I love days like today. We don’t get to do much real-time publishing in the book world. We don’t have much in the way of breaking news that meets the constraints of writing, editing, and publishing books. It takes me back to my days in radio news or in writing for and editing web sites. [...]

One of the cool things I get to do as an editor is see books change before my eyes as the writer sends me draft after draft. Every writer is different and I need to discover the way they let their story unfold.

Most good developers we know have interesting hobbies and outside interests that they attack with the same curiosity and passion that they bring to their work.