Chris Sells has decided to reveal the technique I used last year to write the foreword for both his and ChrisAn's books.
If you have both books, read the forewords I wrote.
Note that there is significant reuse between the two forewords (they'd be identical had it not been for an overaggressive editor at AW who added an extra surname).
As is the case with code, it took way more work to craft a general solution to the “foreword for a WPF book written by a guy named 'Chris'” problem than it would have been to simply write two one-off solutions.
And as is often the case with this kind of factoring, the likelihood that I'll be able to reuse it a third time is extremely low.
However, if you are an author of a WPF book and your name is Chris, feel free to send me your manuscript and I'll consider it.
Posted
Jan 27 2008, 05:31 PM
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don-box