For the past two years, I've been working on a second edition of my book "Refactoring". Here I have details about the new edition and some memos describing my thoughts in the last months of this project.
The paper edition has been sent to the printers and we expect to see physical copies in late October - early November. I also need to work on the web edition, but won't be able to start on that until mid October. Subscribers to the Safari online books
service can access a rough-cut
of the book. You can also pre-order the book from InformIT 
or Amazon 
(but don't take their publication dates seriously).
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Earlier Memos ▶
Latest Memo: Gone to the Printers
28 September 2018
The files for the second edition were sent to the printers today. This completes all the work we needed to do on producing the print edition. My thanks again to Alina Kirsanova who composed the book, did proof reading (finding some particularly embarrassing errors), and did the index. Julie Nahil, from Pearson, has been the production editor on the book, coordinating all this production work.
We expect printed books to appear in Pearson’s warehouse towards the end of October or early in November. They should go out into the retail channel shortly after that.
But one hiccup may be the web edition. We don’t want the print edition to appear before we have the web edition sorted out, and I haven’t had as much time as I would like to sort that out. I’ve taken a couple of weeks vacation (hiking in Cornwall, some theater in London, games with friends, and some pleasantly extravagant food), and now have a couple of business trips over the next two weeks. I’ve now got most of the elements of the pipeline for the web edition sorted out, but won’t be able to start work on it properly until mid October. Hopefully it won’t take too long to come together, but as I haven’t done this before I don’t know what can go wrong. Other than it’s software, and we all now how easy that is to predict!
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