Suppose it would have been more appropriate to make today's announcement yesterday but c'est la vie, que sera sera, ou est la biblioteque and all that.

I'm writing a book with Donald Belcham on practices and techniques that can be used on brownfield applications. The official site is at www.manning.com/baley where you can order the first four  chapters (which makes it sound like we've written more). Chapter 1 is free and as a preview of it, the last sentence is: "The one thing about brownfield development that will double your rate as a consultant, repair your failed side career as a bass guitarist, increase your "performance", and make you a babe and/or dude magnet is....".

Couple of trivia tidbits:

• The guy on the cover was our third choice. First two were the Marquis de Sade and a hooded executioner, both of which we felt would have been more suitable for the topic. We settled on this one primarily because of the whiskey jug.
• The TLA in the title is not an accident

There is a forum available for reporting errors, omissions, and criticism (constructive, reconstructive, destructive, instructive, or otherwise-structive).

So there it is, folks. The first Igloo/Hillbilly collaboration.

Kyle the Brownfielded