Congrats to the Jibbler - Paul Mutton - on his first O'Reilly book. IRC Hacks will be out in July and features some content from yours truly in chapter 14 on using IRC from mobile phones, although god only knows what havoc the American editor has unleashed on my English spellings and idioms...

It's great to see that he's got possibly the best ever front cover for a book in the Hacks series, the hacksaw is just perfect. As you'd expect from the author of PircBot there's plenty of IRC bot coverage in the book, but the rest of the book certainly doesn't look flimsy and there's lots of quality contributors; I certainly feel a little intimidated being called one of "of the world's most renowned IRC hackers"!

The sections I'm really looking forward to reading (other than all the bot sections) are those on enhancing clients, and providing alternative ways to access IRC.