Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: Larry Wall, Randal L. Schwartz, Paul Graham, David Pogue, Jonathan Oxer, Kathy Sierra, Adam C. Engst, Danny Goodman, Tom Christiansen, Dave Cross, Brian D Foy, Simon Cozens, J. D. Frazer, Rael Dornfest, Allison Randal, Shelley Powers, Nathan Torkington, Tara Calishain. Excerpt: Adam Engst Adam C. Engst (born November 18, 1967) is a technology writer and publisher who resides in Ithaca, New York, United States where he was born and went to college at Cornell University . Engst is notably the publisher of TidBITS ], one of the oldest Internet -based email newsletters, which is distributed weekly to tens of thousands of readers. He has also written many technical books, including the best-selling Internet Starter Kit series in the 1990s, books on Eudora and iPhoto, and magazine articles for MacUser, MacWEEK, and Macworld . Adam is the publisher of the Take Control book series; his wife, Tonya Engst, is the editor in chief of the series. Engst is well known for his interest and support of the Macintosh community, repeatedly ranking in the top five in the annual MDJ Power 25 survey of the most influential people in the Macintosh ecosystem. He is particularly proud of the fact that he is one of the few industry figures who has been turned into an action figure . Selected bibliography Websites (URLs online) A hyperlinked version of this chapter is at Allison Randal Allison Randal is a linguist, software developer and author. She is the chief architect of the Parrot virtual machine, a member of the board of directors for The Perl Foundation, and the Chairman of the Parrot Foundation . She is also the lead developer of Punie . She is co-author of Perl 6 and Parrot Essentials and the Synopses of Perl 6. She is employed by O'Reilly Media . Websites (URLs online) ...
