Re: Book about Platform Builder

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From: Chris Tacke, eMVP (ctacke[at]OpenNETCF_dot_org)
Date: 10/23/04 

Date: Sat, 23 Oct 2004 17:16:30 -0400

The reality is that the market for such a book is quite small and the
expertise required to wrrite it is pretty high. The payoff for someone to
do it just isn't there, which is why you haven't seen one. The only
possibility I see of anyone writing one is for 'resume building and name
recognition' so if someone is a CE consultant, then writing a book could
bring them more business. The problem with that idea, though, is they are
then giving up the knowledge in the book that helps make them an effective
consultant, which kind of goes against paying the rent.

To add to that, Microsoft is beginning to provide a lot more tutorial
documentation online, which further inhibits the desire to write such a
book.

So, IMHO anyway, the only way you'll see such a book is if 1) someone in an
academic areas decides to write one because they get name recognition
without endangering their livlihood or 2) the publishing industry completely
changes their royaly schedules. I don't foresee either in the near future.

<ctacke/>
www.opennetcf.org

"Oliver Münchow" <omuenchow_AT_gesytec_DOT_de> wrote in message
news:opsf9ru9bv3jjwg8@muenchow-ce30.gesytec.de...
> Hi Guys,
>
> since Windows CE 3.0 there are a lot of changes in Windows CE (5.0), but
> all i can find about PB is the good ol' reference 'Building Powerful
> Platforms with Windows CE'. In the time of 3.0 it gave me a lot of
> informations about how PB internaly works and how to write drivers and
> applications. Also under CE 4.x it was a great source although there are
> several changes (e.g. creating BSPs). Now with CE 5.0 further changes came
> into platform builder including a lot of changes about directory
> structures and how all the files are organized. Due to the fact that i
> already got 'some' experience from the 'older' OSes i'm able to came
> through the new version and find everything needed. But you can't memorize
> everything all the time and writing everything onto several papers (or my
> own documentation about PB) isn't also the best way.
>
> So when will there be a new book about Platform Builder??? (Maybe
> 'Developing Windows CE.net Devices' will be published some lovely day)
>
> Regards,
> Oliver Münchow
> --
> ---------------------------------------
> Gesytec GmbH eMail:
> 52076 Aachen omuenchowATgesytecDOTde
> http://www.gesytec.de

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