BurningbirdI read Baron Schwartz’s recounting of his experience authoring O’Reilly’s High Performance MySQL with interest, and no little fascination. Having authored 17 computer books (or so, I begin to lose count), I can both empathize with some of the challenges he’s faced, while also wondering if I shouldn’t have been more demanding, at times. Wait a sec: I have […]
Painting the Web is now live on Kindle, and I downloaded a sample chapter. I ended up being pleasantly surprised at the figures. Though they are in grays, they’re large enough to be easily viewable, and nicely integrated into the text. It’s fun seeing your work in a new medium. Reminds me of the thrill I […]
Recovered from the Wayback Machine. For this week’s recap of Missouri news, I’m going to focus on one event that is both trivial and profound: the closure of 16 Starbucks in the St. Louis area. First, some context. Bob Sutor provides a link to a PDF listing all of the closures, nationally. Bill Greer at Off the Map […]
I had no idea that my book Painting the Web was going to be one of O’Reilly’s first batch of DRM-free eBooks. I was stunned to see it as one of the first 12 Kindle books O’Reilly has released. Painting the Web does make a nice ebook. I think the graphics are better in a […]
I received my Powerbook back from repair. Neither the Apple store guy nor I could decipher what was fixed on the machine. The parts list is as follows: SUBASSY, AP EXT/BT, 11CHNL,Q85 FLX CKT ASSY, BT,WIRELESS,PB15″ RETURN: Within Specifications PCBA,LIO/SOUND,PB15″ FLX CKT ASSY, SOUND,IO Q16C The returned item was the battery, as there was a […]