>Congratulations Rick. All the work you guys are doing to help the VFP community is appreciated a lot.

Thanks, Denis.

>By the way could you give use some details on a book writing. How many hours did you put on this project?

Literally hundreds, over the span of several months.

>Where the heck did you find the time to do it? ;-)

I guess I'd say you don't find time, you just take it from other parts of your life. Being an independent developer I have some latitude in my work schedule, but nearly all of the time I spent on this book came from evenings and weekends.

>Were you in charge of some topics and the other co-writers were in charge of other sections or did you all gave you input and then evalueated what the others did?

Each author agreed to write certain chapters based on his/her areas of interest and experience. Each chapter was reviewed by one of the other authors during the tech editing phase.

>Did it ever happen that the first writing made it as is in your book?

Nope, not with the parts I wrote or edited, anyway. There were typically several rounds of technical editing for each chapter, which I would imagine is true of most books of this nature.

>What part did you like the most? Hated the most?

Interesting question. I've always said the best way to learn something is to teach it to someone else. In other words, by working hard to understand something well enough to explain it to someone else, you teach yourself in the process. In writing this book I liked the challenge of leaving no stone unturned (or at least not many, I hope) while researching the parts I wrote. On the other side, I wouldn't say I actually hated any part of it, but I would say re-reading and revising something you've written for the 'n'-th time gets really tedious!

>What will be the topics covered in your next book?

No plans at the moment, except the plan to take a breather for a while before thinking about another one. < s >