edit and review process Chapters 10 and 11 are in the review process I [...]
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Book Update
Finished chapter 16 late last night. The chapter turned out pretty well, better than I expected. All I have left to do writing-wise is finish half of chapter 10. I should be able to complete that by Monday and the writing will be done. As soon as the writing is done, the editing/review process begins. [...]
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Saturday Morning
Well, I’m all alone this weekend and I’m (supposed to be) working on the book. I started chapter 14 Thursday night and my goal is to finish it today. I’ve decided that if I do this again, I’m going to put each chapter into its own folder – much easier when managing image files (screen [...]
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The book is available for pre-order on Amazon.com
I just discovered that BlackBerry Development Fundamentals was added to the Amazon catalog today. Yipee!! Here’s where you can get it: Amazon.com //
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Back to Writing
OK, I finally finished getting through the final reviewer’s comments. It was arduous – in one chapter, there were more comments than could fit on the page. As much as I hated putting aside the writing to spend an entire week processing a reviewer’s comments, their comments in general were helpful for the book. In [...]
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Wild Weekend
Phew, wild weekend. OK, so I got sick again- yuck. I was in Columbia, MD and tried to come home Thursday when I got really sick, but my boss (rightfully so) suggested I see how I felt Friday. Well, I felt HORRIBLE Friday and made beeline for home. It was a mess, I was sick [...]
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It’s Official
The publisher has decided on a title for the book! The book is going to be called BlackBerry Development Fundamentals (the working title was Fundamentals of BlackBerry Development, so this is close to what I was thinking would be a good title). The book should be up on amazon.com soon, look for the book by [...]
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