I've a friend who has published many books. In the field of technical books, it is truly a labor of love. I don't think there are any rags-to-riches J.K.Rowling stories in the technical book genre.
I appreciate that you've detailed out your process and tools, and how it impacted your personal and family life. (What editor did you use? Vim? Emacs? BBEdit? UltraEdit? Atom? TextMate? Brackets? Sublime? Other...?)
Sorry that your hard drive took a dive. I've just had that same experience last month -- fortunately I was able to recover all but two files. Thanks to Alsoft's DiskWarrior... a wonder tool. I still get anxiety attacks from the recent harrowing experience.
Thank you for sharing this, and educating me on what authors mean by thanking their loved ones in the dedication.
I'm the head of IT at Statistics Iceland. I describe myself as a hacker turned manager so that other hackers don't have to (but I sure do miss hacking all the time).
I don't expect this to be a rags-to-riches story. I'm not in this for the money, I'm in this for the experience. For the love as you say.
The crash of my old laptop's hard drive was an great example of dogfooding. My book is all about understanding what the needs of data are and identifying quality attributes you want to be sure you deliver as expected. One of those attributes is recoverability -- being able to recover your data in the event of data loss. So being able to recover all my stuff through backups struck really close to home (and I was able to recover it using the exact same backup software I use in an example in the book).
I used two editors. I'm an Emacs user so all my code and extras were done in Emacs. However because of a built-in Asciidoc preview extension for Atom, I decided to write the book in Atom. So Atom for writing, Emacs for code.
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I've a friend who has published many books. In the field of technical books, it is truly a labor of love. I don't think there are any rags-to-riches J.K.Rowling stories in the technical book genre.
I appreciate that you've detailed out your process and tools, and how it impacted your personal and family life. (What editor did you use? Vim? Emacs? BBEdit? UltraEdit? Atom? TextMate? Brackets? Sublime? Other...?)
Sorry that your hard drive took a dive. I've just had that same experience last month -- fortunately I was able to recover all but two files. Thanks to Alsoft's DiskWarrior... a wonder tool. I still get anxiety attacks from the recent harrowing experience.
Thank you for sharing this, and educating me on what authors mean by thanking their loved ones in the dedication.
Thanks for the kind reply.
I don't expect this to be a rags-to-riches story. I'm not in this for the money, I'm in this for the experience. For the love as you say.
The crash of my old laptop's hard drive was an great example of dogfooding. My book is all about understanding what the needs of data are and identifying quality attributes you want to be sure you deliver as expected. One of those attributes is recoverability -- being able to recover your data in the event of data loss. So being able to recover all my stuff through backups struck really close to home (and I was able to recover it using the exact same backup software I use in an example in the book).
I used two editors. I'm an Emacs user so all my code and extras were done in Emacs. However because of a built-in Asciidoc preview extension for Atom, I decided to write the book in Atom. So Atom for writing, Emacs for code.