My writings

So far, I've written two books, but I may write more. I wrote the Cocoon Developer's Handbook with Jeremy Aston. It is widely regarded as the best of the various Cocoon books out there. Last year, I wrote Tomcat 5 Unleashed which has been getting great reviews. Recently (3/14/05) Brennan Stehling posted a review on his site and said:

"It is a great book and I am finally starting to learn how to use Tomcat properly. I have always been bothered by the default Tomcat configuration and how it holds deployed applications in the installation directory. Fortunately this book explains how to "productionalize" the Tomcat installation. ... There are over 700 pages of information in there and it seems every page it useful. ... This Tomcat book actually covers many topics which I could never understand by reading the documentation on the website.

Thanks Brennan! Read the rest of his review.

I've written some articles on various open source technologies:

My interest has increasingly turned to the open source movement, its impact on the technology industry and its future well-being. In January 2005, I published a three-part series on a dangerous trend I see in the open source movement, one in which the movement is slowly becoming dominated by a minority of corporate players. The series has three articles:

And I have other articles:

 
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