Daily Archives: April 20, 2006

Reason # 4218 why I don’t think I’ll ever write a book

Just Rambling

From Chris Sells’ blog:

Then Mike read all 1300 pages, making sure that the copy editor didn’t change the meaning of anything.

With the PDFs in hand, we both read the ~1000 pages again (the move to Quark puts in the final styles), looking for things that got messed up during the move between software packages or new things that we notice.

Egad!

I have a feeling that Charles Petzold is doing the same about now, since on 4/5 he said he had one more month before his 1000 page WPF book is due.

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Code Camp 5 Waltham Mass – keep on submitting those abstracts

dotNET

Code Camp 5 is only in a few more weeks. The abstract list is looking a little light (although Thom could be just having a hard time deciding from to many?) But it’s not too late to submit your talks and certainly not too late to register.

Here are the details.

I’m still on the fence since I have to drive to Montreal on Monday for DevTeach where I give one talk a day for three days. Waltham is about 4 hours southeast of where I live and Montreal is about 3 hours north. So you can imagine my dilemma. 🙂

And before any of that, I am on my way to Milwaukee tomorrow for Deeper in .NET (speakin on ADO.NET 2.0 and SQL Server 2005 Integration) then home for a few days and then off again to speak in at HUNTUG (speaking on Advanced Data Access in ADO.NET 2.0) as an INETA speaker. Hopefully it will rain a few times while I’m gone on the peas and lettuce seeds in my garden.


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Joel Spolsky’s Chicken and Egg Theory and TabletPCs

Tablet

Joel Spolsky’s May 2000 article on the Chicken and the Egg Problem seems like a good place to look for solving the adoption problems of the Tablet PC (remember “Mobile PC” now) which is discussed endessly by Tablet PC developer (“make tablets easier to buy so people will buy our software!”) and the manufacturers (“make more software so people will want to buy our tablets!”). [read more …]

[A DevLife post]

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