This morning I signed a contract to write another book for Apress. This book will also be about Linux but it will be different from my first book, The Linux Philosophy for SysAdmins. I cannot divulge more about it at…
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Hardcopy of “The Linux Philosophy for SysAdmins” now available
The author’s hard copies of my book, The Linux Philosophy for SysAdmins, showed up on my front porch yesterday. The hard copy does appear to be available at Apress and on-line at Barnes & Noble but not yet at Amazon. Amazon is showing availability in February…
“The Linux Philosophy for SysAdmins” is now available in electronic formats
My book, The Linux Philosophy for SysAdmins, is now available for purchase in epub formats on line at Apress and Amazon. The print version is coming soon.
Final book proofs finished
Today I finished a second round of proofs for my book. There were just a few things that needed more correction on the first set of proofs that I could not do with the web-based proofing system that my publisher…
Site problem solved
Due to some apparent data corruption in the MySQL database that stores the page and post content for this web site, the static pages were temporarily unable to be viewed. The data appeared to be there but it could not…
Working on book proofs
The Apress production team has sent me the link to the on-line proofing site for my book. I started working on these proofs today and they look very good with only a few very minor changes to be made. The…
About my Book – “The Linux Philosophy for SysAdmins”
The Linux Philosophy for SysAdmins ISBN 978-1-4842-3729-8 Apress Amazon Barnes and Noble Availability dates revised. Expected hardcopy availability, September 21, 2018 Expected ebook availability, September 21, 2018 Apress, my publisher, has sent pre-release information about my new book, “The Linux Philosophy…
“The Linux Philosophy for SysAdmins” has been sent to production
My new book, “The Linux Philosophy for SysAdmins” has been sent to production. The next step for me is reading the proofs to verify that everything has been translated onto the page as I intended. I am especially interested to see…
First draft complete
I have completed the first draft of my book and all of my 26 chapters have been submitted to my publisher. Of those chapters, 24 have already been reviewed by Ben Cotton, my technical reviewer, and revised as necessary. I have…
Book progress
I have been making good progress on my book. I am still ahead of schedule and expect to finish well ahead of the deadline. This project has been a lot of work, but the results will be well worth it. I…