Below is a partial collection of my writings. The "fiction" category is going
to be much smaller than the non-fiction, not because I don't write many stories
or plays, but (a) fewer of them are in any finished state, (b) I'm much more
insecure about my fictional works and (c) the better stuff needs to be more
carefully protected from misuse. Nevertheless, I'll work to get a better sample
posted eventually.
Fiction
"Pull
My Finger" © 2003 unpublished. (pdf file)
This is a short play that I had written for the now-defunct Hyphenate
Project. It's not my best work, but it's one of the few creative
works in an actual finished (publishable) form. |
Published (printed) Works
 Early
Adopter Mac OS X Java © 2001 by Wrox Press. Co-authored
book; wrote chapters on Enterprise Java (Databases, EJB, etc.) and architecture
decisions. And yes, the mug shot on the cover of the book is mine. |
Web articles (finished and unfinished)
- Fitness & Nutrition
- Much of my life has been dedicated to figuring out how to get my body
in good shape. It has been a long journey and anything but straightforward.
This series of articles attempts to pass along what little bit of wisdom
I've picked up along the way.
- E-Mail Safety Rules
- This article is intended for anyone new to the Internet who is concerned
about e-mail, viruses, worms, hoaxes, etc. and wants to learn better
"Nettiquitte".
- XML, Databases and Enterprise Java for Mac OS X
- This was going to be a series of articles on various "Enterprise" technologies
with OS X. Actually, the two incomplete articles were what led Wrox Press
to approach me about the book. I'd still like to flesh out the articles
and write them, but OS X has been through one major revision and another
(Panther) in arouned the corner. We'll see what happens.
- Tips for Taping a Stage Performance on Video
- Right now a first draft. I've written this just to capture some of
the lessons I've learned about what works and what doesn't when taping
a stage performance. Right now the article just focuses on exposure settings,
but I'll flesh it out to discuss sound, the merits of having a live audience,
etc.
- Open Letter to Apple, Sprint & Verizon
- I can't believe that I'm the only person who demands a contact synchronization
solution as a prerequisite for cell phone service. I've been trying to
find a solution that will allow me to dump T-Mobile and move to Verizon
and Sprint without luck. This open letter is my reaction to some really
stupid missed opportunitites.
- Building Your Own JBoss Configuration
- The JBoss developers have suggested that users should feel free to
build their own custom JBoss environments to suit the exact needs of
their applications. Some may not have even noticed that under JBoss's
server directory there are multiple configuration subdirectories—minimal,
default and all—and we can easily make more! This is a tutorial that
gives an example of building a minimal (Tomcat) JSP/Servlet web server,
and then a minimal (almost stand-alone) JMS messaging server.
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Articles written (but not published) while working
for the USDA Forest Service as a Statistics Graduate Student
- Construction of the Maine Pseudoplot
- A description of the process used to convert sampled circular plots
of land into a single large forest simulation. The process used to
reshape each plot is better described in the next paper.
- A Mathematical Procedure to Transform a Mapped Circular Space into
a Square Space
- The derivation of a geometric transformation that allows a circular
map to be redrawn as a square map. The paper on the Maine Pseudoplots
is motivation for the development of this procedure. This was actually
edited (more like rewritten) by my brother (Michael Scott Williams)
and published with another published application paper. I don't have
the actual references handy right now.
- Beta-Binomial Distribution for Proportional Confidence Intervals
- In the ACAS Project (my thesis) there is a need to evaluate confidence
intervals for parameters with a (0,1) range. The Beta provides a shape
that makes this convenient and natural. Unfortunately, I've had no
luck deriving the appropriateness of this interval to date.
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Articles written for the OS/2
E-zine a LONG time ago...
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