Hi Tony et al There's a simple reason why there aren't new books on this - it's very hard work!
Creating any meaningful text on a system that is as wide and flexible as U2 takes many months of effort. In the three books I've written I've only scratched the surface. And given the size of the market, I can promise you - it's for love, not money ... <grin>. In my case it was partly a response to the fact that I can't offer U2 training in the UK any more - the exclusive agreements over here have blocked off that market - and because I've always enjoyed writing anyway. It's just not a commercial prospect. Incidentally, I *have* started revising my books, starting with the (free) guide to writing your first application, to cover UniData (they are all UniVerse based currently), to include some of the newer features and where to get stuff, and the newest Visual Studio for the client side stuff - now that Universe 11.1 is finally out. No doubt that will take a few months though. As to the books vs blogs question - they both have a place and they both offer different things. I have a shelf full of Microsoft books to build my understanding, but I still use CodeProject for specifics and even MSDN when all else fails. And Rocket *have* started to step up to the plate on this. The new developer zone looks like it is a good springboard. Brian -----Original Message----- From: u2-users-boun...@listserver.u2ug.org [mailto:u2-users-boun...@listserver.u2ug.org] On Behalf Of Tony Gravagno Sent: 25 March 2011 20:14 To: u2-users@listserver.u2ug.org Subject: Re: [U2] Does anyone have an MV BASIC cheatsheet? > From: George Gallen > Of course there is also the financial gain from the > status of being a published author. George, toss that one by anyone in this market who has published a book, and see how far it flies. Jon? Matt? Steve? Harvey? Malcolm? (Most people here are saying "who?") These days the blog is the new book (many of us blog books-worth of material each year) but that doesn't seem to be the marketing venue that most people would think either. Brian could comment on all of that too. _______________________________________________ U2-Users mailing list U2-Users@listserver.u2ug.org http://listserver.u2ug.org/mailman/listinfo/u2-users
