the finger-keyboard synapse

Are you allowed to gloat after being internationally published and translated?

Co-writing the wxWidgets book was an amazing opportunity. I was lucky enough to find a followup opportunity by using my leverage as co-author of the book to write an article about wxWidgets that was accepted for publication in Software Developer's Journal. Even more amazing, the article was translated into Polish, German and French, and included in each country's corresponding version of the magazine. The original English article will be published in SDJ's electronic-only English magazine in November.

If you live in any of those countries and would like to try and locate a copy of the magazine, here is the name and issue for each country:

• Poland: Software Developer's Journal, October issue (see scan below)
  
• France: Programmation Sous Linux, November/December issue
  
• Germany: Programmieren Unter Linux, November/December issue

Here's the cover of the Polish magazine (click for larger version):

And here's the beginning of the article; my name is visible towards the upper-left. Notice also the mention of BitWise IM in the opening paragraph.

I guess you could say that all in all it has been a pretty good week. :)