Kyle Baley - The Coding Hillbilly

"We are stuck with technology when what we really want is just stuff that works" -- Douglas Adams

Brownfield Application Development in .NET

Suppose it would have been more appropriate to make today's announcement yesterday but c'est la vie, que sera sera, ou est la biblioteque and all that.

I'm writing a book with Donald Belcham on practices and techniques that can be used on brownfield applications. The official site is at www.manning.com/baley where you can order the first four chapters (which makes it sound like we've written more). Chapter 1 is free and as a preview of it, the last sentence is: "The one thing about brownfield development that will double your rate as a consultant, repair your failed side career as a bass guitarist, increase your "performance", and make you a babe and/or dude magnet is....".

Couple of trivia tidbits:

The guy on the cover was our third choice. First two were the Marquis de Sade and a hooded executioner, both of which we felt would have been more suitable for the topic. We settled on this one primarily because of the whiskey jug.
The TLA in the title is not an accident

There is a forum available for reporting errors, omissions, and criticism (constructive, reconstructive, destructive, instructive, or otherwise-structive).

So there it is, folks. The first Igloo/Hillbilly collaboration.

Kyle the Brownfielded

Published Apr 02 2008, 09:52 AM by Kyle Baley

Filed under: Brownfield

Comments

Bryan Reynolds said:

Brownfields, uhmmm can we change that name? LOL

# April 2, 2008 12:54 PM

Patrick said:

Ha, you tricked me. I actually went looking for that sentence :-P

# April 2, 2008 3:01 PM

Joe said:

how long until manning runs out of those awful canterbury tales pictures?

# April 2, 2008 4:15 PM

Kyle Baley said:

@Joe: Don't know. But that's exactly the kind of hard-hitting feedback we're looking for. Head on over to the forum and post the question there.

# April 2, 2008 4:22 PM

Bil Simser said:

Awesome to hear the progress! Going to grab the first few chapters now and pirate it on my warez sites now.

# April 2, 2008 11:05 PM

Ben Scheirman said:

Excellent! I knew you guys were writing for Manning press b/c I saw your names on the author portal. But I didn't know what the book was on.

I think the title should be ".NET Development by Canucks" -- much better

# April 3, 2008 10:18 AM

Kyle Baley said:

@Ben:

Yes, but then the secret will be out and people would realize that all it takes to be a stellar, irritatingly handsome developer is to become a Canadian. And the country isn't ready for that kind of influx.

# April 3, 2008 10:26 AM

Alvin Ashcraft said:

Looks like an excellent idea for a book. I'll have to go check out the initial chapters. Here's an idea for a subtitle to the book: "Who the f*@# wrote this code??!!?"

# April 4, 2008 10:19 AM

Sid said:

-Yes, but then the secret will be out and people would realize that all it takes to be a stellar, irritatingly -handsome developer is to become a Canadian. And the country isn't ready for that kind of influx.

Get a life, and a mirror!!

# April 9, 2008 12:33 PM