Jenny and I have some great news… Head First C# is done, through production, and currently being printed and shipped to bookstores! Amazon.com says that it’ll be in stock on November 27. Not only is that great for all of you Head First fans, but it also means that we’ll be able to start writing posts again.
A great time at NYC SPIN / PMINYC
We had a great time presenting at a NYC SPIN meeting on Tuesday — it was a joint gig with the PMINYC chapter, and we had a great crowd. We got a lot of great questions, which is always great. As promised, here’s a PDF of the slides. If anyone’s got any questions, feel free to contact us.
News from the trenches
Hey, we’re super-busy, so I’ll have to keep this short and sweet. But Jenny and I have some news, and we wanted to share it with you.
- We’re in the home stretch on Head First C#. We should be done with the manuscript in the next couple of weeks, which means that it should be in stores sometime in November (if we understand the production schedule correctly).
- We’re doing a talk tomorrow at a NYC SPIN / PMINYC meeting. It’s a variant of our “Why Projects Fail” talk — we’ve been getting a lot of great feedback about it, so it should be fun. Unfortunately, registration has closed for it — it’s sold out — but we’ll post slides afterwards.
- There was just a great article published on Inc. Magazine’s technology site that quotes us pretty extensively. We had a good talk with the author, Renee Oricchio, and she really got a good sense of what we were saying. It’s called “Getting In-house Software Shops Back on Track”.
Sorry about the quick update – we know we’re phoning it in, but we’ll be more chatty once the book’s out the door.