Mike Stok's Publishing Activity

Introduction:

I have written a couple of articles for various publications, and I have reviewed the technical content of manuscripts of several books for several publishing companies.

Articles:

These are articles and reviews which I have written.

• "A Subjective Look at Object Oriented Programming." The Perl Journal, Volume 1 Issue 4, Winter 1996, pp. 3-9.
• "Perl: The Programmer's Companion" (review). The Perl Journal, Vol. 4, No. 2, Summer 1999, pp. 35.
• "Delightful Languages: Ruby" The Perl Review, Volume 0 Issue 6, November 2002, pp. 7 - 17. http://www.theperlreview.com/Issues/The_Perl_Review_0_6.pdf
• "Ruby's Present and Future" OnLamp, December 2003 http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/onlamp/2003/12/18/ruby_con.html

Books:

These are published books which I have helped with, grouped by publisher. In most cases I reviewed the entire manuscript for technical content, but in a few I was merely a stout friend or annoying nit-picker. I have reviewed several books which never made it to publication; they are not included here.

O'Reilly & Associates

• Programming Perl (2^nd edition), Larry Wall, Tom Christiansen & Randal L. Schwartz, 1996
• Mastering Regular Expressions, Jeffrey E. F. Friedl, 1997
• Advanced Perl Programming, Sriram Srinivasan, 1997
• Perl Cookbook, Tom Christiansen & Nathan Torkington, 1998
• Writing Apache Modules with Perl and C, By Lincoln Stein & Doug MacEachern, 1999
• Mastering Algorithms with Perl, By Jon Orwant, Jarkko Hietaniemi & John Macdonald, 1999
• Perl for Systems Administration, David N. Blank-Edelman, 2000
• Perl & XML, Erik T. Ray and Jason McIntosh, 2002
• Embedding Perl in HTML with Mason, Dave Rolsky & Ken Williams, 2002
• Learning Perl Objects, References, and Modules, Randal Schwartz, 2003
• Perl Cookbook (2^nd edition), Tom Christiansen & Nathan Torkington, 2003
• Perl Best Practices, Damian Conway, 2005
• Automating System Administration with Perl, Second Edition, David N. Blank-Edelman, 2009

The Pragmatic Programmers

• Pragmatic Version Control, Andrew Hunt & David Thomas, 2003
• Pragmatic Unit Testing, Andrew Hunt & David Thomas, 2003
• Data Crunching, Greg Wilson, 2005
• Behind Closed Doors - Secrets of Great Management, Johanna Rothman and Esther Derby, 2005
• Agile Retrospectives - Making Good Teams Great, Esther Derby and Diana Larsen, 2006
• Practices of an Agile Developer, Venkat Subramaniam and Andy Hunt, 2006
• Interface Oriented Design, Ken Pugh, 2006

Addison Wesley

• Design Patterns in Ruby, Russ Olsen, 2007

Manning

• Data Munging with Perl, David Cross, 2001
• wxPython in Action, Noel Rappin and Robin Dunn, 2006
• Ruby in Practice, Jeremy MacAnally and Assaf Arkin, 2009
• The Well-Grounded Rubyist, David A. Black, 2009

The Waite Group

• Perl 5 Interactive Course, Jon Orwant, 1998

Sams

• The Ruby Way, Hal Fulton, 2001

McGraw-Hill

• Perl Annotated Archives, Martin Brown, 1999

Wiley Computer Publishing

• The CGI/Perl Cookbook, Matthew Wright, 1997

Prentice Hall International

• Mathematical Programs in BBC Basic, Alan Whittle, 1985

Other:

The Perl Journal, a technical editor: Issue 1 to Issue 13