js4php: thanks!
JS4PHP book is almost a wrap! It started as "well, I have this blog post, then I have these slides from this conference, how hard could it be to make it into a book form?" Pretty hard, turns out. I'm surprised every time. Takes a while, you get distracted by something shinier and so on... No such thing as "quick book project", for me, at least.
But it's almost ready to go, O'Reilly folks are optimistic it will be done in time for the Fluent conference in May (where I'm not speaking btw). The price on Amazon really makes me happy, I think $7.90 for a tech book is unheard of.
So anyway, just wanted to say thanks to people that helped with the book along the way.
Thanks
First and foremost, big thanks and gratitude to my second-time reviewers who helped me with "JavaScript Patterns" before, the Three Musketeers and d'Artagnan, the ever-so-amazing Andrea Giammarchi, Asen Bozhilov, Dmitry Soshnikov and Juriy "kangax" Zaytsev. As with the previous book they helped me tremendously with their deep knowledge and experience with JavaScript, their attention to detail and technical accuracy above all. You'll see little notes in the book following bold general statements, these notes often come from one of these guys saying: "hmm, this is not entirely correct and not always true, because...". I am forever in debt to these four ridiculously talented developers who also happen to be great and friendly people.
Many thanks to Chris Shiflett and Sean Coates. They made sure the PHP side of things make sense, but what's more, this whole book started as a post on their PHPAdvent (now WebAdvent.org) blog, followed by a talk at the ConFoo conference which Sean helps organize.
Next, thanks to the Facebook engineers that hang out on the JavaScript group. I posted an early draft there asking for comments. Three people even went through the whole thing and gave me invaluable feedback and further nitpicking, which is the best quality in a technical reviewer. Thanks to Alok Menghrajani, James Ide and Alex Himel.
Finally, thanks to Randy Owens who read the "early release" of the book and meticulously filed tens of errata reports.