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Sep 28
Big Change – “Migrating Apps To IPv6” no longer published by O’Reilly – new Second Edition planned for 2020

There has been a big change with the book. About a year ago I approached my editor at O’Reilly about creating a second edition of the book. It turned out that because the book hadn’t really ever sold well (more on that below), they were no longer interested in carrying the book. They were, however, willing to revert the copyright and all content to me (except for the cover art and their branding, of course). This was actually fine by me and so we parted amicably.
I am immensely grateful to O’Reilly for publishing the first edition of this book! As people who have read the book know, the book emerged out of a proposal to speak at the OSCON 2011 conference. I thank the whole team at O’Reilly for all their help in making this book happen.
What’s Next?
I’m now planning a Second Edition of the book, with the plan to simply self-publish through one of the various publishing platforms (most likely Amazon, but we’ll see). The goal will be to publish sometime in 2020.
I am also planning to make all of the content freely available in a git repository. It won’t be on Github, because that site only works over IPv4. I’m looking into several Gitlab installations that do work over IPv6.
Along the way I’ll be converting the text from DocBook XML to Markdown, updating a good number of the links, and making a number of other changes.
I am very excited about this change. One of the issues I had with the First Edition (and the major critique in any reviews) was that the book was priced at $24.99. This was not MY choice. In a traditional publishing relationship, the publisher sets the price. The author has no control over this. I always felt this was too high for the small size of the book. Now, I can set a more appropriate price. I can also make the content available for free, as I mentioned above.
If you are interested in receiving updates about the Second Edition as I move forward with it, please fill out this short form.
Thanks to everyone who has helped with the book over the years. Thank you again to everyone at O’Reilly who helped make this book happen.
Now… on to the Second Edition!
Sep 27
Watch Live Tonight – 2019 Internet Hall of Fame Ceremony (Featured Blog)
Sep 27
Watch Live Tonight – 2019 Internet Hall of Fame Ceremony (Featured Blog)
Sep 24
Call for Participation – ICANN DNSSEC and Security Workshop at ICANN66, Montreal, Canada (Featured Blog)
Sep 24
Call for Participation – ICANN DNSSEC and Security Workshop at ICANN66, Montreal, Canada (Featured Blog)
Sep 24
Call for Participation – ICANN DNSSEC and Security Workshop at ICANN66, Montreal, Canada (Featured Blog)
Sep 13
Updating the site – and deleting old posts
With some impending changes related to the book, I am cleaning up the site to remove some of the older information. For example, I am removing blog posts related to old sales from many years ago. The one down side to this is that links in old social media posts may not all work. However, an archive of the site is available:
Sep 13
Updating the site – and deleting old posts
With some impending changes related to the book, I am cleaning up the site to remove some of the older information. For example, I am removing blog posts related to old sales from many years ago. The one down side to this is that links in old social media posts may not all work. However, an archive of the site is available:
Aug 28
Celebrating my 1-year Cancerversary… with a Colonoscopy!
Today was a wonderful day. It was the one-year anniversary of the surgery (28 Aug 2018) that removed the sigmoid section of my colon, taking with it any potential cancer (there wasn’t any!).
By virtue of the joys of trying to align various schedules, it was also the day for a follow-up colonoscopy to see if there were any more polyps or signs of cancer. After the rather horrid preparation process, I went to the hospital this morning, had the test, and received the news that there were NO further signs of cancer!
Between this colonoscopy today, a CT scan earlier this month, and some recent blood tests, it does seem that the cancer is all gone. The other excellent piece of news is that I don’t need to do a colonoscopy for 3 years!
Many thanks to Dr. Peter Cataldo’s team - and to all the nurses and others at the UVM Medical Center here in Burlington. They were all excellent and very helpful and supportive.
All in all, a great day.
P.S. As a bonus for me as a geek and engineer… when they were taking me into the room for the procedure, the doctor asked if I wanted to be asleep or awake. I had been planning for sedation (and NOT looking forward to it) and wasn’t aware that there was even an option for being conscious.
Of course I had to stay awake and watch! So I got to see the video as they moved the scope up through my colon. I saw where they did the surgery (and was reminded that I actually have tiny titanium staples inside of me). And I got to see where my appendix is. All very cool to see!
Previous entries in my cancer stories:
- 21 Aug 2018 - The Big C Returns As Colon Cancer... and with me this time
- 3 Sep 2018 - Post-surgery recovery: Every day brings a series of small victories
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