You may or may not know that I am currently writing a book. If you didn’t, now you do. That’s a picture of the cover.
It’s a book about writing software for Windows 8 using HTML and JavaScript. The first few chapters are heavily based on a similar book which introduces building Windows 8 applications with C#. I’m really excited about it, and it should be available by the end of summer. I’m not done yet, and I have a fair amount more work to go, but it’s getting there.
A few weeks ago, the publisher, Apress, made an alpha version of the book available on their site. Buying the alpha version gives you access to draft versions of the chapters I am writing as I submit them, even before the editing process has been completed. Then I found out earlier this week that you can also pre-order the book on Amazon. I thought that was pretty cool, and it’s kind of a boost to the ego to see that, not to mention adding motivation to complete the process.
Imagine my surprise today, though, to come across this advertisement “in the wild” when checking the weekend weather.
