Books
Author
Land The Tech Job You Love
(Pragmatic Bookshelf, June 2009): Author, 280 pages, ISBN: 978-1-93435-626
My book on how to find a job and get hired once you know what sort of job you're really looking for.
Contributor
Small Sharp Software Tools (Pragmatic Bookshelf, May 2019): Technical review
SQL Antipatterns (Pragmatic Bookshelf, 2011): Technical review
Mac OS X Tiger In A Nutshell (O'Reilly, 2005): Updates on entire book. Co-author credit.
Perl Best Practices
(O'Reilly, 2005): Technical reviewer
"I would like to express my
deepest gratitude... [t]o Andy Lester, for inspiring with his deep
understanding of, and passion for, the best coding practices." -- p. xxi
Pro Perl Debugging (Apress, 2005): Technical review and co-author/writing mentor
Pro Perl (Apress, 2005): Technical review
Mac OS X Panther In A Nutshell (O'Reilly, 2004): Updates to Unix command chapter
Code Complete, 2nd Edition (Microsoft Press, 2004): Technical review
Spidering Hacks (O'Reilly, 2003): Author of three articles
- Hack #21: WWW::Mechanize 101
- Hack #36: Downloading Images From Webshots
- Hack #44: Archiving Yahoo! Groups Messages With WWW::Yahoo::Groups
Google Hacks
(O'Reilly, 2003): Technical editor
"And to Andy Lester, our technical editor, goes much appreciation for his thorough nitpicking." -- p. xiii
Perl, CGI & JavaScript Complete, 2nd ed. (Sybex, 2003): Updated Perl sections for Perl 5.8
XML Primer Plus (Sams, 2002): Technical review
Teach Yourself Unix System Administration in 24 Hours (Sams, 2002): research, development & first draft for chapter 22, "Awk & Perl", plus technical review
Perl quick reference chart (Barcharts Inc., 2001): Technical review, and major rewrite
Unix Power Tools, 3rd ed. (O'Reilly, 2001): Technical reviewer for 10 chapters