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Head First C# - the top-selling C# book on Amazon!

Remember back in January, when Tim O’Reilly blogged about great Bookscan numbers for Head First C#?
Well, Bookscan numbers don’t always match what you see on Amazon.com. Our intrepid little book has been clawing its way up the Amazon.com sales ranks. It was in the #2 position on the C# bestseller list for the last month. [...]

Speaking, training and writing

We’ve been keeping ourselves busy! What’s that? You want to know more? Well, certainly. We’ve got lots of news:

Jenny and I are doing some guest blogging on the Head First Labs website, talking about what it’s like writing a Head First book (and whatever else we feel like talking about). I’ll be doing the [...]

News from the trenches

Hey, we’re super-busy, so I’ll have to keep this short and sweet. But Jenny and I have some news, and we wanted to share it with you.

We’re in the home stretch on Head First C#. We should be done with the manuscript in the next couple of weeks, which means that it should be [...]

IASA / NYCJava - thanks for having us by!

Jenny and I had a great time doing our “Why Projects Fail” talk at a joint meeting between the International Association of Software Architects and NYC Java SIG (a couple of announcements) at the Microsoft office in midtown Manhattan last night. (Fun trivia fact: my first job out of college was in the same building, [...]

Free Practice PMP Exam!

When Andrew and I were studying for the PMPĀ® exam, we were really surprised to see how few free resources were out there. It was hard to find a good PMP practice exam that wasn’t an advertisement for a really expensive course or that didn’t require that you buy a book of questions, a [...]