Andy Lester

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Andy Lester started with computers early by keypunching letters to Grandma on IBM 029 punchcards. Now into his third decade of professional software development, he's the QA & Release Manager for Socialtext. Andy is also in charge of PR for The Perl Foundation and maintains over 25 modules on CPAN. Andy's two latest book projects are Mac OS X Tiger In A Nutshell from O'Reilly, and Pro Perl Debugging from Apress.

Land the Tech Job You Love (Pragmatic Bookshelf)
by Andy Lester
June 2009
Print: $23.95

Mac OS X Tiger in a Nutshell
by Andy Lester , Chris Stone , Chuck Toporek , Jason McIntosh
November 2005
Print: $39.95
Ebook: $31.99

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Webcast: Radical Career Success in a Down Economy
July 01, 2009
Duration: Approximately 60 minutes. Cost: Free We all know we're in the middle of an economic downturn. The news is full of statistics on job loss and unemployment. Everyone is feeling the crunch. In times like this it's natural to worry about your...

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The Power of mdfind
Publish Date: Jan. 4, 2006In addition to the little blue magnifying glass in the upper-right corner of your desktop, Tiger provides the mdfind and mdls commands for searching. Andy Lester discovered them while working on his updates to Mac OS X Tiger In A Nutshell. Essentially, they provide the power of Spotlight in the Unix shell. Here's how it works.

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