Brett McLaughlin

Biography

Brett McLaughlin is a guitar player who is still struggling with the realization that you can't pay the bills if you're into acoustic fingerstyle blues and jazz. He's just recently discovered, to his delight, that writing books that help people become better programmers does pay the bills. He's very happy about this, as are his wife Leigh, and his kids, Dean and Robbie.

Before Brett wandered into Head First land, he developed enterprise Java applications for Nextel Communications and Allegiance Telecom. When that became fairly mundane, Brett took on application servers, working on the internals of the Lutris Enhydra servlet engine and EJB container. Along the way, Brett got hooked on open source software, and helped found several cool programming tools, like Jakarta turbine and JDOM.

Books

Java and XML by Brett McLaughlin , Justin Edelson Third Edition December 2006 $49.99 USD (Read Reviews)	Head First Object-Oriented Analysis and Design by Brett McLaughlin , Gary Pollice , David West November 2006 $49.99 USD (Read Reviews)
Head Rush Ajax by Brett McLaughlin March 2006 $39.99 USD (Read Reviews)	Java and XML: Rough Cuts Version by Brett McLaughlin , Justin Edelson Third Edition February 2006 OUT OF PRINT
Home Theater Hacks by Brett McLaughlin November 2004 $24.95 USD	Java 5.0 Tiger: A Developer's Notebook by David Flanagan , Brett McLaughlin June 2004 $29.95 USD (Read Reviews)
Java & XML Data Binding by Brett McLaughlin May 2002 $34.95 USD (Read Reviews)	Building Java Enterprise Applications by Brett McLaughlin March 2002 $39.95 USD (Read Reviews)
Java and XML by Brett McLaughlin Second Edition August 2001 OUT OF PRINT (Read Reviews)	Java and XML by Brett McLaughlin June 2000 OUT OF PRINT (Read Reviews)

Articles

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Why Data Binding Matters
Publish Date: May. 15, 2002Brett McLaughlin offers five examples of how data binding can save you considerable time and energy. Six Common Enterprise Programming Mistakes
Publish Date: Apr. 3, 2002Most programmers use the good things from programming books and then leave their mistakes in the very same programs. Brett McLaughlin looks at six common errors in enterprise programming. Java and XML Tips and Tricks
Publish Date: Sep. 18, 2001O'Reilly author offers some basic Java and XML programming tips and tricks to get you started. By Brett McLaughlin, author of O'Reilly's Java & XML, 2nd Edition (August 2001). Moving to a Higher Plane
Publish Date: Aug. 8, 2001O'Reilly author says to get all the fun out of Java and XML, learn SAX, and then learn DOM and JDOM. By Brett McLaughlin, author of O'Reilly's Java & XML, 2nd Edition (August 2001). Enterprise Applications in Java and J2EE
Publish Date: Jul. 1, 2000It seems everyone's talking about J2EE and how it is revolutionizing their enterprise applications. Many think the marriage between enterprise applications and the J2EE platform is a perfect and enduring union. Brett McLaughlin, author of Java and XML, says the honeymoon isn't going so well. Java and XML: Interested Parties Apply Here
Publish Date: Jun. 1, 2000Brett McLaughlin, author of our upcoming book Java and XML, looks at why XML has not been so easy to use from Java, and he tells how recent Java and XML offerings are changing things, making XML usage from Java available to all who are interested.

Blog

Did you read the book from that movie?

October 09 2008

It doesn't take a rocket scientist to realize that media is changing the way books are viewed. In fact, video - and YouTube in particular - has already changed how books are sold. Most big fiction releases are heralded by short "book trailers" that give an almost movie-like feel to… read more

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