You´re right. For my last book (about Rational Rose - as co-author) I got not very much money. No car, a cheap bike :-) I should think about your suggestion: speaking on conference.
But actual I spend some time on improvement Ant (docs, testcases, maybe some additional features). Jan > -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht----- > Von: Steve Loughran [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Gesendet am: Mittwoch, 30. April 2003 07:54 > An: Ant Developers List > Betreff: Re: [PATCH] New resource found > > > If I try and discourage you from writing a book, will you > take me seriously? > > dont do it for the money > -So far I think my gross earnings have been in the $5000 > mark, the US gov > has taken their share and now the UK tax return paperwork is > trickling in. > > dont do it for the fun > -its fun for the first three to four months, but gets > progressively more > painful > > dont do it for the exciting social life opportunities > -every weekend, every evening from november 2001 till july 2003. > > if you do want to proceed, skip the thorough and rigorous > bits if you can > (like the applied ant section in our book). They are too > advanced for the > mass market, yet take more effort than the introductory > chapters. And get a > co-author -if either one of us had written our book alone it > would be a lot > weaker, and we'd have had a much harder time of writing it. > > If you want fame in the developer community, why not take up > speaking at > conferences. It's a lot easier and more fun. > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Tuesday, April 29, 2003 22:37 > Subject: AW: [PATCH] New resource found > > > It seems so. In the past two years I read a lot of articles > about Ant in > several > newspapers (iX - www.heise.de/iX, Java Magazin - > www.javamagazin.de, Java > Spektrum - www.javaspektrum.de, ...) > > I thought about writing a book for my own, and the publisher > liked that idea > to have a book about that topic > in German. "German users prefer a German book - if there is > one." they said. > But several other things to do ... (building a Forrest-based > website :-), > music, dance, ...) > Maybe I had a person who can correct that book (Stefan lives > near to me, I > the info on his Apache website is uptodate). > > > Jan Matčrne > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >
