Part of the Software Internals Email Book Club.
Taking a temporary break from purely software reads, the next book we'll cover is Writing for Developers by Piotr Sarna and Cynthia Dunlop. You can use the discount code SIBCdunlop for 50% off. (Both authors have agreed to join the book club!)
All discussion is via a Google Group. You probably need a Google account. Your email will be public if you post but otherwise it will not be visible to anyone.
There will be no Zoom or Google Hangout, it will purely be over text email.
Each week, one person will send out an email on Saturday recapping the chapter to start discussion. It can be as short as a paragraph or two just to get discussion going. Anyone else can chime in afterward.
Don't worry about being an expert and don't worry about what to say, I'll go first and will prod you when it's your turn.
Sign up here.
It's a short book and non-technical so we will read two chapters per week, roughly 30 pages per week.
Each week one member of the group kicks off discussion for the previous two chapter. On February 8th I'll start a discussion on chapters 1 and 2.
You should read the chapters before the date it is listed.
Here are the folks (tentatively) starting discussion each week.
| Date | Leader | Chapters | Titles |
| February 8th | Phil | 1 & 2 | Why Write & What to Write |
| February 15th | TBD | 3 & 4 | Captivating Readers & Creating Your Working Draft |
| February 22nd | TBD | 5 & 6 | Optimizing Your Draft & Getting Feedback |
| March 1st | TBD | 7 & 8 | Ship It & The "Bug Hunt" Pattern |
| March 8th | TBD | 9 & 10 | The "Rewrite It in X" Pattern & The "How We Built It" Pattern |
| March 15th | TBD | 11 & 12 | The "Lessons Learned" Pattern & "The Thoughts on Trends" Pattern |
| March 22nd | TBD | 13 & 14 | The "Non-Markety Product Perspectives" Pattern & The "Benchmarks and Test Results" Pattern |
| March 29th | TBD | 15 & 16 | Getting Attention & From Blog Post to Conference Talk |
| April 5th | TBD | 17 | So You Want to Write a Book |