its time to reveal some details on my book project. Now that the contract is settled, I think I can talk about some details on this project.
I was contacted by a german publisher some months ago and asked if I would like to write a book about symfony. I wrote back that I do know symfony quite okay, but I think it is not worth writing a clone of two great books available already (two more coming soon). I replied that I would like to write about some fancy Java Web stuff, but got a response that they would like to have a Spring, or Hibernate book, or something about jQuery.
Again, nice topics but nothing where I think I could make a difference.
We lost contact and I started thinking. I quickly got fond of the idea to write a book about the Eclipse Rich Ajax Platform. I have some deep inside knowledge, and also recently played around with it. Admittedly I am not the best RAP expert in the world, but I do know what it is good for and how to apply it in really large scale projects. I collected some materials and made an initial draft of the contents.
After talking to a few people I decided to pitch the idea to Apress. They were excited about the idea, well at least they say so. We agreed on writing a short introduction book on RAP and the technology and such stuff. Since this week now I am holding a book publication contract for an Apress first press book. Yeah :-)
Half of the book is written in a good draft by now and my energy is slightly decreasing, so Ill take a break now, fly to San Jose this weekend and get new ideas at the AJAX World Conference.

In case you have questions you would like to see answered in a book about Eclipse RAP. Just shoot :-)