Paper copies of Cadence & Slang are now sold out, but the PDF version is - as always - still on sale. Thanks for your support, everybody.

April 21, 2011, 11:29am

I will be at SxSW. This year, I’ll be speaking, too. Two things are of note, then:

1. New orders won’t ship until March 16, because I’m the one who packs and ships them, and I’ll be out of town.

2. If you find yourself in Austin, too, I’ll have some copies of the book for sale. Hunt me down - probably the best way is through Twitter - and you can pay in person. (Yes, I take cards.)

Alright, that’s it. Have a good week!

March 09, 2011, 10:30am

After a lot of hard work, Cadence & Slang is now available in PDF form. I’m really excited about this, and have put a lot of effort into making it fit the form. Everything from the errata should be reflected in the PDF’s updates. The whole book is re-typeset for 8.5”x11”, in a new typeface that should look nicer on printers and computer displays. It also looks great on iPads. Do you have an iPad? Or a dot matrix? Copies are $25.

And because I don’t think it makes much sense to pay twice for the same content, everyone who bought a physical book will receive the PDF for free. I’m in the process of contacting everybody who purchased through Google Checkout, but many people paid me in cash or through Square, and I don’t have your emails. (Feel free to email or tweet at me if you need a copy; I’m pretty lax about this.)

I really hope you enjoy this. Cadence & Slang has been a labor of love for me, and I’m tremendously excited to expand its audience in this way. I know it’s been a long time coming, so I hope it’s worth the wait.

February 28, 2011, 8:20am

I’ve fixed some major issues with 4.2.7 in the errata. Many thanks to Anders Kierulf for his assistance!

November 28, 2010, 6:14pm

Printing. All done, and I received two advance copies of Cadence & Slang yesterday. They look awesome. After so many months of fretting about the final product, it looks like things have finally paid off. I’ll be mailing one of the copies to the Library of Congress today. Here’s what they look like:

Release party. If you live in Chicago, I’m going to be at New Wave Coffee (the southeast corner of Logan/Milwaukee) on Thursday, October 21 from 6p to 10p for a little release party. I’ll have copies of Cadence & Slang on hand, and you can come with a credit card - I take them with Square, an app that fits Cadence’s principles rather wonderfully. If you don’t live in Chicago, tell your Chicagoan friends to come out and support.

October 12, 2010, 11:03am

Hey all - it’s been a while since I’ve posted to this news section, but I’m writing longer updates at my Kickstarter project of late. The manuscript is finished and printing has begun. For more details, follow my backer updates.

Many thanks for all your interest!

September 11, 2010, 4:34pm

Anthony Zinni was gracious enough to lend me a soapbox to talk about Cadence & Slang over at his design blog, Positive Space. My writeup is posted right now, so you should go and check it out!

I’ve also written up some more on my Kickstarter’s posts about my writing process and heuristic usability.

November 09, 2009, 10:24am

So we’re into November. I’ve stopped bugging you with daily reasons. Donations are about to top $4,000 - almost halfway there.

But most notably, I’m starting to write in longer form over at my Kickstarter project. I just wrote a big post about everybody’s favorite topic: heuristic usability evaulation! You should head over and check it out.

November 04, 2009, 9:20pm

Already people have had their novels, contemporary photography, shipping costs, and absurd emoji translations funded in full. In the grand scheme, Cadence & Slang is just one more data point in a long string of dreams come true of some really passionate individuals. I’m honored to be a part of it, and I harbor tremendous faith in what it’s done so far. If you could help by pledging your support, you’d make one random dude in Chicago who cares about something a lot - enough to publish an entire book about it - very, very happy.

Pledge to Cadence & Slang today.

October 29, 2009, 1:39pm

If you bought a $3 latte at Starbucks this morning, then you probably just wasted $2 to convey caffeine into your half-asleep body. I humbly implore you not to make the same mistake tomorrow morning. The minimum pledge amount is only $1. Every single dollar moves us closer to the goal, and tiny pledges build up really quickly.

Pledge to Cadence & Slang today.

October 28, 2009, 12:21pm