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I’m delighted to announce that I have signed a book deal with Apress publishing (the black and yellow techie books). The book is on Apache CouchDB, an exciting document-oriented database management system that is in active development. I was approached by Apress about the prospect of writing a book on CouchDB after my article “Exploring [...]

Author :  Joe Lennon
Joe is a 25-year-old web applications developer and technical writer from Cork, Ireland. For his day job, Joe builds web applications in PL/SQL and JavaScript for Core International, a leading provider of enterprise HR software in Ireland and the UK. Joe is also a published author, having his debut book, "Beginning CouchDB" published in 2009 by Apress. In addition, Joe is a regular contributing author to IBM's developerWorks technical library website. Joe is also contributing to a forthcoming IBM Press book, "Getting Started with .NET and DB2". Aside from software, Joe enjoys gaming, TV, eating out, motoring and frequent holidays in Spain. He lives in Cork with his girlfriend, Jill and their dog, Toby.

I’m delighted to announce that I have signed a book deal with Apress publishing (the black and yellow techie books). The book is on Apache CouchDB, an exciting document-oriented database management system that is in active development. I was approached by Apress about the prospect of writing a book on CouchDB after my article “Exploring CouchDB” was published on IBM developerWorks back in March 2009. The book is coming along quite nicely and I’ll have much more information to share shortly.

For now, check out my “Exploring CouchDB” article on IBM developerWorks.

Also, please check out Apress.com for similar books. Apress have published over 700 books on a wide range of technology areas including Programming, Web Development, iPhone Development, Open Source, Operating Systems and much more. Below are some of the excellent books they have published (my book will have a similar cover):

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5 Comments on I’m writing a book

  1. Fluffy Links – Wednesday July 1st 2009 « Damien Mulley says:
    July 1, 2009 at 11:19 am

    [...] Congrats to Joe Lennon on his book. [...]

  2. Diarmuid says:
    July 1, 2009 at 1:52 pm

    congrats joe :-) I look forward to reading it!

  3. Fiona Ashe says:
    July 1, 2009 at 4:09 pm

    Many congratulations, Joe. That’s super news. Best, Fiona.

  4. Jonathan Reardon says:
    July 3, 2009 at 3:26 pm

    Been looking for a good CouchDB book for ages now Joe Lennon! Roll on publishing date!

  5. Joe Lennon says:
    July 9, 2009 at 10:16 am

    Thanks Diarmuid, Fiona and Jonathan! :D

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