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.

Lest you think I found the one store in all of Asia that carried it, another book store in the same mall had 3 copies! If my book is stocked round the world, where are my royalties? 

Recently spotted in Manila, Philippines: two copies of my How To Do Everything With JavaScript book. Mabuhay! 

Where Am I?

I don't want to cause anyone to be worried, least of all my publisher, so I decided to stop by and say hi. So, HI.

Over the past couple of months I have been extremely busy (work, Christmas, January vacation), and work on the book came to a grinding halt.

Of course, it wouldn't have been so bad, except I could not get the October CTP of Visual Studio Team System properly installed. I must have installed it more than 20 times. I even reformatted the hard drives and reinstalled Windows a dozen or so times. It was hell. Oops, I mean "h-e-double-hockey-sticks". Sorry Mom.

The good news is that Microsoft has release another version of Team System, called the December CTP. I have contacted them, and a new DVD is on its way apparently. Hopefully, this install will be truly painless.

Also, I have been able to continue writing the second chapter. Last night, I wrote 4 more pages. I have given myself just over 1 week to complete this one. And 6 days per chapter thereafter.

So, watch out world. Another Team System book is coming down the tracks. It will kick all of the other Team System books in the... uh, nevermind.