Book is almost out
The JavaScript Patterns book is to be sent to the printer next week and will be available as expected (and mentioned on Amazon) on or before Sept 28. Yey!
Dunno who said: writers don't like to write, they like to have written. Exactly how I feel today.
And let me share a quote from my favorite Kurt Vonnegut along the same lines. The book is Bluebeard.
She asked me what had been the most pleasing thing about my professional life when I was a full-time painter -- having my first one-man show, getting a lot of money for a picture, the comradeship with fellow painters, being praised by a critic, or what?
"We used to talk a lot about that in the old days," I said. "There was general agreement that if we were put into individual capsules with our art materials, and fired out into different parts of outer space, we would still have everything we loved about painting, which was the opportunity to lay on paint."
I asked her in turn what the high point was for writers -- getting great reviews, or a terrific advance, or selling a book to the movies, or seeing somebody reading your book, or what? She said that she, too, could find happiness in a capsule in outer space, provided that she had a finished, proofread manuscript by her in there, along with somebody from her publishing house.
"I don't understand," I said.
"The orgastic moment for me is when I hand a manuscript to my publisher and say, 'Here! I'm all through with it. I never want to see it again,' " she said.
So - whew!
Expect a more detailed post about the book (and the wonderful team of JS guru tech reviewers!), after all I have to start promoting it, don't I?
Tags: book
September 4th, 2010 at 4:33 pm
Congrats for your efforts. The book is exciting and every javascript developer must be read it. It cover important parts from the language by many examples and understandable sentences, which is very important for technical books. The book is great addition to ECMA-262 specification.
Good luck!
September 4th, 2010 at 4:52 pm
I guess congratulations are in order, well done – tweet up when it’s out on amazon uk
I will just add I’ve been following your work since smush.it and it gives me great pleasure seeing such a prolific and successful compatriot mixing it up with the the likes of Doug Crockford, Steve Souders and the incredible Yahoo team, putting back so much into the javascript and webdev communities. All I can say is, keep up the amazing work.
September 8th, 2010 at 9:47 am
What about kindle edition?
September 8th, 2010 at 5:20 pm
Kindle edition should be available even sooner, meaning any day now
October 28th, 2010 at 10:24 am
i’ve bought the kindle edition earlyer this week and i like it very much!
January 26th, 2011 at 9:22 pm
Great book, thanks for writing it. I’m up to the Functions chapter now and noticed a typo. On page 79:
// invoke a function
sayHi(); // “Hello” <<== should say "Hello!" with the exclamation mark
January 28th, 2011 at 6:22 pm
Great book, thanks for writing it. I’m up to the Functions chapter now and noticed a typo. On page 79:
apply() takes two parameters: the first one is an object to bind to this inside of the function, the second is an array or arguments, which then becomes the array-like arguments object available inside the function.
should be:
apply() takes two parameters: the first one is an object to bind to this inside of the function, the second is an array _________of_________ arguments, which then becomes the array-like arguments object available inside the function.
February 6th, 2011 at 12:03 am
Great book, thanks for writing it. I noticed a typo. On page 115:
But it’s important to keep the end goal in mind – we want to reuse cod;.
should be:
But it’s important to keep the end goal in mind – we want to reuse code.
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