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description = "Personal site, various development focused ramblings by a Microsoft developer"
description = "Articles about web development, engineering leadership, and some random personal ramblings"

homeSubtitle = "Personal site, various development focused ramblings by a Microsoft developer"
homeSubtitle = "Articles about web development, engineering leadership, and some random personal ramblings"

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date: 2020-09-19T16:37:17-08:00
title: Books, Articles and other Publications
description: Definitely an incomplete list of everything I've written
description: A list of writing on technical and gaming topics. Definitely incomplete, and some links are broken, but I tried to add as much as I could track down
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Back when I was living in Canada, before I started working at Microsoft, I discovered that I really enjoyed writing. I was doing a lot of developer training, travelling around the US and Canada teaching week long courses covering Access, Visual Basic, Architecture, SQL, and more. I started to reach out to some publishers, pitching some technical book ideas and getting a few chapter and book assignments sent back to me from various places. I ended up writing a few books, but I eventually moved teams at Microsoft and took a job as a full-time writer. I would write small articles, explaining a concept, going through the code, and hopefully inspiring some folks to try it out for themselves. I don't know how many articles I've written, but I do know that I used to try to write 1-2 a week. At the same time, I was actively blogging (first on a site called blogs.msdn.com, but eventually moving to my own domain), with a similar focus on coding concepts, sample code and a ton of link sharing. Other than internal documents, this blog is my only real writing these days. I come up with book ideas from time to time, and I have many article ideas, but the combination of writing on my own property and not having to commit to something as large as a book means that a blog post every month or so is just about right.

My most recent print publication was a single 'article' in the book "[97 Things Every Cloud Engineer Should Know](https://www.oreilly.com/library/view/97-things-every/9781492076728/)", a quick intro to the idea of scalability.

## Books

As I mentioned, I was involved in a lot of books, and I don't have a full recollection of them all. I would receive a copy of every book, sometimes one in every language it was translated to, but I recently decided there wasn't a lot of reason to keep them around and I took a few boxes of them into a local used bookstore. Hopefully they weren't so old that no one will find them useful. Doing a bit of internet sleuthing, here is a list of the books I've written, starting with the most recent.
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