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In lugnet.events.brickswest, Alfred Speredelozzi writes:
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> > Tim Courtney announced preorders for Virtual Lego, the book he and Ahui are
> > authoring. Syngress is also offering 25% off their texts.
>
>
> Isn't Syngress the evil publisher of the competing clone copy of Courtney's
> book?
Nope, definitely not evil, or clone. Two projects which developed
concurrently. I had a good time with Kevin and Jon this weekend, and can't
wait to get my hands on a copy of Powertools. *but* I'm waiting till we're
finished with Virtual LEGO first :-)
> I went to the site hoping to find a discounted version of Virtual Lego.
> (Always looking for a bargain on something I know I am going to buy.) But I
> found "Lego Power Tools" instead. :(
I haven't had the time to get the Virtual LEGO information up on LDraw.org
yet. I'll do that hopefully tomorrow, as I recover from BricksWest. For
preorder info, you can check out the No Starch website at www.nostarch.com.
Thanks for your enthusiasm for the book :-)
-Tim
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In lugnet.events.brickswest, Tim Courtney writes:
> In lugnet.events.brickswest, Alfred Speredelozzi writes:
> >
> > > Tim Courtney announced preorders for Virtual Lego, the book he and Ahui are
> > > authoring. Syngress is also offering 25% off their texts.
> >
> >
> > Isn't Syngress the evil publisher of the competing clone copy of Courtney's
> > book?
>
> Nope, definitely not evil, or clone. Two projects which developed
> concurrently. I had a good time with Kevin and Jon this weekend, and can't
> wait to get my hands on a copy of Powertools. *but* I'm waiting till we're
> finished with Virtual LEGO first :-)
Thanks for clarifying this Tim. We've both been working on LDraw CAD related
books, and helping each other through it. I can tell you that Miguel Agullo
and I wrote the entire Power Tools book ourselves. I don't know how we can be
a clone when we finished first :^)
Tim graciously put a page on LDraw.org about our book, because it is good for
the LDraw community. Thanks Tim.
LDraw is *very* important to AFOLs, so it makes sense that there might be more
than one book written about it. Tim is an obvious choice to write a book
because he helped create LDRaw.org.
I am also a good candidate for writing a book, because I wrote two LDraw
compatible CAD programs LPub and LSynth that have quickly become popular in the
LEGO CAD world.
I'm personally opposed to cloning, because I'm pretty sure I wouldn't get along
with myself. LOL!
Kevin
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> > I went to the site hoping to find a discounted version of Virtual Lego.
> > (Always looking for a bargain on something I know I am going to buy.) But I
> > found "Lego Power Tools" instead. :(
>
> I haven't had the time to get the Virtual LEGO information up on LDraw.org
> yet. I'll do that hopefully tomorrow, as I recover from BricksWest. For
> preorder info, you can check out the No Starch website at www.nostarch.com.
>
> Thanks for your enthusiasm for the book :-)
>
> -Tim
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In lugnet.events.brickswest, Kevin Clague writes:
> Thanks for clarifying this Tim.
No problem.
> We've both been working on LDraw CAD related
> books, and helping each other through it. I can tell you that Miguel Agullo
> and I wrote the entire Power Tools book ourselves. I don't know how we can be
> a clone when we finished first :^)
>
> Tim graciously put a page on LDraw.org about our book, because it is good for
> the LDraw community. Thanks Tim.
My pleasure.
> LDraw is *very* important to AFOLs, so it makes sense that there might be more
> than one book written about it. Tim is an obvious choice to write a book
> because he helped create LDRaw.org.
>
> I am also a good candidate for writing a book, because I wrote two LDraw
> compatible CAD programs LPub and LSynth that have quickly become popular in the
> LEGO CAD world.
Absolutely. By the way, for those of you who don't know... Syngress
facilitated the creation of LPub, paid Kevin to write it, and then told him
that he maintained all rights to it. I made a point of pulling Jon Babcock
aside and thanking him for that at BricksWest -- LPub has been a HUGE help
to the LDraw community.
> I'm personally opposed to cloning, because I'm pretty sure I wouldn't get along
> with myself. LOL!
ROFL! :-)
-Tim
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