Michael Fitzgerald

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Mapleton, Utah

XML engineer, author, blogger, trainer and coach.

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Michael Fitzgerald is Principal at Overdue Books LLC, a publishing and writing firm. He is the author of Learning Ruby, Ruby Pocket Reference, XML Pocket Reference, Third Edition with Simon St. Laurent, XML Hacks, and Learning XSLT, all published by O'Reilly. He is also the author of Building B2B Applications with XML: A Resource Guide and XSL Essentials (both by John Wiley & Sons). His books have been translated into Spanish, French, German, Japanese, and Chinese. He was a regular contributor to XML.com. Michael likes to ski (downhill and cross country), ride and train horses, and spend time with his family.

Introducing Regular Expressions by Michael Fitzgerald July 2012 Print: $29.99 Ebook: $23.99	Google Ajax Search API by Michael Fitzgerald , Ali Pasha September 2007 Ebook: $9.99
Ruby Pocket Reference by Michael Fitzgerald July 2007 Print: $9.99 Ebook: $7.99	Learning Ruby by Michael Fitzgerald May 2007 Print: $34.99 Ebook: $27.99
XML Pocket Reference by Simon St. Laurent , Michael Fitzgerald Third Edition August 2005 Print: $9.95 Ebook: $7.99	XML Hacks by Michael Fitzgerald July 2004 Print: $24.95 Ebook: $19.99
Learning XSLT by Michael Fitzgerald November 2003 Print: $34.95 Ebook: $24.99

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iMovie '09 on a PowerBook G4

September 15 2009

A few days ago, I bought iLife '09 at a university bookstore (Apple, by the way, has the most liberal academic pricing I know of—I got the academic discount because my daughter is a student at the university) and attempted... read more

More on Wolfram Alpha

May 15 2009

I discussed the Wolfram Alpha "computational knowledge engine" in a blog a few days ago. To see how it works, you can watch a screencast (13:23) introducing the new search engine here. You can also watch Wolfram Alpha go live... read more

Coming this Month: Wolfram|Alpha Search

May 12 2009

Sometime this month, a new, more-interesting-than-your-average-search-engine will launch: Wolfram|Alpha. Wolfram Research, who has brought us Mathematica and A New Kind of Science, has set out to "create a true computational knowledge engine" that I am dying to play with. According... read more

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Writing Ant Tasks
Publish Date: Jun. 2, 2004Among the many reasons the Java community loves Ant is its flexibility: adding new capabilities to Ant just requires writing a small amount of custom Java code. Michael Fitzgerald shows how Ant can be extended to provide handy XML validation.

"It's a little thing, this Ruby Pocket Reference, but it's also a mighty big thing if you are working with the Ruby language."
--T. Michael Testi, Blogcritics Magazine

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