My book’s been for sale over a year now. It was written back in 2006 and released in 2007. I fully expected the whole "Mashup" craze to be over and done with at this point. Here we are in 2008 and I’m still hearing folks touting this as "cutting edge". The latest evidence came this week actually when a vendor presented their "web 2.0" capability as if we’d never heard of it.

Writing a book is fairly rewarding. Just the satisfaction of seeing the words you’ve toiled over printed and bound is a unique experience.

Probably the most rewarding thing though is to read the reviews. The book is published in a number of countries. I will now shamelessly include two reviews. One from the US and one from the UK.

Robert Robbins, (Williamsport, PA USA) – "The book covers more than the Amazon APIs so I recommend it if you are interested in mashups in general. I’m very keen on JSON right now and was pleased to find that covered as well. I think the author is a very good programmer who has many clever ideas like using XSL to transform XML into JSON (although using Yahoo! Pipes is easier). I’d have to say that this is one of the few programming books I’ve read that presented some really ingenious solutions and creative project ideas. Most books just provide uninspiring "Hello World" examples." [LINK]

Alix, (South East) – "Recently purchased this title, and it is quite excellent. From the outset the author makes you aware that this is not going to be another of those boring manuals. He is true to his word, it is crammed with information that you will need to become familiar with if you are looking to write new web applications that havent been done before. There is plenty of information for those in the earlier stages of learning all things ASP.NET and then you are smoothly introduced into the requirements for creating mashups and remixes of widely available APIs. The real strength of the book is in inspiring your imagination to come up with new web based applications, summed up by the fact that i wanted to read and finish this book as quickly as possible because you know that good stuff is waiting for you in the later chapters." [LINK]

I’d say I’m happy with that.