I've had a couple of book reviews published now. It seemed appropriate to put them up here as well.

Russell Dyer's "MySQL in a Nutshell" - reviewed July 2005.

Karl Fogel's "Producing Open Source Software" - reviewed January 2006.

or you can go read the original published reviews over here:
Russell Dyer's "MySQL in a Nutshell"
Karl Fogel's "Producing Open Source Software"

The site the reviews were originally written for and published on is a bit obscure and not well known, so I've made a conscious point of linking to the originals to help boost her rankings and popularity.

I've done a couple of Book Reviews for the Groklaw website now. A few months back it seemed that it would be a Good Thing(tm) to pull that work together under my own site. Well I've finally got that together and put them up for the 2 of you who come here.

Where it existed, I've left Pamela's introduction in the text.

So here they are in all their glory. Such as it is.

Reviews

When I attended LinuxWorld in Boston, I met Russell Dyer in the press room. He was there for Unix Review, I believe. He was sitting right across the table from me, the table where all the journalists had their laptops hooked up to file their stories, and everyone was chatting and working simultaneously. I must say, it was quite impressive to see reporters laughing and kidding around and then read their very knowledgeable and fact-packed articles a few minutes later.

The other memorable thing was that when there was a fire alarm over the loudspeaker, none of them left the media room. Only I got up and dutifully played fire drill. A cynical bunch. And by the way, they were absolutely correct. There was never any real danger, as it turned out. I've wondered ever since at what point they might decide it was worthwhile to stop typing and get out of danger, but at the time, I was too shy to ask. All I could do was admire.

Karl Fogel's "Producing Open Source Software"
~ reviewed by Steve McInerney

Producing Open Source Software
How to Run a Successful Free Software Project
By Karl Fogel
First Edition October 2005 ISBN: 0-596-00759-0
http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/producingoss/

I chose to purchase this book as a bit of a wild card in my most recent technical-book-buying splurge. Additionally, as someone with three active GPL'd projects and bits 'n' pieces in others, I figured it might have something useful to say. Something useful it certainly does!