O’Reilly publishing is going to have a pilot program in July for releasing twelve titles to a format usable with the Kindle. In the press release they also mention that it would be available in a format readable by the Sony Reader. They plan on trying to sell the titles as Kindle downloads through Amazon as well. They do site that some of the reluctance to jump completely into this venture is that they want to see how well these sell.
Mike Eaton started this meme back at the start of the month. It’s been interesting reading all of the people who have thrown in their answers to his questions. You can find Mike’s original post and a host of links in the comments to other people over on mike’s blog. Here’s my answers to his questions:
How old were you when you started programming?
I think I was about 11 or 12 when I started programming.
devLINK is a two day conference just outside of Nashville, TN on August 22nd-23rd. It’s a cross-discipline conference having sessions for developers, DBAs, business analysts, architects and project managers. I’ve never been to one but this year I’m making the trek down. Speaking of that trek. The conference is 305.9 miles from Cincinnati. According to Live Maps that’s about four and a half hours. That can be a long drive especially if you’re driving down on your own.