Archives of #Writing A Book

Applied Parallel Computing at PyCon 2013 (March)

Minesh B. Amin (MBA Sciences) and I (Mor Consulting) are teaching Applied Parallel Computing at PyCon in San Jose in just over a month, here’s an outline of the tutorial. The conference is sold out but there’s still tickets for the tutorials (note that they’re selling quickly too). Typically a recording of the tutorial is […]

Encouraging Online Privacy

I’ve begun to think on the increasing need for improved online privacy. Once upon a time my mum’s communications didn’t occur on the Internet, now they routinely do. Once upon a time I had a reasonable idea about how secure my communications were, now it seems that governments are doing things like intercepting our SSL […]

How I’m writing The Screencasting Handbook

Many people have asked why I’m writing a book without a publisher.  The story has interested a bunch of people so I’ll outline the basics here. Update: there’s a related article by Marc-André Cournoyer covering how he wrote his “Create your own programming language” eBook. I started writing The Screencasting Handbook in the middle of […]