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Every so often someone asks me if I've ever considered writing other genres besides Technical writing. Some of you might already know that I am working on a series of fantasy books (no idea if they'll get published, but I will go insane if I don't finish the story...), but I thought it might be funny to take a seemingly innocent genre of children's books and corrupt them into .NET technical books :)
I have long thought that life might be easier for me if I was able to read "C# 2007 Unleashed" to my daughter instead of "Princess Promenade" or "Pony Party", etc. When my daughter hears that Daddy writes books with boring pictures and too many words, picture Mike Myers with his Scottish-guy SNL skit shouting: "If its not Ponies, its CRAP!"
So, here's a sample paragraph from my upcoming book, My Little Pony .NET Unleashed 2007. Do you think there's a market for this new, sick, twisted genre?
"Oh no, I've got a pointer to an object and I didn't de-allocate the memory!" cried Ultra Happy Shiny Pony.
"That's ok, .NET is a managed environment with a powerful garbage collector. The CLR will take care of that for you!" replied Super Bouncy Mega Pink Pony.
"Phew! That was close!" Ultra Happy Shiny Pony looked relieved!
And here's another gem:
"Oh my!!!" shouted Ultra Happy Shiny Pony. The StringConcatenation Bog monster was approaching rapidly and Ultra Happy Shiny Pony was scared. "What are we going to do?"
"Don't worry. The way to get rid of the StringConcatenation Bog monster is to use a StringBuilder!" cried Super Bouncy Mega Pink Pony.
"A StringBuilder?? What's that?" cried Ultra Happy Shiny Pony with a confused look on her face.
"A StringBuilder is a special class that allows for rapid, memory-efficient concatenation of strings that gets around the inefficiencies of concatenating the default .NET immutable string type." replied Super Bouncy Mega Pink Pony.
"Wow! StringBuilder has saved the day!!"
That's right... you know you're sitting there thinking "Damn, I wish I'd thought of this new hybrid book genre first, now Kevin's going to cash in and become a hojillionaire!". Yep. At least you can say you knew me before I became the uber-famous first-ever author of hybrid childrens-programming books.
Reminds me of <a href="http://poignantguide.net/ruby/">_why's
Poignant Guide to Ruby</a>.
I've read that guide. Hands down the single best online reference material
for any programming language ever created.
Reminds me of Delphi Programming Explorer where the entire second half of
the book was in a 40's detective novel format.
Wow, somehow I managed to miss that book. Learning Delphi via 40s detective
novel format sounds like a blast.
