Since 2003, I’ve had a freelance relationship with O’Reilly Media, offering technical review services on a series of AI, Cloud, DevOps, macOS / Mac OS X, iOS, and Linux reference books.

Additionally, I authored some of the material for “Modern System Administration” with Jennifer Davis, published in 2022.

Titles I’ve worked on for O’Reilly include:

  1. Java in a Nutshell, 9th edition by Benjamin J. Evans, Jason R. Clark, David Flanagan (2026)
  2. Delightful Intelligence by Ramli John, C. Todd Lombardo and Michael Connors (2026)
  3. An Illustrated Guide to AI Agents by Maarten Grootendorst, Jay Alammar (2026)
  4. Data Management for AI and Agentic Systems by Michael Bachman (2025)
  5. Redefining OS Selection by Ned Bellavance, Chris Hayner (2025)
  6. Responsible Software Engineering by Daniel Barrett (2025)
  7. AI Gateways in the Enterprise by Christian Posta, Peter Jausovec (2025)
  8. Infrastructure as Code, 3rd Edition by Kief Morris (2024)
  9. Attack Surface Management by Ron Eddings, MJ Kaufmann (2025)
  10. Site to Site Connectivity with ngrok (2024)
  11. Designing Distributed Systems, 2nd Edition (2024)
  12. Terraform Cookbook by Kerim Satirli, Taylor Dolezal (2024)
  13. IT Necessities Report For A Distributed World by Ryan Bacon, Kim Crawley (2021)
  14. Learning Swift, 3rd Edition by Jonathon Manning, Paris Buttfield-Addison, Tim Nugent (2019)
  15. Modern Linux Administration (2019)
    • This title evolved into Modern System Administration (2022), for which I contributed some of the material, including the chapter on Storage management.
  16. Practical Artificial Intelligence with Swift by Mars Geldard, Jonathon Manning, Paris Buttfield-Addison, Tim Nugent (2019)
  17. Developing Open Cloud Native Microservices by Graham Charters, Sebastian Daschner, Pratik Patel, Steve Poole (2019)
  18. Laying the Groundwork for Cloud by Mark Preston (2018)
  19. Puppet Best Practices by Chris Barbour, Jo Rhett (2018)
  20. Load Balancing in the Cloud by Derek DeJonghe (2018)
  21. Continuous Delivery with Spinnaker by Emily Burns, Asher Feldman, Rob Fletcher, Tomas Lin, Justin Reynolds, Chris Sanden, Lars Wander, Rob Zienert (2018)
  22. Designing and Building a Hybrid Cloud by Philip Trautman (2018)
  23. The Service Mesh by George Miranda (2018)
  24. Learning Swift, 2nd Edition by Paris Buttfield-Addison, Tim Nugent, Jon Manning (2017)
  25. Extending Swift Value(s) to the Server by David Ungar, Robert Dickerson (2016)
  26. Learning Swift by Paris Buttfield-Addison, Jon Manning, Tim Nugent (2015)
  27. Swift Pocket Reference by Anthony Gray (2014)
  28. Swift Development with Cocoa by Paris Buttfield-Addison, Jonathon Manning, Tim Nugent (2014)
  29. Learning iOS Programming, 3rd Edition by Alasdair Allan (2014)
  30. Learning iOS Storyboard Programming by Wei Meng Lee (2013)
  31. Objective-C Pocket Reference, 2nd Edition (2012) [cancelled update to Objective-C Pocket Reference by Andrew Duncan, 2002)
  32. iOS 6 Programming Cookbook by Vandad Nahavandipoor (2012)
  33. Learning Cocoa with Objective-C, 3rd Edition by Paris Buttfield-Addison, Jonathon Manning (2012)
  34. Learning Perl, 4th edition by Randal L. Schwartz, Tom Phoenix, Brian D Foy (2005)
  35. Perl Best Practices by Damian Conway (2005)
  36. Learning Perl Objects, References, and Modules by Randal L. Schwartz, Tom Phoenix (2003)
  37. Perl Template Toolkit by Darren Chamberlain, Andy Wardley, David Cross (2003)

In addition, I was the assistant editor for the 2003 edition of the Using GCC manual for GNU Press and the Free Software Foundation, authored by Richard Stallman and the GCC Developer Community.