Okay, then.
Feb. 4th, 2002 05:10 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
progBacked by unanimous opinion of friends and family, I verbally agreed to take on the book today. Here we go. Chuck lent me a couple of other books to read as homework, along with my assignment to spruce up the outline draft he's already made.
I asked for the story leading up to his tapping me for this, and heard lots of fun history and politics about this corner of the ORA machine. Beyond being unseemly of me to describe it in a public venue, it would probably bore you. (And if you're a close friend you're doomed to hear me bring it up at some point anyway.) As to why he chose me in particular, he knew I was a Mac user and a blathersome hacker and had some free time on my hands, but more interestingly, I seem to be the second choice -- the first prospective author didn't want to go into any of the underlying Unix stuff at all, which is, really, the Wrong Answer. Curiously, this particular author had written the O'Reilly book that got me back into programming, many years ago. So turns the wheel, la la.
I asked for the story leading up to his tapping me for this, and heard lots of fun history and politics about this corner of the ORA machine. Beyond being unseemly of me to describe it in a public venue, it would probably bore you. (And if you're a close friend you're doomed to hear me bring it up at some point anyway.) As to why he chose me in particular, he knew I was a Mac user and a blathersome hacker and had some free time on my hands, but more interestingly, I seem to be the second choice -- the first prospective author didn't want to go into any of the underlying Unix stuff at all, which is, really, the Wrong Answer. Curiously, this particular author had written the O'Reilly book that got me back into programming, many years ago. So turns the wheel, la la.