That??™s certainly true in my case. I??™ve been writing about Java and C# on the
Web and in newsgroups for a long time, but the leap from that to the printed page is
quite a large one. From my perspective, it??™s been an ???anti-Lemony Snicket?????”a series
of fortunate events.
I??™ve been reviewing books for various publishers, including Manning, for a while. In
April 2006 I asked whether it would be OK to write a blog entry on a book that looked
particularly promising: PowerShell in Action. In the course of the ensuing conversation,
I somehow managed to end up on the author team for Groovy in Action. I owe a huge
debt of thanks to my wife for even allowing me to agree to this??”which makes her
sound like a control freak until you understand we were expecting twins at the time,
and she had just gone into the hospital. It wasn??™t an ideal time to take on extra work,
but Holly was as supportive as she??™s always been.
Contributing to the Groovy book took a lot of hard work, but the writing bug
firmly hit me during the process. When talking with the principal author, Dierk
K?¶nig, I realized that I wanted to take on that role myself one day. So, when I heard
later that Manning was interested in publishing a book about C#3, I started writing a
proposal right away.
My relationship with C# itself goes further back. I started using it in 2002, and
have kept up with it ever since.
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