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.

Good news, the book is now listed for sale on amazon.com. Please go and purchase many copies. They make good birthday gifts for kids under 12.

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0072228873

A lot has happened in the last eight days since I've posted to this blog. Chapter 10 (Frames) was eventually submitted to the publisher at 4,600 words. All went well with that chapter. I hope I was able to keep frames interesting. I spent many years developing JavaScript-intense web sites that contained frames, so I wanted to spend more time on the topic than many other books do.

I submitted Chapter 11 (DOM) yesterday at 3,600 words. It's more than the usual "this is an object and this is its properties" introduction, but not quite the definitive text on the topic. Many people don't know what can be done with the DOM (level 1 and 2) these days, so I hope the chapter is informative to existing web developers as well as newbies. I submitted the chapter at 2:00 AM this morning, and if you can believe it the tech reviewer sent me back an edited copy by 3:30 AM. Geez. I hope this guy lives in on the West coast, cause if he's in the Eastern time zone he's works some crazy hours.

Chapter 12 (JavaScript Animation) is underway. If I had more time, this could be a fun chapter to write. As it is, I want to be finished it by Friday night. That means sticking to the basics of web animation and not getting into the more difficult stuff.

That will leave Chapter 13 for next weekend. Chapter 14 for next week, and Chapter 15 for the weekend that follows. When do you think I should tell the Project Editor that I'll be at least 5 days late???

Scott