750-word article for Association for Computing Machinery.
A news report on the Privacy Identity Innovation conference in Menlo Park, November 2011, which focused largely on how social media are changing the landscape…...
1700-word article for Association for Computing Machinery.
A review of Asia's recent ascendency in the Top500 list of the world's leading supercomputers, and the supercomputing field generally....
60-minute presentation for New Media Consortium.
One-hour, live presentation to The New Media Consortium (NMC), which helps educational organizations learn about new media and new technologies....
575-word article for Association for Computing Machinery.
Reporting on a three-day conference about technology policy. This was my biggest case of preparation overkill: 12,000 words of notes went into a 575-word article....
7500-word corporate asset/white paper for Acquia.
White paper to help clients define strategies and tactics for moving their web site to the content-management system Drupal....
26000-word user manual for Intego.
A bottom-up rewrite of the previous version's manual....
3500-word corporate asset for Intego.
Adaptation of a user manual to act as a guide to potential software reviewers....
2000-word article for Peachpit Press.
Article written for the publisher of my book, Drupal 7: Visual QuickStart Guide. I wrote it at a time when Drupal 7 seemed primed for…...
1300-word article for Association for Computing Machinery.
Feature story about sensors to monitor energy consumption and other environmental data in residences. (Published in Communications of the ACM.)...
10000-word user manual for Intego.
Took user manuals in Microsoft Word format and adapted them for online reading, which included new screen shots and some reorganization of material. The four…...
10000-word corporate asset/white paper for Mediacurrent, Phase2 Technology.
White paper that explores Drupal as an online publishing system for newspapers and magazines....
14000-word user manual for Intego.
Adaptation of a manual for a Paris-based computer security company, with all-new screenshots and some new writing....
600-word article for Association for Computing Machinery.
News story about the Association for Computing Machinery's expansion into China. (Published in Communications of the ACM.)...
10000-word user manual for Bsecure.
Adaptation of a previous manual, with all-new screenshots and some new writing....
2500-word user manual for Panda Security.
Adaptation of a previous manual, with all-new screenshots and some new writing....
50000-word book for Peachpit Press.
A how-to book for Drupal beginners. I started writing it in 2009, then shelved it, then revised extensively in late 2010 as the pre-release software…...
1550-word article for Peachpit Press.
This article compares the three CMSes in terms of user base, code maturity, richness of plug-ins, and business acceptance. Commissioned by Peachpit Press to support…...