This week I am pretty geeked that I heard from my editor at O”Reilly that my (almost written) book about programming the Google AppEngine was approved. I want to have the first draft all done by January 6 – before classes start.
I already have about 2/3 of the book done in first draft from materials I developed last semester teaching SI539. So now I am in a dead-sprint over the holidays to crank out about 75-80 more pages to send the book into first-draft review in early January.
You can look at the book at http://www.appenginelearn.com/chapters/toc.htm to see what has been written so far.
So this is great news but I will be chained to my keyboard for much of the holiday. I will be much happier when the first draft is truly done.