Daniel J. Barrett

Daniel J. Barrett
Born	1963 (age 61–62) United States
Occupation	writer software engineer
Alma mater	University of Pennsylvania Johns Hopkins University University of Massachusetts Amherst
Genre	technology music
Subject	Linux internet macOS MediaWiki security Amiga OS progressive rock
Years active	1992–present
Spouse	Lisa Feldman Barrett
Website
danieljbarrett.com

Daniel J. Barrett is a writer, software engineer, musician, and author of technology books.

Career

Writing

Barrett has written a number of technical books on computer topics. The most well-known are Linux Pocket Guide ^[1] and SSH, The Secure Shell: The Definitive Guide. ^{[2] [3]} His books have been translated into Chinese, Czech, French, German, Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, and Spanish.

Corporate use of MediaWiki

Barrett, author of the book MediaWiki ( ISBN   978-0-596-51979-7), ^[4] has received media coverage for his deployment of MediaWiki in corporate environments. ^{[5] [6] [7] [8] [9] [10]}

Gentle Giant

Barrett has been active in the resurgence of 1970s progressive rock band Gentle Giant from the 1990s onward. He created the official Gentle Giant Home Page in 1994, ^[11] and though it began as a fan site, it was adopted by the band and is listed as the "Official Gentle Giant website" on the band's CD re-releases. ^[12]

In 1996, Barrett compiled a 2-CD set of their songs for PolyGram entitled Edge of Twilight. ^[13] Later, he also helped to coordinate the creation of the boxed sets Under Construction and Unburied Treasure.

In 1988, Barrett wrote and recorded the song "Find the Longest Path," a parody incorporating an NP-complete problem in computer science and the frustrations of graduate school. It has been played at mathematics conferences, ^[14] incorporated into several YouTube videos by other people, ^{[15] [16]} and independently performed by a choral ensemble at ACM SIGCSE 2013. ^[17] Computer scientist Robert Sedgewick ends his algorithms course on Coursera with this song.

Bibliography

• Barrett, Daniel J., Bandits on the Information Superhighway, 1996, ISBN   1-56592-156-9.
• Barrett, Daniel J., NetResearch: Finding Information Online, 1997, ISBN   1-56592-245-X.
• Barrett, Daniel J., Polylingual Systems: An Approach to Seamless Interoperability, Doctoral dissertation, University of Massachusetts Amherst, February 1998.
• Barrett, Daniel J., and Silverman, Richard E., SSH, The Secure Shell: The Definitive Guide, 2001, ISBN   0-596-00011-1.
• Barrett, Daniel J., Silverman, Richard E., Byrnes, Robert A., Linux Security Cookbook, 2003, ISBN   0-596-00391-9.
• Barrett, Daniel J., Linux Pocket Guide, 2004, ISBN   0-596-00628-4.
• Barrett, Daniel J., Silverman, Richard E., Byrnes, Robert A., SSH, The Secure Shell: The Definitive Guide, Second Edition, 2005, ISBN   0-596-00895-3.
• Barrett, Daniel J., MediaWiki, October 2008, ISBN   978-0-596-51979-7.
• Barrett, Daniel J., Linux Pocket Guide, Second Edition, March 2012, ISBN   1-4493-1669-7.
• Barrett, Daniel J., Macintosh Terminal Pocket Guide, June 2012, ISBN   1-4493-2834-2.
• Barrett, Daniel J., Linux Pocket Guide, Third Edition, June 2016, ISBN   1-4919-2757-7.
• Barrett, Daniel J., Efficient Linux at the Command Line, March 2022, ISBN   978-1-098-11340-7.
• Barrett, Daniel J., Linux Pocket Guide, Fourth Edition, March 2024, ISBN   978-1-098-15796-8.
• Barrett, Daniel J., Responsible Software Engineering, in preparation. ISBN   978-1-098-14915-4.

References

1. USA Linux Users Group, Book Review: Linux Pocket Guide Archived 2010-06-20 at the Wayback Machine
2. Unix Review, Review by Ben Rothke
3. Review by Danny Yee
4. Review by Danny Yee
5. "VistaWiki – Example of Enterprise 2.0 Knowledge Sharing" Archived 2010-01-30 at the Wayback Machine on The App Gap, April 8, 2009
6. "Another Enterprise 2.0 Knowledge Sharing Success Story - VistaWiki" on Bill Ives's "Portals and KM" blog, April 29, 2009
7. "Case Study: VistaPrint's Wiki Way" Archived 2011-10-06 at the Wayback Machine , Training Magazine, September 30, 2009
8. "Are you ready for a wiki?" Archived 2010-11-14 at the Wayback Machine , cover story, "Northeast Executive"] Archived 2009-12-08 at the Wayback Machine , October 2009
9. McAfee, Andrew. Enterprise 2.0: New Collaborative Tools for Your Organization's Toughest Challenges. Harvard Business School Press, 2009
10. "Implementing Enterprise 2.0 at Vistaprint", Cloud Ave, March 3, 2010
11. "Untangling nets and webs," Q , November 1975, page 191.
12. Gentle Giant's "35th anniversary" CD releases from DRT Entertainment, 2005, including Free Hand , The Power and the Glory , and others.
13. Liner notes, Edge of Twilight, Vertigo 534 101-2.
14. "About the song "Find the Longest Path"". Archived from the original on 2010-03-04. Retrieved 2010-06-06.
15. YouTube video of "Find the Longest Path"
16. YouTube video of "Find the Longest Path"
17. "The Longest Path" performance at SIGCSE on March 13, 2013