Show HN: My first technical manual.

Today I made my first sale of my first technical manual and I wanted to share the news!

I chose FastSpring as the vending machine because of Hacker News. I included many details about the book, along with a sample chapter, because of Hacker News. I received such good advice from you that I could not help but share and give my thanks.

As a small token of appreciation, I would be delighted to answer any questions you may have about the entire process, from inception to first book sale.

Thank you!

*Edit: For those who are interested in reports, part of the book describes an open source report integration framework. The idea is to write applications such that they can use reports without being tied to a specific reporting tool implementation.

http://www.whitemagicsoftware.com/software/java/rif/

http://www.whitemagicsoftware.com/software/java/rif/api/

Chapter 15 of the book (also free) describes how the implementation works.

http://www.whitemagicsoftware.com/books/indispensable/sample...

Congrats!