When I buy anything over about fifty bucks, or something special even less, I tend to write a detailed review on it, and post them over on my review site I Tried That. Scope it out! You’ll find reviews of travel, tech gear, low-tech appliances, and more.
I’ve occasionally been asked about my writing process. Of course every writer writes differently. Working on an article for Oracle Java Magazine, I had occasion to reflect on my writing process. My hope in putting this down in words is that it might, possibly, help one writer somewhere, sometime, …
I've just completed a rewrite of Learning Tree's course 936, Building Modern Java Enterprise Apps: JPA, EJB3, JSF, & AJAX. Details at https://learningtree.com/courses/936 There's a lot that goes into creating one of these courses: instructional design aspects, writing slide, preparing exercises …
I've taken to using asciidoctor as my #1 writing tool lately.
It's free, it's open source, and it's fast. Check out their web page to see how easy it can be to use.
If you really need a GUI tool, there the strangely-name AsciiDocFX editor.
They say it's 2015. I'm still here, writing, teaching, learning to live
without my son,
and trying to get out more.
My colleague in communications, Jason Brittain, has finished revising Tomcat: The Definitive Guide. The Second Edition was just released (October/November, 2007) and covers Tomcat 6.0. Coverage has been expanded in almost all areas; the first edition's 295 pages are dwarfed by the second's 462 …
O'Reilly Media has published my first e-book, Checking Java Programs with Open Source Tools! You can read a bit about it on my little site or you can go direct to the O'Reilly site (the book sells for less than US0; how can you resist?).
Tim O'Reilly knows tech books better than probably anybody else on the planet. His book sales analysis really track what is happening in tech. And he notes that Java book sales are up by 5% (of the total market, not of previous Java sales) over the last year. Better check this out before you think …
My onJava.com article tries to get people interested in some of the new things happening in Java-land
The Second Edition of my Java Cookbook went to the printers yesterday, after a lot of rewriting. I'm really looking forward to having this revised edition available!