Hi there. My name is Scott Duffy, and welcome to my book writing log. I have documented the process of writing my last two books on this site, and have started my third. This book will be called Visual Studio Team System In Action, and should be available in 2005.

Well, it's been a couple of weeks since I posted. I had wanted to do this log every day.

As I mentioned in an earlier log, I got a new editor at Osborne. Well, this new editor would like my book to fit into a whole different series, aimed at a more beginner audience. So I went from writing a book "by developers for developers" to "... for dummies" in one half-hour phone call.

So I had to redo my outline, which isn't so bad. The publisher was kind enough to send up a couple of sample books for different topics in the same series. It's always easier when you have that. Basically, all the advanced content (some server-side JavaScript, Rhino, SpiderMonkey, etc.) got jettisoned. Too bad, that would have been fun for me.

So, in the next few days I will try to finish the entire outline and cut/paste a Chapter 1 together. I'll keep you updated.

Scott