> Can you shed any light on the expected release of your book? Is it 
> complete and being published or are you still ironing out some final 
> details, etc?
> 
> I've seen reference to March and April, so I was curious if 
> we're talking 
> early March or late?

The book is complete, I am not longer working on it. It is either in
typesetting or printing or somewhere in between by now I'm sure.

I don't have a specific date when it should be on shelves - Wrox has
indicated 'March'. This probably means late March by the time the book
is distributed to stores and so forth, but I've never figured out how to
predict that...

> I have a new project ramping up, and I'm curious (based upon above 
> information) whether I should forge ahead "on my own" or 
> "wait" for the 
> book to answer some key questions I still have about the architecture.

You'll have to decide on this yourself. The one thing to think about is
that book includes a lot of framework code, which may save you quite a
lot of time. You probably won't use all the code as-is, but there should
be substantial time savings in writing much of it.


And thank you for your kind comments :)  Sometimes it gets pretty
stressful to juggle everything, but most times I just have a lot of fun
- this stuff is all very cool and enjoyable. More so when it includes
discussions of ideas with other people.

Rocky

Rockford Lhotka
Author of 'Expert One-on-One VB.NET Business Objects' (Wrox Press)
rocky@l...    http://www.lhotka.net