prog | Book update

C&M@ORA worked all day yesterday putting the QC2 edits to bed. There are no further edits after this, friends. I had all of four changes to make, two of them to my acknowledgments. I hope all the name-spelling corrections take.

I should be able to hold an actual copy in my hands before this month is over. We're just barely missing MacWorld, but attendees are getting a discount flier, and there are... many backorders, already.

I am starting to have nervous dreams about how the book will be received. But I am not nervous in my waking life, as I was when P&X was emerging.

I've already started to take notes for the second edition. Things sure do move quickly, don't they. I would imagine that updating a book is a hell of a lot easier than creating it from scratch, but I should probably talk to someone who's worked on updating one of their own books. Hmm: I know just the person.

I have been following my nose with the "wiki-for-one" idea, and have an idea for a Cocoa application that will likely preempt Duck (the DocBook editor) as my first public Mac OS X app. The idea is far simpler, and should teach me a lot about text-hacking with Cocoa, which I can then confidently apply to the more sophisticated tasks that Duck will require.

Vapor, vapor.