Is there something wrong with showing off work that you are proud of? If something I share here gets upvotes then apparently some people find it interesting.
Not trying to upset anyone here, I just want to share my work and share my story, that's all.
This is true but I'm willing to give him a pass for being open to questions and writing such an exhaustive post-mortem of the process...plus, the original blog post he linked to didn't do a good job of linking to the final product (as it was written before publication, I guess).
I didn't think that Show HN was limited to new things only, what happens when someone joins HN after they have produced something they think worthy of sharing? The great thing about HN is that readers can vote on whether they want to see stuff, i guess this was voted up enough for that reason.
His account is a year and half old and he has posted this book a lot of times already. I don't think he's crossed the line, and I'm sure many people are going to be very interested in reading the rest of his self-publishing story. And I hope that drives more sales for him, it's win-win.
I've had both beginners and very advanced programmers read it and both found things that they liked.
When I wrote it I had someone that knew a bit about C# in mind and wanted to explore C# and get a gasp on when to use async/dynamic/roslyn/plinq/etc.
Check out the forewords over at http://books.filipekberg.se and check the "Look inside" on Amazon to get a better understanding of what you will get from the book.
Great to the point book. Purchased this book around Christmas and read the first week of the year. I especially liked the Parallel chapter. One thing fekberg, have you tried purchasing the book via create space? I would have given up on step 4 of 16 if the book was on sale.
Yeah I've purchased my book on CreateSpace a couple of times, I didn't find it much different from other e-stores, maybe it's because I had previously created an account?
As far as I know you go through: Buy -> Shipping address -> Shipping method -> Payment -> Receipt. Was it more steps for you than that?
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I'm not sure he really should have titled this Show HN as he already has shown it to us. Very recently.
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Not trying to upset anyone here, I just want to share my work and share my story, that's all.
The reason that I posted this was that I wanted to show the end result which wasn't linked/mentioned in the story.
Not aiming to break any rules or so here, just wanted to show off the result (fast forward from the blog series)
This isn't a Show HN.
But it's not really a Show HN.
Self-publishing is the best thing that I've ever done, it's fun and I learnt very much about a lot of different things.
If you have any questions that I haven't answered in my blog series (more parts are coming soon), just let me know and I'll try to answer them.
When I wrote it I had someone that knew a bit about C# in mind and wanted to explore C# and get a gasp on when to use async/dynamic/roslyn/plinq/etc.
Check out the forewords over at http://books.filipekberg.se and check the "Look inside" on Amazon to get a better understanding of what you will get from the book.
Yeah I've purchased my book on CreateSpace a couple of times, I didn't find it much different from other e-stores, maybe it's because I had previously created an account?
As far as I know you go through: Buy -> Shipping address -> Shipping method -> Payment -> Receipt. Was it more steps for you than that?