{"id":390,"date":"2010-09-03T18:09:00","date_gmt":"2010-09-04T03:09:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cloudidentity.com\/blog\/2010\/09\/03\/the-first-dead-tree-copy-of-the-book-is-here\/"},"modified":"2010-09-03T18:09:00","modified_gmt":"2010-09-04T03:09:00","slug":"the-first-dead-tree-copy-of-the-book-is-here","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cloudidentity.com\/blog\/2010\/09\/03\/the-first-dead-tree-copy-of-the-book-is-here\/","title":{"rendered":"The First Dead-Tree Copy of the Book is Here!"},"content":{"rendered":"

[I know, you must be sick of book<\/a>-related posts: please bear with me just a bit longer, I think we’re almost done :-)]<\/p>\n

[UPDATED]<\/p>\n

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YES! I just found under the door mat – wait for it – the very first printed copy of Programming Windows Identity Foundation<\/a>! Considering that exactly today it’s 9 years that I work in Microsoft, I can think of very few better ways to celebrate \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n

In the picture above I re-created the work setup I used for most of the writing: Visual Studio on the tablet screen, the manuscript in the portrait screen, reference material (specs etc) on the old Relisys from Italy (before you ask: hooked to the tablet via DisplayLink). And of course the whiteboard, with the Enrico la Talpa that I use for christening ALL whiteboards, real or virtual. Ryan<\/a> and David<\/a>, please do not add any details about that \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n

The book is slightly thinner than I expected, but I get that feeling for every book: it’s a function of the amount of work they require, the thickness is never <\/em>enough. The pry bar on the cover is awesome, I can’t believe it was never used before by the Microsoft Press covers team… I feel privileged \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n

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The production guys did a superb job with the illustrations. I was real worried that some would be just too hard to read, but they ended up looking great and perfectly readable even when featuring multiple keys.<\/p>\n

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OK, the physical copy<\/a> is here; now the question becomes, when is it going to be there<\/em><\/strong>? I.e., when are the printed copies going to be available? I know as much as you in this respect. As silly as it sounds, a couple of weeks ago I bought a copy of the book on Amazon and I’ve been polling the shipments page ever since. I doubt that they fired up the printing machinery and printed just this copy for making me happy, hence I’d consider this a sign that the printed copies are just about to hit the warehouses.<\/p>\n

Ahh, I was supposed to still do a couple of things before checking out: but now I think I’ll just get downstairs, open a beer and leaf through this bad boy. I’ve got to enjoy this bliss while that lasts, soon enough I’ll enter the phase in which I’ll be unsatisfied with the way I wrote this and that \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n

[UPDATE 9\/30 – 6:30 PM PST] <\/strong>Not even 30 mins, bliss already over! Found a typo which completely changes the meaning of the sentence. Page 234: “the new version of the protocol is now<\/span> backward compatible with OAuth 1.0 and is largely based on OAuth WRAP. <\/span>” should be “the new version of the protocol is not<\/span> backward compatible with OAuth 1.0 and is largely based on OAuth WRAP. <\/span>“<\/p>\n

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