Category: Book News

  • 2003 Waterside Conference starts today

    We’re kicking off our thirteenth annual publishing conference at the Radisson in the Berkeley marina today. It’s been a tough couple of years in the computer-book publishing industry, so I’m glad that so many people have decided to turn out for the event. It may be our lineup of speakers this year that are bringing…

  • One geek to rule them all

    Starting off with free email newsletters and a curious brand name, Chris Pirillo has emerged as enfantrepreneur terrible on the web scene. After traditional publishing companies and venture driven ghastlies dumped megabucks pursuing the e-book millennium during the dotcom folly, the word among publishers and authors these days is that e-publishing turned out to be…

  • Don't buy this book

    Doing a little ego-surfing the other day I found my name on an unfamiliar blog. Turns out it was an item listing books about blogging with a link to my (since-canceled) book. (Note: the title was going to be The Hidden Power of Blogging, not The Hidden Power of Blogs, but whatever.) It seems that…

  • William Gibson gets a blog

    William Gibson, influential writer of speculative fiction (sci-fi to the genrists), has a somewhat ironically neo-Luddite reputation but added a blog to his official site yesterday and promises to post there nearly daily. For some reason, the main page currently shows the first entry and not today’s, the second, in which a discussion of his…

  • Shacker and Shadovitz at MacWorld

    Scot sez: Reminder for anyone hitting MacWorld SF: I’ll be delivering a segment of the two-day Dreamweaver conference: The Whole OS X Web Development System — a poor title — the session will be about setting up OS X as a PHP/MySQL web database application development platform. 2:15 Tuesday, Room 120 I sometimes forget to…

  • Missing files from Savvy CD uploaded to website

    Eagle-eyed readers have notified me of a couple more files for the Chapter 6 tutorials missing from the CD-ROM included with the book. I’ve uploaded them to the Dreamweaver Savvy website. This makes three missing PNGs: photo.png flower.png makecommand.png There are also permanent links to these files in the right-hand column of the website home…