Books

Though it’s been a lifelong goal to be a novelist, I’ve been in technology for most of my life (and still am). I love technology, and have been blessed to be able to write about it for my current employer, Liferay. Here’s a list of everything I’ve published:

My novel, Providence

Providence is my first novel.

Two coasts, two tragedies. A car accident in the east sends the lives of multiple unrelated people in different directions, some of them on collision courses. A school shooting in the west takes some lives and saves others. What are we to make of all this? Is life just a series of meaningless, unrelated events, or is reality following a plan? A teacher, plumber, librarian, student, deadbeat, and others learn the answer to this and more during the course of a single, roller coaster of a day.

Available at Amazon, Barnes and Noble, or Kobo.

Liferay in Action

Liferay in Action is a complete guide to developing your website on Liferay Portal. I published this with Manning, and it was a fantastic experience.

Available direct from Manning, at Amazon, or Barnes and Noble.

Using Liferay Portal

Using Liferay Portal was created by my team at Liferay. It covers an old version of Liferay. This material is all online now and updated to the latest releases. You can still get this book direct from Lulu or from Amazon.

I grew up in Wildwood, NJ, a tourist town complete with all the trappings: a beautiful beach with white, powdery sand, restaurants, a boardwalk with rides, water parks, arcades, and games. As such, it was never all that hard for a local like me to find a summer job. By the end of my junior year of college, I’d been working summer jobs for 8 years; most recently as the driver of the Chilly Willy Ice Cream truck. By then, I finally saved up enough “extra” money to buy a new computer—this time, one that was top-of-the-line.

WordStar Screenshot The first word processor I ever used extensively was WordPerfect, in high school. I’d write articles and my serialized story for the school newspaper, papers when I could (since I didn’t own a computer), and anything else I had a chance to write, since the experience was so much better than the typewriter I had at home.

Some writers prefer writing their novels out longhand, in notebooks. I’ve never understood people who prefer writing on pen and paper. Maybe I’m weird, but the idea of doing any serious writing by pen—and then having to type it later—has never worked for me. I suppose that means I was born at the right time.

Books I Have Written

Books