We’ve settled on the covert art – a retro 50’s robot – and the cover copy, and I’ve almost completed the page proofs (only have the games chapter left). This means that the book is only weeks away from being completed, and about a month away from being published and in the distribution channels. And,
We’re very, very close to shipping off Learning Unix for Mac OS X Panther to the printers, after my co-author Brian Jepson and I finished going through the entire manuscript PDF with a fine-tooth comb. A number of glitches — all ironed out, of course — and this book is really going to be a
If you’re already delving into the exciting new world of Panther, the 10.3 release of Mac OS X, then you’ll want to know that Apple’s released a security update for the Terminal.app program itself, as detailed:
Security Update 2003-11-04 addresses a potential vulnerability with the Terminal application in Mac OS X v10.3 and Mac OS X Server v10.3 that could allow unauthorized access to a system.
A common tool people use for managing spam is SpamAssassin, and if you are using it, or just interested in learning more, you’ll want to check out my new Guide to Writing your own Add-On Rules for SpamAssassin.
And if Apple ships the latest version of Mac OS X, 10.3, on 24 October (just a few weeks away!) you can bet that the Panther version of “Learning Unix for Mac OS X” isn’t too far behind. It’s worth noting that we have made quite substantial revisions and updates to the book, including structural changes, replacing some chapters with more interesting material, and not a page has gotten by unchanged.
A reader writes:
Can one develop a web site for e-commerce that utilizes a shopping cart function and credit card processing without the use of JavaScript? Perhaps this question is addressed later in portions of the book I haven’t gotten to yet.
The Mad Hatter project at Sun should prove to be a real boon to Solaris users worldwide, particularly those who hate the transition from Windows or Macs to the more bare-bones CDE environment. Yes, I talk at length in Solaris 9 for Dummies about the transition from CDE to GNOME as a desktop environment for Solaris, but the Mad Hatter project definitely goes further than just a standard GNOME configuration.
For those of you who have read my book Creating Cool HTML 4.01 Web Pages, or any of its five previous editions, I’m starting to sketch out the contents of the next major revision of this title and would be delighted for any reader feedback. Specifically: what did you like the best? What did you think was the most confusing? What topics did you feel were covered insufficiently? Did you feel like you had to get another HTML/CSS/JavaScript/Graphics book to finish your site?
