I have a few self-published books, all of them available at Leanpub. Here you can find short descriptions and links to their respective pages.
Publishing with Emacs, Org-mode and Leanpub
Publishing your words has never been easier than it is today. Blogging means you can have your words read by thousands of people within minutes of writing them. Even publishing a book has become considerably easier through self publishing. There are many tools and publishers that allow you to get started for little or no money. Still, getting started can be confusing, and that is what this book is about.
In this book, I will show you the workflow and tools I use to publish my books. The three main tools involved are:
- The GNU Emacs editor together with Org-mode for writing, editing and exporting your text;
- GitHub or Bitbucket to store your book files.
- Leanpub for typesetting, previewing, publishing and selling your work.
To illustrate the process and provide you with a starting point, the source repository for this book is available at https://github.com/zzamboni/emacs-org-leanpub. I am populating the repository live as I write this book.
Check it out, and happy writing!
Literate Config
This booklet will teach you about Literate Configuration, which is the application of Literate Programming to configuration files. Literate Programming can be especially applicable to configuration files for the following reasons:
- Configuration files are inherently focused, since they correspond to a single application, program or set of programs, all related. This makes it easier to draw a narrative for them;
- Most configuration files are self-contained but their structure and syntax may not be immediately evident, so they benefit from a human-readable explanation of their contents;
- Configuration files are often shared and read by others, as we all like to learn by reading the config files of other people. Applying Literate Programming to config files makes them much easier to share, since their explanation is naturally woven into the code.
Org-mode is a powerful and simple markup language for general writing, but with unique features that make it easy to include code within the text, and even further, to easily extract that code into stand-alone source files which can be interpreted by their corresponding programs.
Whether you already use Emacs and org-mode or not, you will find value in this book by seeing how uniquely Literate Programming can help you better write, maintain, understand and share your config files.
Utilerías de Unix
(this book is in Spanish)
¡Automatiza tus tareas e incrementa tu eficiencia! Este libro proporciona una introducción a algunos de los comandos más útiles en un sistema Unix/Linux, que te permiten realizar fácilmente tareas de todo tipo, desde la búsqueda de texto en un archivo hasta complejas operaciones de procesamiento, cálculo y extracción de datos.
Puedes obtener una muestra gratis y comprar el libro (¡tu eliges cuánto pagas!) en https://leanpub.com/utilerias-unix, o haz click en la imágen de la derecha.
Learning Hammerspoon
Automate all the things! From window manipulation to automated system settings depending on your current location, Hammerspoon makes it possible. In this book you will learn how to get started with Hammerspoon, how to use pre-made modules, and how to write your own, to achieve an unprecedented level of control over your Mac.
Learn more, read a free sample and get the book (you choose how much you pay!) at https://leanpub.com/learning-hammerspoon/, or click on the banner on the right.
Learning CFEngine
I am the author of “Learning CFEngine”, the best book for learning CFEngine.
The book has its own webpage at http://cf-learn.info, please visit it for more information, code samples, etc.
You can buy the book at https://leanpub.com/learning-cfengine or by clicking the link on the right.