It's come up several times, so instead of saying the same thing over and over again, I thought I'd put up a little post.

Back in March, our local paper did a feature on me for taking part in Professional Ajax.

To quote this article:

McPeak is not sure he wants to write another book, but he would like to be part of any revisions or a companion to "Professional Ajax."

Nothing ever gets into print how you want (unless you're the writer), and such is the case with this statement.

To clarify, I am open to any authoring opportunity. The main problem, however, is the subject matter. I know JavaScript, CSS, HTML, browsers' (W3C) DOM, XML, XSL, XPath, some C#, some ASP.NET, .NET, and some SQL (My and MS); I personally don't see myself as a guru in any of my stronger subjects. If I'm going to write a book, obviously it's going to be on a subject that I feel I can explain, and the only subjects that I can explain are explained far better than I could do in other people's books.

So to find a subject that I could write on, and do it better than what's already out there, is a very difficult task.

Despite the work, I enjoyed the six-ish months I spent on co-authoring Professional Ajax. With time willing, I'd love to do it again.