I have a very difficult task ahead of me with the EF4 version of my book. The book is already over 800 pages and will only get longer with all of the new features in Entity Framework 4. However O’Reilly has tasked me to keep the book to 800 pages. Something has to give. I am very proud of the fact...

Jason Haley sent me this picture that he took on a beach on Cape Cod. Apparently Jason does not know the meaning of light beach reading! At least some part of me is enjoying summer beach weather! I love how the book cover and towel’s color’s sync up....

Well, it’s official. I’ve gone completely mad and just sent a signed contract back to O’Reilly for the rewrite of my book, Programming Entity Framework. With such big changes to Entity Framework, I could not let the current version of the book fade away, even though so much of it will...

No, it’s not a video producer now. :-) My publisher, O’Reilly Media , asked me to make a short video about my book. They pointed me to the Amazon page for another book which has a video as a model for me, Getting Started with Arduino . So I spent some time creating a similar video for my book, first...

I am very honored to be on a short list of books (three, in fact) recommended by David Chappell in his recent blog post “Good Books”. And I am in impressive company – with Dino Esposito & Andrea Saltarello and Jon Flanders. Here’s what David has to say about my book: Programming Entity Framework...

Oddly, the Tech Ed book store is tucked away among the breakout session rooms this year in Room 405. You have to go looking for it which is different than it being the first thing you see as you walk into the big exhibition hall. It's certainly worth the effort. Even if you don't purchase anything, there...

It felt like ages for the first pile of books to run out but I've been told by O'Reilly they are running low enough at the warehouse that they are going to print another batch of books in a week or so. Tech book sales are bad all over, so even though I was hoping this would happen much sooner (sure,...

I've really been wanting to share the acknowledgements from my book with a wider audience than just the readers of my book (or for that matter, just the readers who happen to even bother reading the Preface. ;)). So, here they are: Where do I begin? I have had great help and support from many people...

The book is already in print and I have a small box of them that I got last week. But still... there's something about Amazon's status that really denotes if the book is live or just memorex. So I was certainly happy to see this a short while ago: Of course Amazon isn't the only place to buy books. ;...

Although the digital version of my book, Programming Entity Framework, is now live on Safari , it seems that the full PDF download is still only that of the Rough Cut that has been online since this fall. If you download the PDF, please compare it to the chapters that are displayed online. The Rough...