Mike Loukides

Biography

Mike Loukides is an editor for O'Reilly Media, Inc.. He is the author of System Performance Tuning and UNIX for FORTRAN Programmers. Mike's interests are system administration, networking, programming languages, and computer architecture. His academic background includes degrees in electrical engineering (B.S.) and English literature (Ph.D.).

Books

Unix Power Tools by Shelley Powers, Jerry Peek, Tim O'Reilly, Mike Loukides Third Edition October 2002 $69.95 USD (Read Reviews)	System Performance Tuning by Gian-Paolo D. Musumeci, Mike Loukides Second Edition February 2002 $39.95 USD (Read Reviews)
UNIX PowerTools by Jerry Peek, Tim O'Reilly, Mike Loukides Second Edition August 1997 OUT OF PRINT (Read Reviews)	Programming with GNU Software by Andy Oram, Mike Loukides December 1996 $39.95 USD (Read Reviews)
System Performance Tuning by Mike Loukides November 1990 OUT OF PRINT (Read Reviews)	UNIX Power Tools by Jerry Peek, Mike Loukides, Tim O'Reilly, et al. OUT OF PRINT
UNIX for FORTRAN Programmers by Mike Loukides OUT OF PRINT

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Where Web Services Are Going
Publish Date: May. 10, 2002WebLogic Workshop is the cornerstone of BEA's Web services strategy. We talk to BEA VP of enginnering Adam Bosworth about this product, Web services, and .NET. Will You See Open Source J2EE Implementations? Not Likely.
Publish Date: Feb. 13, 2002O'Reilly & Associates' senior Java editor Mike Loukides revisits the latest on Sun's positioning regarding open source J2EE and the hurdles open source projects like JBoss experience. Will You See Open Source J2EE Implementations?
Publish Date: Oct. 10, 2001O'Reilly & Associates' Executive Java Editor Mike Loukides looks at the state of open source J2EE and the hurdles open source projects like JBoss experience. He also wonders about Sun's current open source licensing policies regarding J2EE. What's Hot, and What's Not
Publish Date: Jun. 15, 2001O'Reilly Java editor Michael Loukides reports from Sun's JavaOne Conference, June 4 - 8, 2001 in San Francisco, California. Java and XML: A Vital New Book
Publish Date: Jun. 1, 2000Java series editor Mike Loukides tells why Brett McLaughlin's recently released book, Java and XML, is arguably the most important new book on Java this year. High Bit Rate MP3s: Are they Necessary?
Publish Date: Mar. 1, 2000O'Reilly editor and author Mike Loukides is an accomplished classical pianist who records with the MP3 format. He's recently been experimenting with high-bit-rate recordings. Here are his findings. Using Standard Input and Output
Publish Date: Feb. 24, 2000A quick review of basic redirection techniques used by every Unix guru. eval: When You Need Another Chance
Publish Date: Feb. 10, 2000Ever want to use a variable to get a variable in a shell script or to construct a command on the fly? Find out how in this excerpt from Unix Power Tools, 2nd Edition. The exec Command
Publish Date: Feb. 10, 2000There is more than one use for exec, learn a couple of new ones in this excerpt from Unix Power Tools, 2nd Edition. Some Thoughts on the Sun Community Source License
Publish Date: Mar. 1, 1999Is Java the best tool available for implementing the Open Source vision? In Some Thoughts on the Sun Community Source License Mike Loukides, O'Reilly's Java editor, discusses why he thinks it is. The Chameleon and the Virus: More Thoughts on Java's Community License
Publish Date: Mar. 1, 1999"It's a carrot, not a stick." That's how O'Reilly's Java editor Mike Loukides describes Java's new developer-friendly community license. Used properly, he thinks that Sun can entice developers to the Open Source model in droves. Looking Back on JavaOne, April 1998
Publish Date: Apr. 1, 1998Java Series Editor Mike Loukides spends some time looking back on JavaOne and thinking about Free Java? Free Java
Publish Date: Apr. 1, 1998Two weeks ago, Tim O'Reilly asked me whether I thought Sun ought to release a "free" (I guess the currently fashionable term is "open source") version of Java, like Netscape is doing with their browser. I told him that the idea was interesting, but Java was probably better off in Sun's control. Where Java Is Headed -- and Where O'Reilly Is Going
Publish Date: Mar. 1, 1998Find out Where java is headed -- and where O'Reilly is going from Java Series Editor Mike Loukides.

Blog

Another Invitation: Community Patent Review

January 25 2007

Andy Oram has been talking to some people who are interested in hiring Ruby developers for work on a patent reform project. Perhaps we should have a separate forum for job and project postings. read more

Translations: Invitation to a Project

January 23 2007

I just received this message from Brian McConnell. Brian is an O’Reilly author and blogger, and generally a smart guy. I didn’t know he was working in Rails–I’ve always thought of him as a Pythonista. Anyway, if you’re interested in this project, let him know. Description follows… > I am writing… read more

Translations: Invitation to a Project

January 23 2007

At last! Open Source Java

November 13 2006

It’s finally happened! Sun has released Java under an open source license. Not only that, they did it in the best possible way: using GPL version 2, not some bizarre concoction of their own. Congratulations to Jonathan Schwartz, James Gosling, and everyone else involved with this decision. What’s surprising, of course,… read more

Agile (or not) at Google

October 01 2006

Steve Yegge has a provocative blog about Agile methodologies. It’s vintage Steve: fun to read, cutting, opinionated; and, in many ways, largely right, I think. A couple of quick reactions: The one component of “agile programming” that’s very much part of Google’s culture is unit testing, and that’s always seemed… read more

Ridiculously Easy Distributed Computing

September 06 2006

I was going to write some more about DSLs, but I realized I had something more important to say. And nowhere near as verbose. Lucas Carlson (author of the Ruby Cookbook) has been doing some great stuff. Check out starfish. It’s a simple, easy-to-use, implementation of Google’s MapReduce for Ruby. It’s… read more

DSLs Rehashed Again

August 30 2006

About a month ago, there was a flurry of blogs and articles on what is, and what isn’t, a domain-specific language. I’m not sure who started it, but articles include Martin Fowler’s, Nutrun’s, and Jeremy Voorhis’. At the same time, I was having some interesting conversations about DSLs with Terence… read more

Hibernate 3.0 Shortcut out!

August 11 2006

We’ve just published Getting Started with Hibernate 3, by Jim Elliott. It’s the latest entry in our new series of Short Cuts: short PDFs that get you up and running quickly. Jim is a great author–he works fast, he’s easy to get along with, and he writes really well. Getting… read more

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