Chuck and Sacha are writing another book

I still haven’t gotten my autographed copy of the first one their first book, “Practical WebObjects”. It was well received by the WebObjects community and the greater Java/Web Application Development community. I think they even thanked me in the credits, for what I don’t know. I worked with them while at Global Village Consulting. In fact their new proposed book, may well be based partly off Chuck’s internal WebObjects introduction course.

In 2026 it took some digging but I found an old post by David Leber who is also apparently not a fan of PHP and finally moved his blog off WordPress in 2026. That seems to be a growing trend, being a blogger for twenty plus years is hard and unscrupulous actors make it harder than it should be.

It is also hard to find WebObjects programmers

You can find people who know Java or who know SQL, or who know HTML/DHTML/JavaScript/CSS/Web 2.0 even, but finding WebObjects developers can be tough, hopefully their books will make it easier for people to get up to speed with WebObjects. Maybe I’m wasting my WebObjects skills while doing my MBA, every now and then someone will come upon my resume while doing a search for say “WebObjects Developer Vancouver” or even “WebObjects Developer Calgary” or some other combination, possibly throwing in “resume” might help in Google, the results are always changing.

Studying Rather than Coding

I went to China to study and due to both our busy schedules I haven’t seen either Chuck or Sacha since before I went to Japan. I’m thinking I won’t be getting my free book. I once tried to look into the now open sourced GVC.SiteMaker, but due to a less than stellar internet connection in Prince George I never got very far. I still don’t think I’ve downloaded Ant. Now I have priorities and what little time I have to devote to web development goes into my blog.

Still Updating Old Blog Posts in 2026

Even more time has passed, both Chuck and Sacha are retired. I’ve been back to Vancouver, most recently in Christmas 2025, but I never saw either of them. We are all still LinkedIn. I think their one book is online. I never went back to WebObjects but I did write more Objective-C in my spare time. I also wrote too much PHP and VBA and even had to learn ColdFusion for a job once. Now I mostly code in T-SQL though the biggest news is I spent months learning yet more Python for a certificate. In 2026, maybe I’ll even get to use Python at work, but I’m not optimistic at the moment, I think all my effort to improve my resume will be put to the test soon.

I don’t think the word “WebObjects” appears on my resume anymore. If you have thoughts on WebObjects, Apple’s frameworks, software development, programming, or even writing a book you can leave a comment below, the spammers must have gotten bored with this post.

This entry was originaly posted on November 6th, 2005, it was last edited on May 2nd, 2026 and is filed under: Technology and tagged: Apple, Software Development, WebObjects.