Howdie!

Good news!!

Congrats!

> Celebrate with me!

We'll have a drink (or two) in Fulda :) ...

With regards,

Martijn Tonies
Database Workbench - the developer tool for InterBase & Firebird
Upscene Productions
http://www.upscene.com

See you at the First European Firebird Conference in May in Fulda, Germany
http://www.firebird-conference.com

> Hi all,
> I'm pleased to tell you that I have exchanged contracts with APress
> (http://www.apress.com) to write and publish "User's Guide to the Firebird
> SQL Database". The manuscript deadline is mid-November. I believe APress
> intends to post the flyers and the outline on its website late in June.
>
> No, it's not the "magnum opus" that the original (1700-page) IBDH was

going

> to be. That one is for another season. This book will be about 700 pages
> and I will try very hard to make it the "real insider" book that we

planned

> back in times past. It will take the same practical approach that was
> visualised for the IBDH and will launch the new Firebird sample database -
> a real C/S database this time around, not a conversion from a bunch of
> crusty old Paradox tables. (If I can avoid distractions over the next two
> weeks, those doing my Database Design segments at the Fulda conference

will

> get a foretaste of the new fdb!)
>