Screaming Penguin - Source Does Matter

It took us a lot longer than we anticipated, and the timing is not great (with GWT 1.5 just around the corner), but GWT in Practice is finally done-done, and it is with the printer. Should be available in paperback, as an actual book (rather than just eBook form, which it has been available as for some time) any day now.

Woot and stuff - we did it, Cooper and I wrote a book.

Fortunately even with GWT 1.5 imminent I think this book will still stand on it's own - it addresses a lot of concepts and patterns that go beyond the syntax of any particular version of GWT, so it will still be valuable even to those using 1.5.

Anyway, the real reason for this post is that a friend noticed something funny on the Amazon page, those who bought this book also bought . . . . wait for it . . . Blade Runner. ;)

I have been doing some Android stuff on the side since it first came out, and have participated in the forums and the like. Recently I was asked to contribute to another Manning book:
Unlocking Android - A Developer's Guide.

Details are still sketchy, but I thought I would pimp my own ride a bit by revealing this to the exclusive TotSP club. As soon as more details are available I will post them here.

GWT in Practice is finally well into the production phase. In production doesn't quite mean you can run to your local bookstore and get a copy, but it does mean the presses are rolling and final copy editing is being done as we go - in true word of the year style, W00T!

If you are a MEAP (Manning Early Access Program) subscriber you should have gotten a recent notice about an update, MEAP now finally has all of the latest updated versions of all chapters.

Dear Wikimedia,

As Charlie Collins and I are finalizing GWT in Practice, something occurred to me. As authors after a certain number of years, the copyright on our book will revert to us. It seems to me WikiBooks.org should have an "escrow" option. We submit our book to WikiBooks with a release date, that matches the date our copyright reverts to us. At that point, you can make the content freely available to the world.

Richard Preston's latest book, The Wild Trees is highly recommended. This is a strange obsession but I have always been fascinated by trees. As a kid, and as a grownup (using the term loosely, though I am almost 40), I have always been interested in biology, including botany, and have had a special fondness for trees - including, to this day, for climbing them. This book, along with being fascinating to read, has renewed my interest.

If you have $16 burning a hole in your pocket.

Sorry for the meaningless post, but I am just totally grooving on this.