Either MS needs to slow down (which they might after releasing 4.0 (mere speculation)) or book publishers need to shorten their cycles. Those 3-4 months from submissions is just too much. Add that to all of the work required from the author and is really hard to keep up the pace :(
The good part is that we're getting a lot of good and valuable information from Blogs and other sites. However I still think technical books are a great resource, specially for people getting to a technology for the first time. Usually on blogs you don't get from A to Z. On Mon, Nov 23, 2009 at 9:21 PM, Chris Anderson <[email protected]>wrote: > As a book author for Silverlight, believe me it's hard! Unfortunately I > don't have inside information either - so I'm left guessing as much as > everyone else with when and what is coming. Originally my book > (Professional Business Applications in Silverlight for Apress) was due in > December (for Silverlight 3), then it needed to be done by September to be > viable. It takes several months (about 3-4) from submission to be on > shelves, making it nearly impossible with these rapid release cycles. As a > developer I love the constant feature additions and rapid growth of > Silverlight, but as an author it's nigh on impossible. > > PS. I just looked at the top book from the picture you provided, and the > top one is mine. But it's not coming in that form (surprised it's still > there) - there will be a Silverlight 4 version though (if I can write it in > time before Silverlight 5 is announced!). Unfortunately about 15,000 words > (plus lots of code) of what I had written has now become redundant with the > Silverlight 4 features announced. I have to admit that really stings - all > that work to be scrapped. > > Chris Anderson > > > 2009/11/23 Craig Dunn <[email protected]> > > >>I can't help but feel overwealmed with their release cycles. :) >> >> Imagine if you were a book author! SL4 could be out before these SL3 books >> reach the shelves... >> >> http://twitpic.com/q21be >> >> cd >> >> On Mon, Nov 23, 2009 at 5:24 PM, Stephen Price >> <[email protected]>wrote: >> >>> Is anyone playing with the Silverlight 4.0 beta? >>> How come everyone here is so quiet about it? I'm on semi holidays in >>> Canberra and missed the announcement. Thought I would have seen some >>> discussion on it here tho. >>> >>> Shame on you. :p >>> >>> In particular, this new feature has caught my eye... "The .NET Common >>> Runtime (CLR) now enables the same compiled code to be run on the desktop >>> and Silverlight without change." >>> >>> If I read that correctly then I should be able to do normal unit testing >>> (ie using normal test runners such as Resharper, nUnit, TestDriven.net etc). >>> Can anyone confirm that? >>> >>> Some pretty cool new features. I can't help but feel overwealmed with >>> their release cycles. :) >>> >>> cheers, >>> Stephen >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> ozsilverlight mailing list >>> [email protected] >>> http://prdlxvm0001.codify.net/mailman/listinfo/ozsilverlight >>> >>> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> ozsilverlight mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://prdlxvm0001.codify.net/mailman/listinfo/ozsilverlight >> >> > > _______________________________________________ > ozsilverlight mailing list > [email protected] > http://prdlxvm0001.codify.net/mailman/listinfo/ozsilverlight > > -- Miguel A. Madero Reyes www.miguelmadero.com (blog) [email protected]
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