Mike Stok's Publishing Activity

I have given presentations at user groups and meetups, written articles for various publications, and reviewed the technical content of manuscripts of books for several publishing companies. They give an idea of some of my interests at various points in time.

Writing

These are some published articles and published 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.
  (local copy of the whole issue)
• “Ruby's Present and Future” OnLamp, December 2003
  a review of the 3^rd International Ruby Conference for O'Reilly

Books Reviewed

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
• Hello! Python, Anthony S. Briggs, 2012
• MacRuby in Action, Brendan G. Lim, Jerry Cheung, and Jeremy McAnally, 2012
• iOS in Practice, Bear Cahill, 2013

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 Activities

The Perl Journal, a technical editor: Issue 1 to Issue 13 (1996 to 1999)