Last updated: December 3, 2008
I own Sattre Press, a book publishing company. I do the book design, typesetting, web design, programming, selling, shipping and everything else except the printing and binding.Here is an essay giving the details of how I got started.
As part of my work with Sattre Press, I am putting some public domain titles on the web for free. They are listed on The Online Books Page and have been contributed to Project Gutenberg.Available now:
- Pagan Papers, by Kenneth Grahame
- Tales of War, by Lord Dunsany
- Curiosities of the Sky, by Garrett P. Serviss
- In the Quarter, by Robert W. Chambers
- A Popular History of Astronomy During the Nineteenth Century, by Agnes M. Clerke
Coming soon:
- Round the Year with the Stars, by Garrett P. Serviss
- Astronomy With the Naked Eye, by Garrett P. Serviss
- Astronomy With an Opera-Glass, by Garrett P. Serviss
- Pleasures of the Telescope, by Garrett P. Serviss
Outlines, articles and links which may be helpful for those reading political scientist and philosopher Eric Voegelin.
Open Source Projects
Astrolabe
Astrolabe is a collection of subroutines and applications for calculating the positions of the sun, moon, planets and other celestial objects. The emphasis is on high accuracy over a several thousand year time span.scload
scload has a few simple utilities for loading and viewing the Special Objects List of the Sky Engineering Sky Commander XP4 digital setting circles computer.Hardware
Montag is a home computer built in September 2007.
The ConTeXt and pdfTeX Beginners Help Page is a collection of hints and examples I collected while learning to use TeX.
Software Consulting, Contract Programming, Book design and typesettingSpecialties:
- C++, Python, COBOL, SQL, HTML, other languages.
- UNIX, Linux, and VMS programming.
- Relational database design, tuning and application development for large systems.
- INGRES.
- TeX and ConTeXt