4th & 10th Chapter of C# 2008 Alpha Program Book

4th & 10th Chapter of C# 2008 Alpha Program Book

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Vinodonly posted on Tuesday, November 18, 2008

Dear Rocky,

 

I purchased this book through alpha program and downloaded avl chapters. In avl chapters, all avl chapters are in sequence except 4th and 10th chapter are missing. Is this numbering problem or these will be avl later.

 

Pls advs.

RockfordLhotka replied on Tuesday, November 18, 2008

I don't know about 4, but 10 has had some editorial challenges, though I think they've all be resolved at this point.

Vinodonly replied on Wednesday, November 19, 2008

FYI, I just chkd it again but situation is same. Same chapters are avl and last updated date for chapters is showing Oct 13 / Oct 15

cash_pat replied on Wednesday, November 19, 2008

Just bought the book. 4 and 10 are definitely missing


Jack replied on Wednesday, November 19, 2008

Not to mention having to open 17 individual files and entering my email address everytime :-).  I was surprised there wasn't a single contiguous file or is that to help discourage *sharing*?

I'm assuming Rocky you don't want to hear about errors/typos either at this point?  I got the sense there is a newer revision pending.

thanks

jack

RockfordLhotka replied on Wednesday, November 19, 2008

Unfortunately I think that all the chapters are now finalized, so there’s probably no sense reporting errors/typos.

 

Of course what you are seeing is at least 2 steps behind in the editing process. Yesterday someone sent me an email with an error in a chapter, and I couldn’t even find a version that had the issue (but I only have the last couple revisions on hand).

 

This book is on a fast-track from a publishing perspective, in an attempt to compress the process so the book is out by the end of this year. That makes the concept of getting feedback from the alpha program not so realistic for this particular book. I’m sure feedback is more useful with books where a more stately pace is maintained for the editing process.

 

(I’m also sure that authors maintain more sanity with a more stately pace… I’ve been getting edit requests where the requirement is “drop everything and answer this question to stay on schedule”, which is pretty stressful :) )

 

Rocky

Jack replied on Wednesday, November 19, 2008

Well so far the alpha is still very well written and informative and the mistakes I saw were blatently obvious cut/paste so it didn't take anything away from it. 

You are an extremely gifted individual and I'm thankful for falling into this CSLA framework.

thank

jack

RockfordLhotka replied on Wednesday, November 19, 2008

I am sorry, I didn’t mean to imply that Chapter 10 would be instantly available. I don’t know how the publishing process works on Apress’s end of things, and I’m sure that takes time. I’m also sure that getting the book to the printing stage is a higher priority than refreshing the alpha PDF content on the web site, because they have to meet printing deadlines to get into the printing/shipping cycle of their printing vendor.

 

I was just saying that over this past weekend we (hopefully) finalized Chapter 10.

 

Rocky

 

 

From: Vinodonly [mailto:cslanet@lhotka.net]
Sent: Wednesday, November 19, 2008 7:09 AM
To: rocky@lhotka.net
Subject: Re: [CSLA .NET] 4th & 10th Chapter of C# 2008 Alpha Program Book

 

FYI, I just chkd it again but situation is same. Same chapters are avl and last updated date for chapters is showing Oct 13 / Oct 15

RockfordLhotka replied on Thursday, November 20, 2008

Apress just emailed me to say that all alpha chapters should be online now.

Vinodonly replied on Thursday, November 20, 2008

Thanks for updating. Yes, now both chapters are avl.

 

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