Jim Grisanzio

Monday Nov 02, 2009

Translating the OpenSolaris Bible: Japanese

There is an interesting discussion going on in the Japan OpenSolaris Community. Ken Okubo has been floating the idea of translating the OpenSolaris Bible into Japanese. The thread is getting long and it looks like there is some progress. Translating a book that is over a thousand pages long as a community project is a big deal. If you'd like to contribute, ping Ken on ug-jposug at opensolaris dot org. He's a good guy. Sign up to the JPOSUG list here.

Imagine how helpful it would be to get such a book localized into Japanese. It would be a fantastic community-building tool.

Nov 02, 2009

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Monday Oct 19, 2009

Pro OpenSolaris Book Review: USENIX Magazine

USENIX Magazine has a review of Pro OpenSolaris by Harry J. Foxwell and Christine Tran.

"As I mentioned, the chapters on ZFS and virtualization are incredibly strong, and I would certainly recommend this book to anyone interested in a Linux alternative with cutting-edge features and an active community base. "

-- Brandon Ching, ;LOGIN:

Oct 19, 2009

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Thursday Jul 09, 2009

ZFS: Practical use of virtualized file systems

Here's the cover for the new ZFS book in Japan by Hisayoshi Kato, Michitoshi Sato, Nagahara Niroharu, and Imai Satoshi -- ZFS 仮想化されたファイルシステムの徹底活用 (大型本). I have a copy here in the office. Pretty slick. The cover was just published on Amazon a few minute ago. I think it goes on sale next week. Please note: this is not a translation of a western text. It's an original work from OpenSolaris community engineers in Japan and only appears in Japanese.

Jul 09, 2009

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Sunday Jun 28, 2009

New ZFS Book Coming to Japan

Four members of the Japan OpenSolaris Community wrote a book on ZFS recently. It`s coming out in July, and it`s specifically for the Japanese market. The cover has not been selected yet, but here are the early details: ZFS 仮想化されたファイルシステムの徹底活用 (大型本) by Hisayoshi Kato, Michitoshi Sato, Nagahara Niroharu, and Imai Satoshi. This is quite a significant contribution to the community in Japan because it`s important to have technical content written by Japanese engineers for Japanese engineers. Translating English content from the west good, of course, but the generation of original content in Japanese also needs to be part of this community`s growth plans.

Here are some more books on OpenSolaris: http://blogs.sun.com/jimgris/tags/book

Jun 28, 2009

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Thursday Apr 23, 2009

Pro OpenSolaris

Very cool to see another book out there on OpenSolaris. This book is based on the OpenSolaris 2008.11 release and assumes readers are already familiar with the
user and development environments of Gnome and Linux. So, pick it up and get comfortable with OpenSolaris as well. The book list grows.

Congrats to Harry Foxwell and Christine Tran.

Apr 23, 2009

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Wednesday Jan 28, 2009

The OpenSolaris Bible from Wiley

Congratulations to Nicholas Solter, Jerry Jelinek, and David Miner!

Announcing the OpenSolaris Bible
Writing the OpenSolaris Bible
The Good(?) Book
OpenSolaris Bible Samples
Amazon

Jan 28, 2009

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Monday Oct 27, 2008

OpenSolaris Red Bible in China: 红宝书

via John Jiang on advocacy-discuss. Very cool to see a new book about OpenSolaris coming out in China. Just like the Japanese book last week, this new book in China ships with the OpenSolaris 2008.05 CD.

Oct 27, 2008

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Friday Oct 24, 2008

OpenSolaris Bible in Japan: スタートアップバイブル

There is a new book about OpenSolaris in Japan -- OpenSolaris スタートアップバイブル. That Japanese means Startup Bible. There's a CD in the back with OpenSolaris 2008.05, too. This is probably the first book on OpenSolaris in Japan. OpenSolaris in a bed of roses. Looks cool.

Oct 24, 2008

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Wednesday Jul 23, 2008

Solaris Book Author Coming to Japan

Solaris Application Programming author Darryl Gove will be in Japan on Friday to present at the Solaris Night Seminar in Tokyo. Hisayoshi Kato will also present. Key topic is DTrace.

Jul 23, 2008

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Monday Mar 31, 2008

New Book: Solaris Application Programming

Here's a new book from SMI press -- Solaris Application Programming. I got an autographed copy here in Japan a while back, and we gave it out at a recent user group meeting. Get your copy here.

Mar 31, 2008

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Wednesday Oct 13, 2004

Rich Teer on Slashdot

Our buddy Rich Teer finds himself on Slashdot today. Slashdot is featuring Teer's book, Solaris Systems Programming. Pretty darn nice review up there. So, congrats, Rich. All the best with the book.

Rich is also an active developer in the OpenSolaris Pilot Program we started a few weeks back. We're quite lucky to have him around, I'd say.

Oct 13, 2004

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