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For those of you waiting for an e-book copy of Joomla! Cash, Packt has finally released one.

Joomla! Cash is now available on Amazon.com, and I’m soon to receive my personal copies of the book. I’m pretty excited to finally be seeing the fruits of a long and difficult labor. Or, you can buy it directly from Packt Publishing. The Joomla! project receives 5% of proceeds from your purchase of the book, and it’s available in traditional dead-tree or e-book formats.

Other cool places I’ve found my book: Bookpool, Compman.co.uk, Comcol.nl, and the fine lads at Vulture Central are pushing my pages as well!

I’m pleased to announce that my long gestating book on adapting Joomla to business needs will be publishing on October 25th, 2007. “Joomla! Cash” will give the reader a quick read on how to rapidly establish a money-making Joomla! website, and how to adapt this powerful CMS to a variety of other business uses. [pre-order]

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My editors thought my section on banner advertisements went into too much detail. Specifically, they felt that explaining the differences between different banner ad formats, as well as different banner ad compensation schemes (CPM, CPC, and so on) ran against our concept of a quick-read oriented book. I tried to write the book explaining all the things I would’ve wanted to know when I first started as a webmaster. Accordingly, it is my pleasure to be able to publish the excised section, with a few brief paragraphs lifted directly from my manuscript, free to all, on my companion website, JoomlaWarrior.com.

The excised section runs about ten pages, which are somewhat boring and cover familiar ground for experienced webmasters, but those of us who are new to the idea of publishing a money-making website will find this information relevant and informative.

Do bear in mind that I am still (yes, still) completing final draft revisions to the book itself, so the companion website is still, as of this posting, very rough and unfinished. I’ll be turning my attention to the companion site as soon as my editors sign off on the book’s final draft, and will be adding even more excised sections, as well as limited excerpts from the actual published book pending permission from my publisher and editors.

Here’s the link to the Banner Advertisement Tutorial.

“I did not lose my book. I DID NOT lose my book”.

That was me, as I realized that my attempt to install Gentoo Linux on a new partition had resulted in the NTFS partition on the same drive being deleted.

Thank God for Data Recovery software. I managed to pull my book back from the abyss. Lost a lot of other, less important, but still annoying-to-replace stuff, though.

This is what I get for being lax about keeping my personal files backed up. A near-disaster. In other news, I’m nearly done with my draft revisions.