My So-Called Blog

Here’s a list of the books to which I’ve contributed in one way or another:

As an author:

• HTML 4.01 Programmer’s Reference - Wrox Press, 2001
• Professional JavaScript, 2^nd Edition - Wrox Press, 2001
• Constructing Usable Shopping Carts - glasshaus, 2002 (reprinted 2004)
• Professional PHP 4 Web Development Solutions - Wrox Press, 2002
• Usable Forms for the Web - glasshaus, 2003
• Constructing Usable Web Menus - glasshaus, 2003
• Professional PHP Web Services - Wrox Press, 2003
• MySQL Database Design and Optimization - Apress, 2004
• PHP 5 Recipes: A Problem-Solution Approach - Apress, 2005
• MySQL Administrator’s Guide and Language Reference, 2^nd Edition - MySQL Press, 2006

As a technical reviewer:

• Professional JavaScript (1^st edition) - Wrox Press, 1999
• Beginning Visual Basic 6 Application Development - Wrox Press, 1999
• Beginning JavaScript (1^st edition) - Wrox Press, 2000
• JavaScript Programmer’s Reference - Wrox Press, 2000
• Professional Java Data - Wrox Press, 2001
• Foundation JavaScript - friendsofed, 2001
• Professional PHP 4 XML - Wrox Press, 2002
• The Web Professional’s Handbook - glasshaus, 2002
• Beginning Databases with MySQL - Wrox Press, 2002
• Professional PHP 4 Multimedia Programming - Wrox Press, 2002
• PHP MySQL Website Programming: Problem - Design - Solution - Wrox Press, 2003
• DOM Scripting: Web Design with JavaScript and the Document Object Model - FriendsOfEd, 2005
• Beginning JavaScript with DOM Scripting and Ajax - Apress, 2006

I also wrote the Partitioning and Event Scheduler chapters of the MySQL 5.1 Manual, as well as large portions of the MySQL Cluster chapter that appears in all three versions of the MySQL Manual.

Upcoming Projects:

• A new edition of MySQL Database Design and Optimization for Apress
• A MySQL Cluster Certification Study Guide for MySQL AB/MySQL Press

Both of these are slated for publication in 2007.

Historical Oddities:

There’s a book called Usable Web Interface Components listed on Amazon. I started writing it for Apress in 2004, but it was never published; that project was shelved in favour of MySQL Database Design and Optimization.

I also edited a book on the stock market, Mastering Micro-Caps, in 2002.