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Working with a Publisher

By Alexandru Bolboaca
In Writing & Publishing
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How time passes! It seems only yesterday I was publishing my first book, after starting it in a completely unplanned manner. Yet that was 2016, and we’re in 2019 now. 3 years later, I published my third book, “Hands-on Functional Programming with C++”, and my first book written with a publisher. Once again, I feel compelled to write about the process, for one simple reason: I...

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What I’ve Learned From Publishing My First Book

By Alexandru Bolboaca
In Writing & Publishing
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I had a wish starting from 5th grade: to publish a book. A wish finally fulfilled this year when my first book, “Usable Software Design” became available on leanpub. But this is not a blog post about the book per se. It’s not even meant to convince you to buy it (although you should). It’s more about convincing you that you have to publish your own book. It’s fun, it...

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A new home for merging ideas about design

It is my strong belief that software design can learn a lot from other design disciplines. I wrote blog posts, a book and did talks on this topic, and it was time to group them all together. These ideas have now a new home: https://codedesigner.eu. My plan is to add more blog posts there, and to involve other people doing work in this area.