Thoughts on writing a technical book (programming book)

Well, I've performed my final author's review, and Professional Cocoa Application Security is all with the printers. This post is about my experiences writing the book, not the book material itself.

My original motivation for writing PCAS was that it was a topic someone needed to talk about, and nobody had hitherto done the talking. I was actually initially approached by Wiley to see if I'd write anything at all - their commissioning editor had seen my Objective-C FAQ and this blog, and liked my style. I said that I didn't want to write a book, I wanted to write this book. It was the best way I could pay back the community that has helped me so much in the years I've been a Mac developer.