Published Works

Bibliography

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Leaflets, booklets, brochures & reports:

HDRA - The Henry Doubleday Research Association

(Europe’s largest organic gardening charity - recently changed name to Garden Organic)

Wrote or revised several of the fact sheets and information booklets, such as:

Apple Pest and Disease
Fruit Nursery Addresses
Gardening with benificial insects for natural pest control
Guidelines for Organic gardening
Making Worm Compost
Powdery Mildew
Starting an Allotment

Landscape & Art Network

An Analysis of the Organisation and some Recommendations for achieving its Aims and for Further Expansion, 17 March 1995.
(Also reviewed in Landscape & Art - The Newsletter of the Landscape & Art Network, 8, Winter/Spring 1996, p6)

Print Journals:

HDRA News

(Now published as Organic Way

145 Autumn 1996 Growing Food in Cities (p41) - the National Food Alliance report & linked HDRA project
146 Winter 1996 Members are Getting Younger! (p5) - I “ghost-wrote” this summary of the membership survey for CEO, Alan Gear
Bug Busting (p31) - non-toxic eradication of headlice
Organic Advice: Powdery Mildew (pp36-37)
Book review: How To Make A Forest Garden, Patrick Whitefield (p49)
147 Basic Botany
148 Summer 1997 Plant Problem Information Sheet (pp16-17) - revised form for members to submit their plant problems
Basic Botany: Pollination (pp26-28)
Slugs & Sheep (pp36-37) - report from the Welsh Pest Management Forum / Fforwm Gymraeg Rheolaeth Pla seminar on ‘New techniques of pest control in Organic Farming’
150 Winter 1997 Plum Pest & Disease Management (pp34-35) [uncredited - but I'm pretty sure it's mine]

Landscape Design

[Journal of the Landscape Institute]

244 October 1995 (p43) The Fifty Year Plan - review of the Arboriculture Association Seminar, Hants., 21 June 1995
(p43) London Squares - Institute of Horticulture Conference, 26 June 1995

Linux Format

[Note that from November 2001 to January 2003 I also worked as Production Editor on Linux Format.]

