My first book, PHP for the World Wide Web: Visual QuickStart Guide, came out about 12 years ago now (it covered both PHP 3 and 4!). In the dozen years since then, I’ve written 22 more books (including revisions), with three different publishers. About 2-3 years ago, I first started thinking about self-publishing a book, and as of Fall 2012, am finally doing so with The Yii Book. I occasionally get asked, probably by people that also want to self-publish, about the tools I’m using for writing and self-publishing this book: technically speaking, how am I doing it? The introduction to the book does discuss this, but as not everyone has purchased the book, I thought I’d write up my process.
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In this edition…
- About This Newsletter
- What Were You Thinking? => Looking Both Ways
- On the Web => Columbia’s Break Writing Series
- On the Web => The Heisenbug and Others
- On the Web => Take Control of Scrivener 2
- On the Blog => Another “Modern JavaScript: Develop and Design” Update
- Q&A => Should One Enforce Business Ethics?
- What is Larry Thinking => The Dangers of Shared Hosting
- Larry Ullman’s Book News => “Modern JavaScript: Develop and Design”
I’m a pretty big fan of Scrivener, a writing application for Macs (there is a Windows version currently in beta). For about six months now I’ve been using Scrivener to write my newsletter, and a JavaScript book I’ve been working on for some time will be the first book I’ve written using it. There’s something about Scrivener that just works for me, first and foremost, that I’m able to keep everything about a project—the writing, references, notes, etc.—in one place. As with any good piece of software, though, I’ve got a nagging feeling in the back of my mind that I’m not using Scrivener to its fullest potential. And by that I mean I’m absolutely convinced that I could be using Scrivener better.
For this reason, I was quite happy to see the release of the book “Take Control of Scrivener 2“. I haven’t read it yet (ironically, I’m waiting to complete the book I’m currently working on first), but it’s high on my “to-read” list. Just scanning the 22-page sample that’s available, this looks like a good, fast resource. And at $10 (US) for the book, it’s a steal.
