Comment Re:So if you've got a book you want to write (Score 1) 271
Whichever you prefer. I approached a couple, but Manning "bit" quicker than anyone else so I just pursued it with them.
Comment Re:Isn't this the age of e-books? (Score 1) 271
Working with a publisher, and in particular a copy editor (although they can be hired professionally) can greatly improve the quality of a book.
Comment Working with Manning (Score 1) 271
I wrote IronPython in Action for Manning Publications. Working with a publisher greatly improved the book, but it is still a long and arduous process. I wrote up my experience with Manning (good points and bad points):
http://www.voidspace.org.uk/python/articles/technical-writing.shtml
Comment Re:Spreadsheets Cause Brain Damage (Score 1) 168
"the fact that logic and presentation are tightly coupled is the *strength* of spreadsheets" - except when you want to add code, when you have to jump into a completely different interface.
With Resolver the view is just as tightly coupled, *plus* the view includes a code editor (and the code runs as a normal part of the spreadsheet execution rather than living in a separate world).
With Resolver the view is just as tightly coupled, *plus* the view includes a code editor (and the code runs as a normal part of the spreadsheet execution rather than living in a separate world).
Submission + - John Udell on the Geeks' Spreadsheet (amoral.org)
rcs1000 writes: "John Udell has a interesting article on a new type of spreadsheet: one targetted specifically at geeks. The skinny — if I get this right — is that any spreadsheet is actually a computer program, only in Udell's piece this is explicit (and IronPython rather than VBA), rather than implicit. There are some other cool things it does — allowing cells to contain objects, and allowing spreadsheets to back-end websites. The screencast is particularly fun."
