Bücher von Kyle Rankin

Many technical professionals would like to write a book sharing their knowledge and experience, but most haven't. If you ask them why, it's not from lack of ideas or experience with technical subject matter. Instead, they just don't know how turn their idea into an actual published book. Even though there are some guides for publishing nonfiction books, tech books are unique in the publishing world, and there haven't been any guides that tackle the special process that goes into publishing a tech book. This book aims to change that.Rankin has authored and published a dozen books across multiple traditional tech publishers and also through self-publishing. This book distills his experience into an easy-to-follow guide that explains the full book writing and publishing process step-by-step. Topics include vetting ideas, creating an outline, pitching a publisher, writing a draft, editing, formatting, publishing, marketing, and planning future revisions."I wish that when I had started my journey I had found a book like this one." says Matthew Helmke, Principal Technical Writer at StarTree.ai and the author of many technical books including Ubuntu Linux Unleashed (Pearson, 2021).Table of ContentsPart I: Getting StartedChapter 1: The Idea- My First Book Idea- Finding Book Ideas- Which Ideas Work for A Book- Moving Past the Idea PhaseChapter 2: Outline- The Importance of a Good Outline- Writing the OutlineChapter 3: Getting A Publisher- Why You Should Get A Publisher- Choosing A Publisher- Pitching A Publisher- The Book Contract- Self-Publishing- The Next PhasePart II: WritingChapter 4: The First Draft- Making the Time- Prepare to Write- Write the Draft- Lab Work- Finishing the First DraftChapter 5: Formatting and Layout- Formatting Style- Publisher Templates- Self-Publishing Templates- Formatting and Layout with LaTeX- Transitioning to EditingChapter 6: Editing and Finishing Touches- Copy Edit Phase- Tech Edit- Front and Back Material- Final Edits and Page Proof Part III: PublishingChapter 7: Publishing and Promotion - Publishing with Traditional Publishers - Self-Publishing - Promoting Your Book Chapter 8: Royalties - Royalties, Advances, & Payment Schedule - Your First Royalty Statement - Translations and Reprints Chapter 9: Revisions - Errata- The Second Edition- Your Next BookAppendix A: An Example LaTeX Chapter

Kyle Rankin wrote a monthly column titled "Hack and /" for Linux Journal magazine for almost 12 years starting in their January 2008 issue until Linux Journal closed for good on August 7, 2019. The column aimed to provide useful tips and tricks on topics ranging from system administration to security to 3D printing to VIM. After he published his final farewell article for Linux Journal, one of the most common questions he got was "what's going to happen to the giant archive of articles?" He realized he had a whole book's worth of material just in sysadmin tips alone.This book doesn't aim to be an exhaustive guide to everything you need to know to be a system administrator. Instead, this book allows Rankin to act as a remote mentor to someone starting out in IT or system administration whether as a full-time job or as a full stack developer. Think of each section in a chapter like sitting down with him over lunch or looking over his shoulder as he shows you a tip to save you time, a tool he found useful, a lesson he learned the hard way, or an explanation of how he'd tackle a project you got assigned.Table of ContentsChapter 1 Sysadmin 101- The Importance of Learning IT Fundamentals- Leveling Up: A Sysadmin Career Path- Automation- Ticketing- Patch Management- Alerting- Preparing for Vacation- Travel Laptops Tips in PracticeChapter 2 Sysadmin's Toolbox- Filesystem Hierarchy Standard- Scheduling One-time Jobs with At- Sort and Uniq- Tracking Bandwidth with Iftop- Right Command, Wrong Server- Chopping Logs- Shorter Commands- Add Progress Bars to dd- Lock Files with the flock CommandChapter 3 Home Servers- Setting Up Your Network- Setting Up A Home DNS Server- A Local Mail Server- Clustering with Raspberry Pis- Home As Your Backup Data CenterChapter 4 Server Projects- Last Minute Secondary Mail Server- Check Exchange from the Command Line- Migrate to a New Hard Drive- Remotely Wipe a Server- Preseeding Full Disk Encryption- Localhost DNS Cache- PXE Magic- More PXE MagicChapter 5 When Disaster Strikes- Stop Killing Your Cattle- Troubleshooting High Load- Troubleshooting the Local Network- Troubleshooting Remote Networks- Troubleshooting with Telnet- Collecting Server Metrics with Sar- Dynamic DNS Disaster- Troubleshoot Full Disks- Hard Drive Crashes- Recover the Master Boot Record- Restoring Deleted FilesAppendices A My Favorite InfrastructureSample Chapter: https://kylerank.in/bohs_lacc_sample_chapter.pdf