quality or state of eminence.
Several thousand copies of the book got printed this week. Look for it at a store near you! (Also, we're having a release party in a few weeks at the Hacker Dojo in Mountain View. And by "party" I mean "excuse to drink heavily", which I really shouldn't even have to say anymore.) I guess that makes me a published author, which is, to be fair, one of the things I always planned to be someday.
Writing a technical book was the hardest thing I've done in my life. It took forever, and now it's done. We made a lot of mistakes and had to do a lot of revision, and it'll all be obsolete before it hits the shelves. But people who have read it seem to like it. ("Distractingly readable" is my favorite review.) In some ways I am very proud of it. In others I can't stand the thought of people reading it.
Disabling comments, just this once. The book is done, this post is done, and I have some insane superstition that if I avoid referring to it too directly, or talking about it too much, everything will turn out all right.
Writing a technical book was the hardest thing I've done in my life. It took forever, and now it's done. We made a lot of mistakes and had to do a lot of revision, and it'll all be obsolete before it hits the shelves. But people who have read it seem to like it. ("Distractingly readable" is my favorite review.) In some ways I am very proud of it. In others I can't stand the thought of people reading it.
Disabling comments, just this once. The book is done, this post is done, and I have some insane superstition that if I avoid referring to it too directly, or talking about it too much, everything will turn out all right.