• Articles and Books,  Business

    25 Great Business Books To Use Your Gift Cards To Buy

    December 29, 2015

    I started working at JAMF a little over a year and a half ago. And one of my favorite things about the on boarding process here is the emphasis on continuing education that was handed down to me. I was given two books to read on my first day. Then, during my get-the-cool-aid on boarding (aka Zero Month), I had a couple of pretty rad JAMFs go through a list of books they felt were essential and review the books from my first day. Theeeen, I had meetings with Co-Founder and CEO at the time Chip Pearson, where he would stop meetings and order me books. It was a book nerd’s heaven I tell ya’.…

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  • Articles and Books,  Mac OS X,  Mac OS X Server,  Mac Security,  Mass Deployment

    The Second Edition of our Enterprise Mac Administrators Guide Now Shipping

    December 9, 2015

    My 14th book, The second edition of the Mac Administrator’s Guide is now shipping. This was a big, big rewrite, given the fact that the first edition was before the App Store, Gatekeeper, and many, many other technologies. You can buy this book here! Also, huge congrats to Bill Smith, for publishing his first book, and most notably for doing so much amazing work on this book! Finally, we’re editing the second and third books I did this past summer right now, so look out for those announcements shortly!

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  • Articles and Books,  Mac OS X,  Mac OS X Server,  Mac Security,  Mass Deployment

    My Take Control Of OS X Server Book Now Available!

    November 24, 2014

    Thanks to all the awesome work from Adam and Tanya Engst, Tidbits announced today that my Take Control of OS X Server is now available! To quote some of the Tidbits writeup: Some projects turn out to be harder than expected, and while Charles Edge’s “Take Control of OS X Server” was one of them, we’re extremely pleased to announce that the full 235-page book is now available in PDF, EPUB, and Mobipocket versions to help anyone in a home or small office environment looking to get started with Apple’s OS X Server. As you’ll likely remember, we published this book chapter by chapter for TidBITS members, finishing it in early…

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  • Articles and Books

    Three New Take Control Books Titles On Yosemite

    October 17, 2014

    Kudos to Take Control (including Joe Kissell and Schools McFarland here) for being on the spot with getting Yosemite titles out in alignment with the release of the actual operating system. To put you in control of Apple’s new OS X 10.10 Yosemite they have three books for you today: the first two are straightforward and useful, and the third has more real-world, practical advice for the modern Mac user than anything we’ve published recently. To quote the release information today, they are: *  “Take Control of Upgrading to Yosemite,” by Joe Kissell *  “Yosemite: A Take Control Crash Course,” by Scholle McFarland *  “Digital Sharing for Apple Users: A Take…

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  • Articles and Books

    Facebook Pages

    December 30, 2012

    Better late than never. Facebook pages for some of my books: Using Mac OS X Lion Server: https://www.facebook.com/osxserver Enterprise iPhone and iPad Administrator’s Guide: https://www.facebook.com/pages/Enterprise-iPhone-and-ipad-Administrators-Guide/282217275233852 Enterprise Mac Administrator’s Guide: https://www.facebook.com/pages/Enterprise-Mac-Administrators-Guide/190363331102720 Time Machine in Mac OS X Lion: https://www.facebook.com/pages/Time-Machine-In-Mac-OS-X-Lion/448356355230805 Beginning Mac OS X Snow Leopard Server: https://www.facebook.com/pages/Beginning-Mac-OS-X-Snow-Leopard-Server/371061802989330 Enterprise Mac OS X Snow Leopard Security: https://www.facebook.com/pages/Enterprise-Mac-Security-Mac-OS-X-Snow-Leopard/221774031291627 Foundations of Mac OS X Leopard Security: https://www.facebook.com/pages/Foundations-of-Mac-OS-X-Leopard-Security/550986454931475 Mac Tiger Server Little Black Book: https://www.facebook.com/TigerServerLittleBlackBook Will post a few more things soon. Thanks!

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  • Articles and Books,  Business

    Amazon Now Has Book Trade Ins

    April 14, 2012

    When I was in college, at the end of each semester we’d go to the book store (you know, that place that fleeced us with $100 used books) and we’d sell back those books for about one tenth to one quarter what we bought them from. We’d then use that money to help fund one of our books for the next semester (or beer). Well, Amazon is doing something similar now. Although it has to do more with when new editions of the book are released. Each edition of a book allows you to trade the book in for new editions. Take Practical C++ Programming, from O’Reilly. Apparently I bought…

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