My 15 minutes?

It's been a busy few weeks:

• Dries Buytaert gave a favorable review of my Learning Drupal 6 book. A couple of other positive reviews also landed on Amazon last week while I was in Szeged.
• Surprisingly, the OpenLDAP book hit #1 on Amazon's Linux list! And right now it still has a 5-star rating.
• I've moved to Chicago and joined Palantir.net, one of the top-tier Drupal shops. I posted my first blog yesterday.

Now if only I could get the JavaScript book finished....

LDAP/Python Parts 2 and 3 Published

Parts 2 and 3 of "Python LDAP Applications" have been published at the Packt site:

Python LDAP Applications: Part 2 - LDAP Opearations

Python LDAP Applications: Part 3 - More LDAP Operations and the LDAP URL Library

Review of Mastering OpenLDAP

At the beginning of the month, Phil Lembo (a very serious LDAP guy) posted a review of my book on the ELDAPO blog. The review was overwhelmingly positive.

The Mastering OpenLDAP book has been a little bittersweet for me. I was very proud of the book, and I tried very hard during the development of it to make sure that it was a clear, accurate, and well-structured explanation of OpenLDAP. I did more research for that one book than I had for the previous two books combined, and the writing took nearly a year (which, given my proclivity to spit out prose, is a long time).

The reception from the OpenLDAP developers themselves has been tepid... well, cold, actually. For a while, I was feeling like I'd pretty much failed in the task I had set for myself. Phil's review has been very encouraging, though.