Book released!

It's out there and it's official! The book has been released, only 15 months after I began work on it. Here's my announcement to the Zope community:

I'm proud to announce that a second book on Zope 3, "Web Component Development with Zope 3", is officially out now. It is the ideal companion to Stephan Richter's expert "Developer Handbook", serving as a general introduction to Zope X3.0 from a beginner and intermediate point of view.

The book covers every aspect of X3.0, the latest Zope 3 release. All chapters are accompanied by a common example application. Prior Zope 2 knowledge is not necessary, though useful. The book also provides a full ZCML and zapi reference in the appendix. More information about the book, such as a sampler chapter or locations to buy, can be found at the book's offical website, http://worldcookery.com.

At this point I'd like to thank everyone who made this book possible, most importantly Springer-Verlag for publishing it, Jan Smith for her invaluable advice and proof-reading, Sidnei da Silva and Fred L. Drake for their technical support and proof-reading, Roman Joost for his contribution to the example application and last but not least Paul Everitt for his advice and for writing the foreword.