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20080514 Wednesday May 14, 2008

Book Signing at JavaOne

At JavaOne, the authors of "Rich Client Programming: Plugging into the NetBeans Platform" (Jaroslav Tulach, Tim Boudreau, and myself) did a book signing. Here we all are, being authors at the book signing:

The queue of people wanting their copy of the book signed seemed very long...

...until we realized that they were ALL waiting for the next author's book signing. They'd come early because they knew the next author's queue would be very long. The next author was Josh Bloch, to sign the latest "Effective Java". And he was delayed because he was being mobbed on his way to his book signing. By people wanting him to sign their copy of his book...

May 14 2008, 10:42:26 AM PDT Permalink