I targeted PDC as the date for completing the writing process for my book. I essentially hit that, leaving the Chapter on Transactions until after I returned, which was done within a week.

And then I targeted my vacation to Maui as the date for completion of the author review process. This is when I read through what I've written, incorporate feedback from editors and technical reviewers, and crank out the final text that I am happy with.

Well, that date is here and I haven't accomplished my goal. I did the Chapters that were roughest first, requiring quite a bit of wordsmithing. I have a few left, but it should be easy work. With that said, the weeks immediately following my return are going to be tough. I'd mentally tagged this vacation as a transition from book to post-book life, and it seems this won't be the case.

The good news is that I'm particularly satisfied with how the finished Chapters came out. The book will be highly complimentary to others on the market, but offers a great deal of unique coverage and new-to-2.0 topics.

Technical posts will return in a few weeks time. Bear with me. I've been having a difficult time finding material. For example,

• I thought I was clever when I figured out how to debug LCG methods in SOS, until I saw this. (!!)
• Using the 2.0 hosting APIs, I wrote a host that monitors lock acquisitions/releases, and warns you of potentially deadlocking patterns. (E.g. if it ever notices that one thread acquires A..B and another acquires B..A, although they might not have overlapped (yet).) But unfortunately, it required about 1,000 lines of code, and thus isn't a short blog post!

Happy hacking!