Index review
Posted on August 18, 2021
| Loren Kohnfelder
The penultimate review for the book is the index, and I just hit Save on it. Creating the index was a surprisingly interesting as well as challenging part of writing the book, and I’m very glad to have tackled it myself.
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Sales categories adjustment
Posted on July 15, 2021
| Loren Kohnfelder
When the book appeared in the Amazon marketplace I set up an author’s page and claimed the title. I expected some sort of verification, but they just granted me the book I asked for.
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Publication date set
Posted on July 5, 2021
| Loren Kohnfelder
This Monday morning I started the week by discovering that a publication date is set for the book: October 19, 2021.
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Cover design
Posted on May 20, 2021
| Loren Kohnfelder
Once the title was chosen by the publisher (in consultation, of course) the cover design becomes the next topic of discussion.
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Layout design for Appendix A
Posted on May 10, 2021
| Loren Kohnfelder
Writing about software design is difficult because there is little to no standard methodology or practice – everyone does it differently.
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Copy edit of a chapter
Posted on April 3, 2021
| Loren Kohnfelder
Copy edit is the last chance to make significant changes to the text. Most chapters involve plenty of sentence rewriting and a few moves of a paragraph, but much of the delta is punctuation and word choice.
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Artwork ready for review
Posted on March 16, 2021
| Loren Kohnfelder
The artwork came back as a PDF with one drawing per page, labeled by filename. The first batch was pretty good, considering that Richard (I learned the artist’s name) must have had no idea what the symbols meant.
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