| Table of Contents In early 2000 my friend Chris DeMaria and I worked on a web site called Intercrap.com. Born of disgust with the excesses and wrong-headed thinking of the dot com boom, the site touched a nerve with other disenfranchised developers, and enjoyed a small following as the bottom fell out of the tech job market by the end of 2000. Our point had finally been made for us, and since we were scrambling for work ourselves the site was discontinued. It was my writing for Intercrap that eventually got me some work writing for Wired Publications, and my work for Wired led to work for Wrox Press. I find technical writing to be a rewarding process; I enjoy explaining how things work to other people, and the subject matter is such that you can usually count on your audience being actively interested in what you have to say. The mutual interest is good for both author and reader.  Professional PHP4 Multimedia Programming. Wrox Press Inc; ISBN: 1861007647; (August 2002) I wrote chapters 5 and 10, Manipulating Images with GD and Case Study: Using GD on WAP Sites and PDA, both dealing with PHP's powerful GD extension. After being introduced to the basic GD functions and their use in Chapter 5, the reader is walked through the creation of a WAP-enabled coffee shop finder application using the HAWHAW library. GD functions are used to generate rating graphics on the fly, and to convert color photographs into 1 bit, cellphone friendly WBMP graphics. I also contributed appendix H, Setting Up Palm Desktop, POSE, and AvantGo on a Windows Desktop which shows developers without PalmOS hardware how they can set up an effective PDA development environment using the Palm OS Emulator (POSE). Professional PHP4 Multimedia has received a five out of five star rating at Amazon.com based on seven reader reviews.
In addition to my writing for Wrox Press I have done technical review for the above Wrox title. This is not editorial work; rather, it consists of making sure technical explanations and code examples are accurate and functional, and suggesting additional items for further clarification. This web page was generated from a DocBook XML source document using Saxon. [Printer-friendly Version] |
