“wxPython 2.8 Application Development Cookbook” is out and my first impressions are very positive. Although I already have a heavily-used copy of “wxPython In Action” I didn’t hesitate to add this new book to my collection. My open source SOFA Statistics application (36,000 downloads to date) is based on wxPython and is running successfully on Windows XP, Windows 7, Mac OS X, Ubuntu, Fedora, Linux Mint, Mandriva, Arch Linux and OpenSuse. This would not have been possible without a good cross-platform GUI toolkit and a helpful community to go with it. Good reference material has often proved essential as well and I look forward to putting this book to work in coming months.