Tips Vol 5 and upcoming articles

I've had a few questions about when the Tips Vol 5 book is coming out. Normally we do the pre-sales about 4-6 weeks before the expected ship date, which meant the book would have shipped around the middle of January. But in retrospect it probably wasn't a good idea to run this process over Christmas (and the CSP beta releases, as welcome as they were, didn't help either!). But the good news is that production on the book is almost done, and we're hoping to have the first proof order off to the printers around the end of this week, with the final version about a week after that.

There are still three terrific articles coming this week, including a pair by Jane Fleming. Jane revisits the code-signing certificate purchasing process and also brings to light some interesting features in Vista's Complete PC Backup. And Jeff Slarve has a terrific article on the Datafier. What is the Datafier? Think of it as a repository for global data. But it's much more than that. Read the article later this week and see for yourself.

Posted: January 27 2009