November 02 status updates posted by Julian Gamble @ Tue, 02 Nov 2010...
Today I continued progressing on content and hit my goal. Then I spent some time researching a demo project for a later chapter to impress people looking at the book.
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Today, I made up the missing writing from yesterday – 1500 words (outline, some organizational & research stuff yesterday). Hope, I will be able to write tomorrow.
View ArticleNovember 02 status updates posted by Josef Dietl @ Tue, 02 Nov 2010 22:43:35...
Made it: 1.002 words. For now: Half German (mother tongue), half English. Soon, I’ll have to decide on the language… Anyways, one funny thing happened: After having verified some ancient greek...
View ArticleNovember 02 status updates posted by dan frost @ Tue, 02 Nov 2010 23:14:11 +0000
Good day yesterday (2k+ words). Bit tired today so only 1.4k. Perhaps realising how worn out I am with the topic – but also realising I have a lot of ideas which need organising.Best to get them...
View ArticleNovember 02 status updates posted by Diego Zamboni @ Tue, 02 Nov 2010...
Today: 1,788 words: http://750words.com/entries/share/348931Another good day today – however I am now officially done with the text that I had already written for this book – it got me through the...
View ArticleNovember 02 status updates posted by David Copeland @ Wed, 03 Nov 2010...
Made it with a total of 3764 words, including code.I’m writing a book on making great command line apps in Ruby, and a good 800 words come off as a rant against Perl and bash, so I don’t know if those...
View ArticleNovember 02 status updates posted by Travis Swicegood @ Wed, 03 Nov 2010...
So I’ve modified my counting script a bit:prompt> find . -name "*.rst" | xargs wc | tail -1As such, I checked out yesterday’s code after I finished and re-ran it, so here’s yesterday’s and today’s...
View ArticleNovember 02 status updates posted by Bob Cochran @ Wed, 03 Nov 2010 01:43:35...
Today I created an imaginary character named Derek and described his lackluster efforts to support an imaginary web application with low-quality audit logging documentation, and his manager’s demand...
View ArticleNovember 02 status updates posted by Sean McMillan @ Wed, 03 Nov 2010...
Scratched out some more content. 786 words today, all of it just before bed. Writing good code examples is hard!Edit: ugh. Did I really say “content”? put that on the list of words to avoid.
View ArticleNovember 02 status updates posted by Raymond Yee @ Wed, 03 Nov 2010 03:10:36...
I wrote approximately 600 words and worked on an outline on paper. I spent a lot of time yak shaving by learning about Markdown and associated tools. I think it was time worth spending since I’ve...
View ArticleNovember 02 status updates posted by Josh Carter @ Wed, 03 Nov 2010 04:24:26...
Finished section on ergonomics (...he wrote while slouching in his chair).
View ArticleNovember 02 status updates posted by Josef Dietl @ Wed, 03 Nov 2010 06:05:06...
Raymond: Yak shaving???
View ArticleNovember 02 status updates posted by Janine Ohmer @ Wed, 03 Nov 2010 06:30:52...
I wrote 1508 words today, according to Scrivener. I’ll have to give up on page counts because I added some images (flow charts, yum! :) and it isn’t handling them right; they are being placed on a page...
View ArticleNovember 02 status updates posted by Harold Shinsato @ Wed, 03 Nov 2010...
Whew, I need to start writing a bit earlier – but I’m doing this on a business trip in my hotel. So it’s great having this thread to check-in and keep up the momentum. I’m not quite at the NaNoWriMo...
View ArticleNovember 02 status updates posted by Raymond Yee @ Wed, 03 Nov 2010 10:59:17...
Yak shaving (http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/yak_shaving) ....two complementary, almost opposite, meanings:“(idiomatic) Any apparently useless activity which, by allowing you to overcome intermediate...
View ArticleNovember 02 status updates posted by Brian P. Hogan @ Wed, 03 Nov 2010...
Other distractions couldn’t have come at a worse time. I will write a few chapters this month and come away with something great, but I’ve done only about 500 words a day.Congratulations to those of...
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