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Introduction: What Happened?
In 1997, while working for Big Tent Media Labs, a now-defunct Web publishing company, I wrote a cool little book called "VBScript: A Visual Quickstart Guide," which was published by PeachPit Press. I'm tremendously proud of this book, despite the fact that the my warnings about numerous printing errors were ignored. The publisher also ceased publication of the title in early 1999, despite the fact that it was Amazon.com's number one selling title about VBScript in 1998. Until mid-2000, PeachPit Press had never contacted me about updating this title. But that's changed: As of now, I am updating this book as ASP/VBScript for the World Wide Web! (Find out more!) This spring, after the book was cancelled, I removed the accompanying Web site and planned to revamp the entire Nexus. These plans were foiled for various reasons, chief among them a life-threatening illness to my one year old son that occupied months of my time. In fact, in the summer of 1999, I moved my family to Boston, Massachusetts where my young son could get the operation and treatment he needed to restore the hearing that was lost as a result of the illness. We're still in the middle of all this as I write these words, but life goes on. And something curious has happened in the meantime: Every week, every single week, I get at least 2 or 3 emails from people who are looking for the Web site for this book. Despite the fact that its out of print, despite the fact that the publisher utterly and totally does not care about its existance, people have never stopped asking me for this Web site. My attempts to get it online again have been thwarted by a literal comedy of problems, the latest of which includes the complete loss of my backup data drive during the move. But it won't die: Just this morning, I received three more requests for the site. So here it is. It will come slowly, but it will come: This week, I will begin the painstaking process of reentering, updating, and correcting all of the code from the book--manually--so that this site can live once again. I'm sorry it took so long (I'm really sorry that I lost the backups: The most recent backup I was able to recover is over a year old and is hopelessly out of date). >
--Paul Thurrott
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