WPF Control Development Unleashed - On Safari Rough Cuts

[Pavan Podila]

Hello Disciples,
      The title says it all :-) http://techbus.safaribooksonline.com/9780768695519

Cheers,


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[Karl Shifflett]

Cool.  I don’t have an account but I looked at the TOC and some abstracts.  Looks very good so far.

 

Cheers,

 

kdawg

[Pavan Podila]

Thanks Karl !

[Corrado Cavalli]

From a quick look at the preview is looks very interesting, congrats Pavan!

 

Corrado

[Marlon Grech]

awsome mate awsome

Congrats

Regards
Marlon
WPF Blog - http://marlongrech.wordpress.com/
Microsoft MVP for Client App

[Laurent Bugnion [MVP]]

Looking great Pavan. When is it due to be published?

 

Cheers,

Laurent

 

From: wpf-di...@googlegroups.com [mailto:wpf-di...@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Pavan Podila
Sent: Saturday, July 04, 2009 2:41 AM
To: wpf-di...@googlegroups.com
Subject: [WPF Disciples] WPF Control Development Unleashed - On Safari Rough Cuts

 

Hello Disciples,

[Jeremiah Morrill]

Let us know when we can pre-order! (Dunno if the link was invisible to me)

From what I heard, authoring a book is a grueling, stressful, bloody task, so mad props!

I don't quite have the grammar skillz so my book would most likely be similar to this ;).

-Jer

[Marlon Grech]

writing a book is a suicide!!!!

formatting alone is a nightmare with these editors!!!!!

Regards
Marlon
WPF Blog - http://marlongrech.wordpress.com/
Microsoft MVP for Client App

[Sacha Barber]

Just to follow on from what Jer said, our book is actually of now, due to publisher being total morons, and wanting a complete book in 2 1/2 months, where we were using the Entire .NET3.5 and possibly 4.0 stack, and writing complex PRISM MVVM frameworks, so as you can imagine we did not see it their way. 6-8 months perhaps, sod them.

Just sticking to articles/blogs I am, twas a crazed plan anywayz

Sad but true

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[Pavan Podila]

Thanks a lot guys, I can't tell you how relieved I am to see this book on its final lap. Book writing is a mixed bag of things and a totally different experience. I will not bore you with my experience, but leave that for a few drinks later ;)

Laurent, the tentative date is Sep 17th but I think it might come out sooner :)

Jer, you can preorder on Amazon: http://www.amazon.com/WPF-Control-Development-Unleashed-Experiences/dp/0672330334. BTW, the link you sent sounds like a start I could have used, taking you to 2048 and then bringing back to 2009, into the world of WPF Control Development ;)

[Josh Smith]

I had a similar experience.  They seem to forget that you would be writing the book when you aren't working your real job.  For me, it wasn't worth the extra stress.

Josh

[Josh Smith]

I can't wait to read this one!!

[Laurent Bugnion [MVP]]

I heard other such horror stories. Honestly there are a lot of amateurs in the publishing business. I loved the team at Sams because they are real professionals, and they understand what it means to write a book. It took me almost a year from start to finish. Anything else is really unreasonable.

 

Cheers,

Laurent

[Shawn Wildermuth]

If you still want to do a book, e-mail me directly and I can put you in touch with a couple of editors that I really like that might be interested…

 

Thanks,

 

Shawn Wildermuth

http://wildermuth.com

https://agilitrain.com

Microsoft MVP (C#), MCSD.NET, Author and Speaker

 

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[Pavan Podila]

Completely agree with Laurent. The SAMS team was amazingly understanding and in fact gave us lot of freedom to decide our timelines. My co-author and I took a little over a year to finish the book.

[Sacha Barber]

The do sound ace, maybe we just went with wrong publisher, still am off the idea for now, maybe some other time, hell I have no time I've actually got to read a book by some dude called "Pavan" or something. Sounds like a good read, its about vampire converters and wpf wolves or something.

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[Pavan Podila]

LOL!

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[Marlon Grech]

hahaha lol

Sacha you are the best!!!!!

Regards
Marlon
WPF Blog - http://marlongrech.wordpress.com/
Microsoft MVP for Client App

[Mark Smith]

Congratulations -- it's an achievement to get a book done!  Can't wait to read it..

mark

[Pavan Podila]

Thanks Mark !

On Jul 6, 9:47 am, Mark Smith <mark.jul...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Congratulations -- it's an achievement to get a book done!  Can't wait  
> to read it..
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> mark
>
> On Jul 3, 2009, at 7:40 PM, Pavan Podila wrote:
>
> > Hello Disciples,

> >       The title says it all :-)http://techbus.safaribooksonline.com/9780768695519

[Peter O'Hanlon]

Looks good - I'll be preordering it.

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Peter O'Hanlon

[Pavan Podila]

Thanks Pete!