a great idea<\/a>. There’ll be no wild emotion round here because I didn’t know any of the people involved well, but I can wholeheartedly recommend people buy that book. Not only can I be fairly certain that it’ll be a high quality book written by people who are knowlegable and passionate about Apex, but it’s going to help out the families of a couple of good friends of the Apex community. Even my miserable and cloudy personality is struggling to see a down-side there 😉 <\/p>\nI tip my hat to the authors and hope as many people as possible place an order.<\/p>\n
Nice idea John!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
I’ve built up quite a blogging back-log that I hope to clear a little over the next week, but I saw something today that’s more important than any of the posts to come so I wanted to blog about that quickly first. 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