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PragProWriMo - Write a Technical Book this November
- gmcerveny 15y agoContemplating an iOS / sound book for this. Anyone else participating this year?
- DanBC 15y agoI'm not participating, but I've been working on some how to's for some minor linuxes. I need a good style guide, and recommendations for technical writing books.
- bphogan 15y agoI recommend these: On Writing Well - http://www.amazon.com/Writing-Well-30th-Anniversary-Nonfiction/dp/0060891548/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1319661186&sr=8-1 http://www.amazon.com/Writing-Well-30th-Anniversary-Nonficti... The Artful Edit - http://www.amazon.com/Artful-Edit-Practice-Editing-Yourself/dp/0393332179/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1319661242&sr=8-1 http://www.amazon.com/Artful-Edit-Practice-Editing-Yourself/...
- stevelosh 15y agoI hadn't heard of this until now, but the last chunk of work I have left for http://learnvimscriptthehardway.stevelosh.com/ http://learnvimscriptthehardway.stevelosh.com/ seems like it will just happen to fall in November, so I guess I will be!
- softbuilder 15y agoSomeone forgot to set up their twitter account. @pragprowrimo doesn't exist yet.
- stevelosh 15y agoHuh? https://twitter.com/#!/pragprowrimo https://twitter.com/#!/pragprowrimo exists, and has tweets over a year old.
- softbuilder 15y agoYou're right! That is bizarre. I copied and pasted from the article and checked twice before commenting. It 404'd. I did the same thing just now and it worked fine, as you say.
- rumblestrut 15y agoI did it two years ago. When I was done, I shopped it around. No one was interested. Even still, it was totally worth it.
- mindcrime 15y agoInteresting. I'm tempted to take a stab at turning my Integrating Grails With The Real World talk into a book for PragProWriMo. Not sure if I can justify taking time away from working on my startup project though. sigh Too much to do, never enough time...
- bphogan 15y agoI'll be participating in the forums, encouraging folks, and giving writing tips throughout the month. Would love to see some of you awesome HN folks join in the fun.
- FuzzyDunlop 15y agoThink I'll give this a go. Already had some stuff in mind about basic PHP security for beginners, so I may as well see how it goes on paper.
- egypturnash 15y agoHmm. I just started playing with a comic about "Miss Fussyspider", who likes to organize and sort things; a friend suggested that it could be a tutorial on different sort algos... and then I see this. HMMM. Wonder if they'd want a comic-book introduction to sorts. I always see the PragProg line as being a bit more hardcore than that but you NEVER KNOW.