Philip Greenspun
Author of Philip and Alex's Guide to Web Publishing
About the Author
Philip Greenspun teaches at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and is the author of five books, "mostly on horrifyingly dull technical subjects." Greenspun is the founder of ArsDigita Corporation, an open-source software company, and ArsDigita University, a tuition-free post-baccalaureate show more computer science program. Greenspun was born in 1963 and raised in Bethesda, Maryland. He lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts, with Alex, his Samoyed, and Pi goddess Eve Andersson, who takes care of them both. 050 show less
Image credit: Elsa Dorfman, http://elsa.photo.net/philip-and-alex.jpg
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- Other names
- Greenspun, Philip Gittes
- Birthdate
- 1963-09-28
- Gender
- male
- Education
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology
- Occupations
- computer scientist
computer forensics specialist
software engineer - Organizations
- Hewlett Packard Research Labs
Symbolics
ICAD
photo.net
ArsDigita Corporation
LUSENET (show all 13)
Hearst Corporation
Comair
East Coast Aero Club
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Isosonics Corporation
ConSolve Incorporated
Fair Weather Flying LLC - Nationality
- USA
- Birthplace
- Bethesda, Maryland, USA
- Associated Place (for map)
- Maryland, USA
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Perhaps the greatest technical book I have ever read. Greenspun's ideas are well-formulated, and ever-so-well presented.
Also offered as a free download from his website, photo.net, the book is a treasure trove of information from the early years of the internet boom, and is lovingly garnered with dozens of professional photographs, taken by the author. Excellent work, if a little niche.
Also offered as a free download from his website, photo.net, the book is a treasure trove of information from the early years of the internet boom, and is lovingly garnered with dozens of professional photographs, taken by the author. Excellent work, if a little niche.
Very much before it's time, this book looks at database-based web publishing and presents a philosophy that was "Web 2.0" before Web 2.0 really existed. I wish I'd known enough programming to make real use of this book when I got it. Beautiful photography as well.
This was an odd combination between a coffee table web development book.
Greenspun had his head on straight in the high-flying late 90's, and some of his advice is still useful today.
His use of AOLServer made some of his lessons useful immediately, but that didn't affect the points he was trying to get across.
Greenspun had his head on straight in the high-flying late 90's, and some of his advice is still useful today.
His use of AOLServer made some of his lessons useful immediately, but that didn't affect the points he was trying to get across.
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