Friday, August 31, 2007

Almost there, mom...

Yet another month has gone and my perfect plan to blog about something cool in EMF every week didn't work as intended. If you check the date of my last post, you will see that it was written right on the last day of July. And here I am, last day of August...

Being honest, I can't even say that I've been busy doing development work. Other than a few bug fixes and time assisting users, most of my (and Dave's) days have been spent on the second edition of the EMF book. The good news is that we are really almost done writing the manuscript. And the material is looking great! We took the time to go deep on several topics and also to add much more content than what is available in the first edition. Just to give you an idea, the second edition will be at least as thick as the first one and it doesn't have the not so popular "javadoc" chapter.

Btw, if you were intrigued by the title... I was naive enough to tell my family and close friends about the book when we've started working on it, a looooong time ago. So now I am often hearing the inevitable question "when will it be available" regardless of where I am: at work, conferences, and, unfortunately ;-), BBQs, bars, ...