Sorry for the delay in announcing it - I was waiting for the book to physically arrive in my hands, which it hasn't done so, yet. (I have a copy pre-ordered with Amazon and since that's the way most people will be receiving the acquiring the book, I imagine, I wanted to make sure it was actually, physically, being distributed before I announced it.)

I plan on writing up a full blog post once I have my copy of the book.

John: Sorry, I just fat-fingered a down vote that was supposed to be an up vote. Thanks for checking in. I'm looking forward to the book myself.

Any plans for a kindle version? As I lives in an asian country (Sri Lanka) kindle is best and only way to access amazon book store :)

I assume you mean having the book physically shipped to Sri Lanka is not feasible/possible. Consider buying the ebook from Manning directly [0]. They do offer the ebook in Kindle (mobi) format.

[0]: http://manning.com/resig/

Once there's a pdf or other ebook available it'll be pirated. How that doesn't damage sales I'll never understand. The Lazarus (object pascal ide) book is only available in a physical book format for this reason.

It may well be pirated regardless:

http://www.themillions.com/2010/01/confessions-of-a-book-pir...

In another life I wrote technical books, which at the time were only available in physical formats. That didn't stop electronic versions of the more popular books from appearing on usenet.

That's a good read. It's hard to understand the motivation of someone who's prepared to put in that many hours pirating a single book. It's seems a bit pathetic

> How that doesn't damage sales I'll never understand.

Because the people downloading it are not necessarily the same people who'd have bought it otherwise.

Plus exposure. I pirate a lot of stuff. At the same time I buy more books and music than anyone else I know.

Yes. Shipping to Sri Lanka is harder or takes too much time. Thanks. I will go for the manning site. It works

This blog post is worth reading. In it he apologizes for the book taking so long and expresses some regret for taking on the project in the first place:

"Ironically working on the book (or not working on it, however you look at it) actually compelled me to NOT blog more as every time I wanted to write a technical blog post I was forcing myself to make the decision “I’m writing about 1000 words on a technical matter, shouldn’t this just be going towards my uncompleted book?” and would just end up writing nothing as a result."

Procastination 101

Makes me kinda hate the book since he was such an awesome blogger. :(

Aww. I really want to start blogging again, in ernest, this year. I loved all the old blog posts I did - would love to do it again!

I suppose a true ninja never announces himself.

4 years ago that title would have been awesome too

I think it is a good title for 2012/2013 also. They could have called it "Barf" though, and I'd be excited about it.