So this morning I received an email which basically said
“Hey, stop writing basic stuff on XPO and XAF and start writing about the advanced stuff that I need to know about. The community can look after the noobs, but you need to start looking after those of us who’ve been doing this for a while.”
The author makes a valid point. Although I’m not going to stop writing the XAF and XPO cookbooks for two reasons; firstly, if you are going to write a cookbook it needs to cover everything and that includes the basics to begin with, and secondly, the “community” may not reply to a new customer in quite the tone that DevExpress would hope for, if you know what I mean ;-)
Having said that, there is no reason why I can’t write a more advanced series in parallel and that is what this post is about. The term “advanced topics” doesn’t help me know what information you want. So, would you like to see an article on a particular topic that you consider to be “advanced”? If so, leave a comment and I’ll take a look at it. In the meantime, I replied to the author of the email asking for his top three topics as somewhere for me to start, so look out for this series coming in parallel with the cookbook stuff.
As an aside, what is a more advanced version of a cookbook called? Send me your ideas for a title, there’s no prize, just the honour and the glory of naming the series. :-)