Crisis Averted!

Back in April, I stumbled upon the Amazon pre-order page for the new Ajax Design Patterns book from O'Reilly. A few days later I placed my order with an estimated arrival date of June 9.

I waited patiently for June to arrive when I realized I should have received the book already - it was June 28. I had Amazon customer support call me (that's how it works: they call you, I swear), and the rep explained to me they didn't have any idea when they'd receive the book and the best estimate they could give me is somewhere between July 30 and August 15.

I next headed over to the O'Reilly site to see if I could get it straight from the publisher, and I found it backordered with no estimate of availability.

Update (5 July, 2006) This morning I woke up to a wonderful suprise. It seems Amazon now has Ajax Design Patterns in stock, and is shipping the item starting today. One week after Amazon had no reasonable idea when they would have this book in stock, it will arrive at my doorstep.

I just stumbled across the Amazon pre-order page for a new O'Reilly book, Ajax Design Patterns, based on Michael Mahemoff's Ajax Patterns wiki. It's set to be released on June 1.

From the Amazon description:

Ajax Design Patterns provides best practices for web developers by investigating how others have successfully dealt with conflicting design principles. You will find sections on foundational technology patterns, programming patterns, functionality and usability patterns, and diagnosis/testing of Ajax applications. Ajax is all about usability, so the patterns in this book focus on delivering usability in the face of constraints, such as user capabilities and expectations, bandwidth limits, the stateless nature of HTTP, and the complexity of Javascript.

I'm excited to see a wiki like this published in book form, especially an O'Reilly book. I'm also excited because Lace makes an appearance or two. It might not be much, but it's the first code I've written to be published in text form on such a massive scale.