Pocket Revolutionary

This blog has moved. You can find my newest version at www.pocketrevolutionary.com. Thanks!

I created a background for the new year…

So, ComicBookFonts.com had their annual sale and everything (even Comicrazy, the $400 font) was on sale for $20.11. I got a few, and I had to play with them…

My new book, TYPO3 Templates, is shipping and a few people already have their copies! You can order it at Amazon here (with my affiliate link). If you’d like the electronic version, Packt Publishing is offering a great combo deal right now here.

If you think the book is helpful, please consider leaving a quick review on Amazon so that others might decide to pick it up and learn some TYPO3 tricks from it. My main goal is to help as many people as possible build great websites, and this book is one large part of that.

Thanks again to everybody who helped me out with this book and continues to help promote TYPO3 to web development community.

Well, I know I’ve been an absentee blogger for a while, but I do have a great excuse: I finished a book and it’s available for pre-order now! TYPO3 Templates, from Packt Publishing, is a twisting narrative of love, loss, and TYPO3 templates. Okay, it’s mostly just TYPO3, but it does have stick figures and many, many references to making coffee. It is also set in Texas. This alone should help me earn my sought-after honorific, “the Cormac McCarthy of really obscure technical writers”.

To be honest, I just wanted to formally announce the book here, and I’m not sure how. I wanted to make a video, but I ran out of time. I was going to make an awesome website to announce the book and give a lot of helpful tutorials, but Ron Hall is already working on an awesome site with tutorials and, well, he’ll make a better-looking site than I would. I was going to at least redesign this site, but I’m still obsessively playing with fonts. Instead of anything that would require real time, I’ve decided to write the first honest, objective review (which you may freely copy and post on Amazon or other sites):

TYPO3 Templates is possibly the most amazing, groundbreaking book on building templates in TYPO3 to be published this year! From the introduction covering the history of TYPO3 to the end which covers, uh, more TYPO3, the author keeps us in suspense. Will we lay out our pages with HTML, CSS, or some crazy TypoScript magic? Can we make a mobile version of our site? Did the author manage to fit the Lost numbers into the book? (Yes, he did.) Most importantly, the author obviously had the support of a beautiful wife and some great friends to make it through this past year of writing. He’s probably really, really grateful for everything. I’m sure, without them, he would have given it all up and written a book about Drupal (I kid, I kid).

p.s. – It’s probably not the most entertaining nighttime read, to be honest, as it is a technical book about creating templates in a nerdy content management system. If you’re my friend, and you don’t work with TYPO3, feel no pressure to buy this book. If you’re my friend, and you work in TYPO3, I probably learned everything in it from you and Packt will send you a review copy.