{"id":2013,"date":"2006-10-09T21:45:16","date_gmt":"2006-10-10T03:45:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/book\/i-wrote-a-book\/"},"modified":"2006-10-09T21:45:16","modified_gmt":"2006-10-10T03:45:16","slug":"i-wrote-a-book","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/book\/i-wrote-a-book\/","title":{"rendered":"I Wrote A Book!"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote class=\"mine\"><p>I have just turned in the last chapters of my book on Windows Vista. I&#8217;m not elated or even relieved, but I am reasonably happy and proud of the intense concentration I put into this project over the past two months, which seem to have flown by. I wrote over 100,000 words and took over 200 screen captures. In the process, I installed at least 4 Builds (versions) more than a dozen times.<\/p>\n<p>Which is not to say I&#8217;m done, just at the end of a big phase. Now, I begin &#8220;author review,&#8221; in which I&#8217;ll graciously accept the comments of two or more editors. Of course, I&#8217;ve already worked with the best editor &#8212; Mer has read every word and contributed considerably to the book.<\/p>\n<p>In this final phase, I also have to compare my text and figures to the latest build, Release Candidate 2. I want to be as current as possible, though the final version &#8212; the RTM (Release to Manufacture) &#8212; comes right around my deadline. <\/p>\n<p>Three weeks from now, I can return to the blogosphere and ignoring the clock and calendar a little bit. <span class=\"sig\">mjh<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have just turned in the last chapters of my book on Windows Vista. I&#8217;m not elated or even relieved, but I am reasonably happy and proud of the intense concentration I put into this project over the past two months, which seem to have flown by. I wrote over 100,000 words and took over &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/book\/i-wrote-a-book\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">I Wrote A Book!<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2013","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-book"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2013","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2013"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2013\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2013"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2013"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2013"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}