Write a technical book

Well, it seems that this endeavor is still hard to achieve… I am still looking for a good theme about the book I’d like to write, but it’ll come some day.

Actually I updated my personal blog (http://ecomba.org) and removed all the old posts I had and now I am posting more things technical in nature there… :)

I got the contract with O’Reilly, no animal picked out yet. Testing and Debugging Ruby on Rails. So far i’m a little slow on the writting part, i’m making some progress through.

well, it’s been over 5 years now since my last book was published, and I’m getting back into the saddle. I’ve signed a contract on a book about Ruby for the Pragmatic programmers. I’ve started writing, and hope to be able to make some more detailed announcements around RubyConf.

With O’Reilly, as a co-author on the Asterisk Cookbook. I’m really excited, i’m sure though by the end i’ll hate myself for doing it.

Check out http://www.jaasbook.com/

This will be a copy of the comment I made on “write a book”, but it still applies:

It took up well over 6 intense months of research and writing almost to exclusion of everything else, but holding this book in my hands and seeing it on shelves is so great. While I know it’s not going to be a classic by any means, and if it sells a few thousand copies I’m very lucky—but it’s mine, and I did it.

Here’s more about my experience, on my blog.

PHYSICAL THERAPHY is the corner-stone to BLISH.

Not sure what it would be about but I probably should do this

I admit, I added this AFTER I got a book deal. go fig… I swear that it is on my list of goals. :-)

I was in the right place at the right time, knowing the right people and was asked to write Streaming Media Demystified. They say writing a book changes your life and that was true for me, only the changes were a mixed blessing. On the whole, it was worth doing and I developed a taste to write more, though I don’t have a current publishing deal for other things.