A couple of years ago Juha-Pekka and I decided it was time to distill our experience of DSM over the last dozen years or so, and publish it in a book so others could benefit from the lessons we've learned (some of them the hard way!). That book is now finally released, and last week I had the pleasure of being able to give the first advance copy off the press to Mr. Yoshio Asano from Fujisetsubi, our MetaEdit+ distributors in Japan:

I'm not normally one for having my photo taken -- a policy I think our marketing department would agree with -- but I wanted some evidence that I had held the real finished article in my hands, to keep me going while I wait for our authors' copies to arrive from Wiley.

The first 40 pages introduce DSM and its characteristic benefits, followed by 50 pages defining an architecture for the various parts of a DSM solution. We're especially happy to have over 100 pages covering five in-depth examples of whole DSM solutions, including the modeling language, generators and domain framework, with the background of the cases and how the solution was designed and built. Those cases provide concrete examples used where necessary in the second half of the book, which describes how to build a DSM solution for your own situation: 200 pages of practical advice backed up by solid theory and real-world experience.

There's more information on the book's web site, dsmbook.com, including links to Amazon, where you can order or search inside. And if you want someone else's opinion, I'll blush most impressively as you read the Foreword which Dave Thomas very kindly wrote for us.