Chris Webb

Author Charles Petzold on Deadlines and Letting Go

Author Charles Petzold discussing our forthcoming book, The Annotated Turing: In an ideal imaginary world, a book is finished only when the author is fully satisfied that every word and comma is perfect. In the real world, that doesn’t work. The only way books ever get finished is with the imposition of a deadline — sometimes [...]

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Working with Charles Petzold

I have alluded to this a few times here on the blog, and with Charles talking about it and Amazon.com posting the product page I suppose I should post about it as well. I have the extreme honor of working with programming legend Charles Petzold on his next book, The Annotated Turing. The cover is [...]

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Struggles with Google Books

Wiley author Charles Petzold points out some frustrating limitations with Google Books in a recent post on his blog. This is not a blog entry by an author who thinks that Google Books is evil because it promotes the idea of free books. This is a blog entry by an author who sees Google Books as [...]

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