Dan Maharry | Music, Magic and Code
.NET Web Services

  1. Programming .NET XML Web Services is Complete

    All things must end, good or bad. This book for one. At 00:35 today, the final chapter draft was written, signed, sealed and delivered to MS. At bloody last. In the process, about 17,000 words were written in fourteen days, the laptop has almost totally packed up (the…
    on .NET Web Services Writing - Comments

  2. One week and one chapter left

    Seven days and counting. One chapter down and another to go. And as I don’t expect this last one to be seventy pages like this one, should go fine. Looks like hmobius.com will be moving to a new home soon. The Wrox breakdown has meant Blackwell Internet…
    on .NET Web Services - Comments

  3. Two Weeks Left

    Just two weeks left on this project. At once hurrah, and at the same time, lawks! The end of a book project is just the same as the end of any other project but with the added bonus that Steve Martin doesn’t come out and make glib remarks…
    on .NET Web Services - Comments

  4. New Writer. More Chapters

    Another long break between writing. The end is in sight but once again the goalposts have changed. Whether they’re for the better or worse is unclear. We now have a fourth writer but two more chapters. Whoever pays their sixty dollars will certainly get their money’s…
    on .NET Web Services - Comments

  5. Oh Such Progress...

    Ah such progress has been made as could not previously be credited. Two chapters now totally done, another out for review, two left to go and six weeks to do them. Have also spent two days in the studio mixing Chris Mills’s band, much to the consternation of…
    on .NET Web Services - Comments

  6. Deadline Come And Deadline Go

    You think that a chapter is going to be plain sailing, then you find a really handy little document to structure it against and all of a sudden it’s growing into a monster again. Now there are news stories to check, opinions to find and god knows what…
    on .NET Web Services - Comments

  7. Technology Won't Stand Still

    Am phased. Head now crammed with knowledge of the various XML APIs in .NET. This is good as it lets me write more, but bad as I can envisage at least six ways to do each task without the context of which is the way developers would take in a…
    on .NET Web Services - Comments

  8. So Much Happier

    Astounding what a difference a couple of days can make. Little things and the frankly ridiculous please little minds I guess. That and the presence of the first twenty pages of Chapter 5 which I couldn’t be more pleased with. So where to begin? I have had my…
    on .NET Web Services - Comments

  9. Starting the scramble to the end

    How quickly time flies. Christmas and new year have passed peacefully. Am now filled with resolution to actually work eight hours a day, finish book and get on with life. To which purpose, the final draft of chapter 1 is now complete and the handler chapter is in mid-flow. It…
    on .NET Web Services Writing - Comments

  10. Writers Block and A Dead Computer Revived

    SNOW!! Thought it was cold. The telltale signs of frozen ponds and steamy breath were spot on as usual then. Deadline looms again and writer’s block has hit. Just not sure how to start Chapter 5. Grr. “Once upon a time there was a happy interface named…
    on .NET Web Services - Comments

  11. 200 Pages In...

    Jeez. It’s been over a week since I lasted posted something here. So much going on, so little time. MS now have 200 pages of the manuscript to look at, the names of a bunch of people kind enough to take a look at the rough draft and…
    on Nothing in Particular .NET Web Services Writing - Comments

  12. May The Muse Take Me

    Have finally managed to re-set custard brain back in head after last week’s excesses. Wish book chapters had an attribute called [write_self] that I could attach to them. Trouble is those handlers would probably have a lot of overhead to actually get that running. I don’…
    on .NET Web Services Writing - Comments