Tim O'Reilly is a total stud. The founder of O'Reilly and Associates — publishers of the world's greatest technical books, and conveners of the world's greatest technical conentions — Tim got his start writing a bio of Dune-author Frank Herbert, then went on to write the first Unix user-manual. O'Reilly and Associates are a real writer-friendly press, and Tim himself is a polemicist of the first water. Now, Tim has collected in one place every article, book, review and interview he's ever done. Kick ass. Link Discuss (via Meerkat)
Tim O'Reilly is a total
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