Hi, you have reached the home page of Stixen Enterprises, run by Rick Stones.
I live in Groby, a village on the north west outskirts of Leicester in the UK. Leicester is a very nice place to live, it's about a hundred miles north of London, with some very nice countryside, and plenty of pleasant pubs selling real ale. It's also very handy for commuting, close to the M1 and M69 motorways, and on a main rail line to London.
I have a wide range of interests, from classical music through to computers, especially Linux and other POSIX based operating systems. As well as my 'real job' as a Systems Architect, I have co-authored several books, all published by Wrox Press (now owned by Wiley), and spoken at the original Bang!inux conference in Bangalore.
Professional Linux Programming (or 'PLiP') was the largest book
at over 1000 pages, but is now sadly out of print. The concept, contents and style were
designed jointly with Neil
Matthew. We also contributed between us
around half the material for the book, the remained being written by Christopher Browne, Brad Clements, Andrew Froggatt, David Goodger, Ivan Griffin, Jeff Licquia, Udaya Ranawake, Harish Rawat, Marius Sundbakken, Tony Thomas, Stephen Turnbull, Ronald van Loon, Deepak Veliath and David Woodhouse.
Beginning Linux Programming Third Edition (or 'BLP3e') is a significant revision of
of the best selling second edition, updated in conjunction with Wiley, who now own the Wrox brand, to bring in in line with the latest Linux distributions.
"If you need an introductory guide to Linux programming then this is one of the best I've come across."Read the full review on his Linux Documentation page.
The Association of C & C++ Users has also reviewed Beginning Linux Programming, giving it a Highly Recommended. Read the full review.
