No, JD Wayside is not a figment of my imagination, my animus or other fanciful psychological prop. JD's a good friend who co-created the original ErisX website, a true Pope who provided tons of Discordian content which helped guide many a misguided soul through the bardos of Discord. Those files are still up, here. Below is a list of links provided by his Popishness some time ago. MOST OF THEM ARE RED HERRINGS, until JD can take a vacation from the meatworld....  ~EX


EVIDENCE OF THE EXISTENCE OF JD WAYSIDE:
(updated by JD on November 15th, 2004)

http://apress.com/book/bookDisplay.html?bID=438 - PHP5 Recipes: A Problem-Solution Approach
(Apress, 2005) (co-author)

http://www.php-mag.net/ - PHP International Magazine (columnist)

http://dev.mysql.com/doc/ - MySQL Manual (co-author/co-maintainer)

http://www.hiveminds.info/ -- I'm one of the admins, and post in the forums there as "Zontar"

http://www.experts-exchange.com/ -- Also post there as "Zontar", although I've not been terribly active there lately

http://forums.mysql.com/ -- I post here under my real name, since I'm an employee

http://www.apress.com/book/bookDisplay.html?bID=338 --
My latest book, *Beginning MySQL Database Design and Optimisation: From Novice to Professional*, co-authored with Chad Russell. It's currently featured on the Apress home page. I also visit the Apress forums occasionally.

A name search on Amazon turns up all kinds of crap. When I get time, I'll create a custom list, but for now, here are all the books I've co-authored, listed separately (double-check the years of publication, but I think those are right):

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/1590593324/ -- MySQL DB Design (Apress, 2004)

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/1861008074/ -- Professional PHP Web Services (Wrox, 2002)

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/1861007434/ -- Professional PHP4 Web Development Solutions (Wrox, 2001)

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/1590594088/ -- Usable Shopping Carts (glasshaus, 2002)

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/1904151094/ -- Usable Forms for the Web (glasshaus, 2001)

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/1861005334/ -- HTML 4.01 Programmer's Reference (Wrox, 2000)

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/1861005539/ -- Professional JavaScript, 2nd Edition (Wrox, 2000)

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/1590591860/ -- Usable Web Menus (glasshaus, 2002)

http://mysql.meetup.com/84/ -- Anybody in the Brisbane area who's interested in MySQL, is invited to join the Brisbane MySQL Meetup, info here.

JD


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