Daniel J. Barrett

Daniel J. Barrett (born 1963) is a writer,[1][2] software engineer,[3][4] and musician.[5] He is best known for his technology books, his work with progressive rock band Gentle Giant,[6] and the imaginary computer game BLAZEMONGER.

Writing

Barrett has written a number of technical books on computer topics. The most well-known are Linux Pocket Guide[7] and SSH, The Secure Shell: The Definitive Guide.[8][9] His books have been translated into Czech, French, German, Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Mandarin, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, and Spanish.

Corporate use of MediaWiki

Barrett, author of the book MediaWiki (ISBN 978-0-596-51979-7),[10] has received media coverage for his deployment of MediaWiki in corporate environments.[11][12][13][14][15][16]

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,[17] 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.[18]

In 1996, Barrett compiled a 2-CD set of their songs for PolyGram entitled Edge of Twilight.[19]

Humor

In the 1990s, Barrett created the concept of BLAZEMONGER,[20] an imaginary computer game that spoofed the computing industry, and wrote approximately 100 articles about it.

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,[21] incorporated into several YouTube videos by other people,[22][23] and independently performed by a choral ensemble at ACM SIGCSE 2013.[24] Computer scientist Robert Sedgewick ends his algorithms course on Coursera with this song.

Bibliography

Translations

Bandits on the Information Superhighway:

NetResearch: Finding Information Online:

SSH, the Secure Shell: The Definitive Guide:

Linux Security Cookbook:

Linux Pocket Guide:

MediaWiki:

References

  1. Amazon author page
  2. LibraryThing
  3. "Are you ready for a wiki?", cover story, Northeast Executive, October 2009
  4. Barrett, L.F. & Barrett, D. "An Introduction to Computerized Experience Sampling in Psychology", Social Science Computer Review, Vol. 19, No. 2, 175-185 (2001)
  5. Giant Tracks album page
  6. About the Gentle Giant Home Page
  7. USA Linux Users Group, Book Review: Linux Pocket Guide
  8. Unix Review, Review by Ben Rothke
  9. Review by Danny Yee
  10. Review by Danny Yee
  11. "VistaWiki – Example of Enterprise 2.0 Knowledge Sharing" on The App Gap, April 8, 2009
  12. "Another Enterprise 2.0 Knowledge Sharing Success Story - VistaWiki" on Bill Ives's "Portals and KM" blog, April 29, 2009
  13. "Case Study: VistaPrint's Wiki Way", Training Magazine, September 30, 2009
  14. "Are you ready for a wiki?", cover story, Northeast Executive, October 2009
  15. McAfee, Andrew. Enterprise 2.0: New Collaborative Tools for Your Organization's Toughest Challenges. Harvard Business School Press, 2009
  16. "Implementing Enterprise 2.0 at Vistaprint", Cloud Ave, March 3, 2010
  17. "Untangling nets and webs," Q, November 1975, page 191.
  18. Gentle Giant's "35th anniversary" CD releases from DRT Entertainment, 2005, including Free Hand, The Power and the Glory, and others.
  19. Liner notes, Edge of Twilight, Vertigo 534 101-2.
  20. First BLAZEMONGER article, December 8, 1990. Note that "BLAZEMONGER" is always written in all capital letters.
  21. About the song "Find the Longest Path"
  22. YouTube video of "Find the Longest Path"
  23. YouTube video of "Find the Longest Path"
  24. "The Longest Path" performance at SIGCSE on March 13, 2013
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