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Time for another update on my DSL book's progress, since I've not
been writing anything else recently. I had my first round of technical review late in 2009 and have
been incorporating comments into the current drafts. Progress on
this has gone well, in large part because travel is light this time
of the year. I'm also integrating my book production process into
that of Pearson's. The next visible targets are a second round of technical review
and the launching of a roughcut. We're hoping to get these going in
the next couple of months. The roughcut will also allow people other
than official reviewers the chance to throw rocks at the text. After that the material will be gradually readied for
production. We're going to use a much more incremental process than
I've used before, which will be both good and interesting. My sense
at the moment that we'll see a physical book on bookshelves by the
final quarter of 2010. It's currently looking at around 500 pages
total in a DuplexBook split 150/350 The material currently on my web-site was
last updated in June. While I've done quite a lot of detailed work
on the book since, the broad structure is pretty similar, so the
website gives a reasonably good picture of the scope of content.
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