Brian Jepson

Kingston, Rhode Island

hacker, artist, editor

Areas of Expertise:

Perl
Microcontrollers
Arduino

Mac OS X
SQL

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Brian Jepson is an O'Reilly editor, hacker, and co-organizer of Providence Geeks and the Rhode Island Mini Maker Faire. He's also been involved in various ways over the years with AS220, a non-profit arts center in Providence, Rhode Island. AS220 gives Rhode Island artists uncensored and unjuried forums for their work and also provides galleries, performance space, fabrication facilities, and live/work space.

Getting Started with NFC by Tom Igoe , Brian Jepson July 2012 Print: $19.99	Mac OS X for Unix Geeks (Leopard) by Ernest E. Rothman , Brian Jepson , Rich Rosen Fourth Edition September 2008 Print: $34.99 Ebook: $27.99
Mac OS X Tiger for Unix Geeks by Brian Jepson , Ernest E. Rothman Third Edition June 2005 Ebook: $27.99	Linux Unwired by Roger Weeks , Edd Dumbill , Brian Jepson April 2004 Print: $24.95
Mac OS X Panther for Unix Geeks by Brian Jepson , Ernest E. Rothman Second Edition February 2004 OUT OF PRINT	Learning Unix for Mac OS X Panther by Dave Taylor , Brian Jepson December 2003 OUT OF PRINT
Learning Unix for Mac OS X by Dave Taylor , Brian Jepson Second Edition December 2002 OUT OF PRINT	Mac OS X for Unix Geeks by Brian Jepson , Ernest E. Rothman September 2002 Ebook: $19.99
Perl Resource Kit -- Win32 Edition by Erik Olson , Brian Jepson , Dick Hardt , David Futato August 1998 OUT OF PRINT	Perl Resource Kit -- UNIX Edition by Larry Wall , Ellen Siever , Nathan Patwardhan , Brian Jepson , David Futato November 1997 OUT OF PRINT

Arduino Up and Running
by Brian Jepson
September 2010
Video: $29.99

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MakerBot, an inexpensive, easy-to-build 3D printer

June 12 2009

I just saw this piece in the weekly print edition of the Christian Science Monitor. It's a great overview of a lot of the offerings out there. In Your idea, "printed" in 3-D, Jesse Emspak writes: At its heart, this... read more

Verizon Mi-Fi2200 Intelligent Mobile Hotspot

June 05 2009

The folks at Verizon Wireless and Weber Shandwick Worldwide sent me a review unit of the Verizon Mi-Fi2200 Intelligent Mobile Hotspot. It's a great device that combines the broad coverage of EV-DO (the 3G cellular data system used by Verizon... read more

Android Cupcake 1.5 available for dev phones

April 27 2009

Via the Android Blogging Network, I learned that HTC released new firmware for the Android Dev Phone 1 with the long-awaited "Cupcake" (1.5) version of the Android operating system. The installation isn't too tricky, but you should read it... read more

Google Web Toolkit on Mac OS X

May 20 2006

The download page says Linux or Windows... read more

The Give it a Good Whack School of Tech Support?

May 01 2006

My first Genius Bar experience. read more

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Webcast: First Steps with Arduino
June 16, 2010
Duration: Approximately 60 minutes. Cost: Free In this webcast, Brian Jepson will introduce the basics of Arduino, the open source electronics prototyping platform. You'll learn what Arduino is, where to get one, and how to connect electronic components...

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Top Ten Mac OS X Tips for Unix Geeks
Publish Date: May. 15, 2007From starting up to shutting down, there are big differences between Mac OS X and Unix machines. Brian Jepson, coauthor of Mac OS X for Unix Geeks offers 10 tips he gathered while working on the book. If you're a Unix geek moving to Mac OS X, these tips will help smooth the way. Brian has recently updated this "oldie but goodie." Linux Untethered
Publish Date: Feb. 5, 2004Wireless Linux is great, if you can find a hotspot. If not, have you considered a cellular data connection? It may not be as slow nor as expensive as you think. Brian Jepson explores the state of cellular networking with Linux. Can't Afford a Tablet PC? Try This!
Publish Date: Jan. 16, 2003For about a $100, you can create a Tablet PC experience on your Windows laptop, complete with handwriting recognition. Connecting Mac OS X to Windows PCs
Publish Date: Nov. 19, 2002A hands-on look at how you can share files between your Mac and your Windows machines, then explore how Windows applications can be run on your Mac Introducing ASP.NET Web Matrix
Publish Date: Aug. 12, 2002ASP.NET Web Matrix is Microsoft's latest offering for .NET programmers. Positioned somewhere between Visual Studio .NET and plain text editors, it provides a useful tool to accelerate development. This article looks at the capabilities of ASP.NET Web Matrix. Previewing the .NET Compact Framework
Publish Date: May. 28, 2002A quick look at Microsoft's Compact Framework for PocketPCs. Get Your Rotor Running
Publish Date: Mar. 27, 2002At 9,700 files and 1.9 million lines of code, Microsoft's Rotor is definitely a little intimidating. Brian Jepson helps demystify Microsoft's Shared Source CLI implementation to get you up and running. Uncovering Rotor -- A Shared Source CLI
Publish Date: Mar. 4, 2002O'Reilly .NET editor Brian Jepson shares what he took from a recent BOF at BSDCon 2002 hosted by Microsoft's David Stutz on the shared source ECMA Common Language Infrastructure (CLI) implementation project known as Rotor, which would ideally foster true .NET language interoperability on other OS platforms like FreeBSD. A Quick Tour of .NET Web Services
Publish Date: Feb. 25, 2002Brian Jepson gives you a quick tour of .NET Web services, using code snippets from recent talk given at a Visual Foxpro symposium. And yes, Foxpro can be used for .NET Web services as well. You Can Hack .NET Without Buying Visual Studio .NET
Publish Date: Feb. 11, 2002Brian Jepson explains how programmers can get started working with C#, without purchasing Visual Studio .NET. What .NET Got Right
Publish Date: Feb. 11, 2002While .NET is not a J2EE killer, writes O'Reilly .NET editor Brian Jepson, it offers not only competitive features but a far superior development experience for newcomers. A Visual J# .NET Primer
Publish Date: Oct. 15, 2001Microsoft's JUMP to .NET promises tools to migrate Java programs to C#, as well as support for the Java SDK class library. When news of Visual J# reached O'Reilly's Brian Jepson, he had to check it out. The first thing he tried was "Hello, World." Mono Unveiled
Publish Date: Jul. 9, 2001GNOME and .NET are getting together. According to today's announcement, Ximian is working on an implementation of the .NET CLI called Mono, the first steps toward an open source .NET framework.

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