Tuesday, December 1, 1998

My book is outselling Harry Potter

For one day anyway, my book

Learn to Program with Visual Basic 6

is the number one selling book on Amazon--and Harry Potter is second!

Monday, November 30, 1998

Just published my first book!

I'm happy to announce that I've just published my first book,

Learn to Program With Visual Basic 6
Wrox Publishing
ISBN 1902-745-000

It will be published under Wrox's ActivePath imprint.

You can order copies online at Amazon using this link...

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1590591518/ref=nosim/professorsmileys

Thursday, November 19, 1998

Volunteer Group--what happened to it

Someone just asked what happened to my Volunteer Group?

Question: What happened to your volunteer group---I thought it was a wonderful idea.

Anser. My volunteer group was a great idea

http://www.johnsmiley.com/volunteers.htm

Unfortunately, nothing seemed to be able to solve the distance problem---people working on a single project that are geographically dispersed have some big hurdles to surmount.

I've read recently about a similar program, however, and I think they're doing a better job of administering the program than I had the time to spend. Check them out at:

http://www.vbdesignteam.com