Ah the Sams books. I once thought that writing tech books was going to be a career (having contributed a single chapter to “Microsoft SQL Server Programming Unl

Ah the Sams books. I once thought that writing tech books was going to be a career (having contributed a single chapter to “Microsoft SQL Server Programming Unleashed” by Papa, Shepker et al. I was one of the Al’s). I think the “in 24 hours” thing was more a case of “I’m going to tell you everything I know about XYZ in 24 hours”. Still, I have so many fond memories from the late 80s and 90s spending countless lunchtimes at McGills or the Technical Bookshop in Melbourne (now since long gone), flipping through tech magazines and wondering which of the many weighty tech tomes I’d spend my precious hard-earned on.