23 January 2002 User Groups (pp94-95) LUG community pages - Nottingham LUG.
24 February 2002 Help Wanted (pp16-17) How to get involved in the Free Software community.
User Groups (pp94-95) LUG community pages.
25 March 2002 Help Wanted (pp16-17) How to get involved in the Free Software community.
User Groups (pp108-110) LUG community pages - York LUG.
26 April 2002 Help Wanted (pp20-21) How to get involved in the Free Software community.
Samba King (pp62-66) Interview with Jeremy Allison.
User Groups (pp110-112) LUG community pages - Shrophire LUG & Sheffield Linux Seminar.
27 May 2002 Help Wanted (pp108-109) How to get involved in the Free Software community.
User Groups (pp110-112) LUG community pages - Sheffield LUG
28 June 2002 Help Wanted (pp108-109) How to get involved in the Free Software community.
User Groups (pp110-112) LUG community pages - Greater London LUG (GLLUG)
(Linux Pro supplement, pp12-19): LinuxPro Interview - Georg Greve (President of FSF-Europe).
29 July 2002 Help Wanted (pp108-109) How to get involved in the Free Software community.
User Groups (pp110-112) LUG community pages - Manchester LUG
30 August 2002 Help Wanted (pp108-109) How to get involved in the Free Software community.
User Groups (pp110-112) LUG community pages - Fuengirola LUG
(Linux Pro supplement, pp14-19): FREEDOM to Innovate. [Software patents & Richard Stallman interview]
31 September 2002 User Groups (pp110-112) LUG community pages - Dorset LUG
32 October 2002 User Groups (pp110-112) LUG community pages - Huddersfield LUG
33 November 2002 User Groups (pp110-112) LUG community pages - Northants LUG
34 December 2002 User Groups (pp110-112) LUG community pages - Belfast LUG
35 Christmas 2002 User Groups (pp110-112) LUG community pages - Kingston upon Hull LUG
(Linux Pro supplement, pp10-17): Access Rights [Linux accessibility]
36 January 2003 User Groups (pp110-112) LUG community pages - South Cheshire LUG
37 February 2003 User Groups (pp110-112) LUG community pages - South Wales LUG
(Linux Pro supplement, pp14-17): Everyone’s Desktop [Accessibility in GNOME 2.2]
38 March 2003 Book Review - Free Software, Free Society, Richard M Stallman (p33)
49 January 2004 What on Earth is The AFFS (pp56-59).
57 September 2004 (Linux Pro supplement, pp6-15): Free Education [Free Software in UK education]
62 January 2005 What on Earth is PearPC? (pp46-49).
63 February 2005 Free Software for Business (pp66-69)
64 March 2005 What on Earth is NX? (pp44-47).
Trusted Software (pp70-73) UK Battleships ditch Unix for Windows!
65 April 2005 RoundUp - Minimalist Window Managers (pp36-41). Truly minimalist: evilwm. Ratpoison, Blackbox; Tabbed: PWM, Ion2, TrsWM; Plan B-based: larswm, lwm, wm2; More Advanced: Window Maker, IceWM, Fluxbox.
69 August 2005 What on Earth is Open Carpet? (pp48-51).
71 October 2005 RoundUp: File Mangers (pp46-41) [Endeavour MkII; FSViewer; gentoo; Konqueror; Midnight Commander; Nautilus; ROX-Filer; Xfe]. Download PDF
78 April 2006 The Second Coming (pp54-57) An introduction to Web 2.0
81 July 2006 Lessons in Linux (pp50-59) Free Software in Education, at Primary, Secondary & Tertiary levels.
103 March 2008 Comment column: FOSS in your community (p8).
104 April 2008 Comment column: Hacking the Undergrowth (p8).
Hot Picks (pp72-77) Flightgear; KGuitar; Ubuntu Tweak; Debian GNU/Hurd; Crimson Fields; MuseScore; Sylbi; Task Coach; ESpeak.
105 May 2008 Comment column: Power users, saving power. (p8)
Hot Picks (pp70-75) Cell Writer; Frink; GCompris; Hedgewars; Hotwire; KDelicious; PCMan File Manager; PTheremin; X-Moto; XPN.
106 June 2008 Comment column: Colour Me Green. (p8)
Hot Picks (pp70-75) Alexandria; Mpg123; Youtube-dl; Tunguska; SuperTuxKart; Adonthell; Surfraw; Tomboy; Dstat; Ctioga.
107 July 2008 Hot Picks (pp70-75) Chandler; SoundConverter; SuperGrub; XMonad; Risk; QTads; Rootz; PictureFlow; Wammu; WordPress.
108 August 2008 Hot Picks (pp70-75) Liferea; QTractor; Strasheela; Endeavour II; Worldwarvi; Cave9; ColorExplorer; TuxType; When; DelSafe
109 September 2008 Hot Picks (pp72-77) Psychosynth; BlueProximity; Paperbox; EiffelStudio; Wormux; NPush; TuxGuitar; BG-Tiny Linux Bootdisk; YAGTD; Zile.

Linux Magazine

[I also compiled the cover CDs for part of 2001 (issues 10-13), and cleared up translation mistakes for feature and technical articles from German contributers (issues 6-13)]

5 February 2001 Lessons in Linux: Linux for Schools - An Introduction (pp30-32)
6 March 2001 At Your Command: A Series of tips on command line favourites (p103)
(pp120-123)How Free is Free? Free Software is a matter of liberty, not price
Installation for The Nation (p124) - a profile of the upcoming Installation Day
8 May 2001 Open Source in Education (pp8-9) - a round-up from the OSiE conference.
9 June 2001 Young at Heart: Games for Education. Games for Fun (pp96-97)
POSIX Compliant: Close Enough to Unix (pp106-107) - a round-up of other freely-available, Unix-like OSs
10 July 2001 The K Factor (pp96-97) - a round-up of children’s games on KDE, and investigation of Sokoban in AI research.
Time is of the Essence (pp106-107) - RTOS & Linux
11 August 2001 Online Gaming (pp56-57) MUDs, Creatures, Chess & Go online
Easy as ABC (pp97-98) - children’s word and number puzzles
QNX, Any size you want (pp106-107) - the popular microkernel OS, QNX
12 The GNU Generation (98-102) The Debian Jr Project, with an interview with Ben Armstrong
13 October 2001 Linux for Kids: Summer Round-Up (p82) - International FOSS education efforts
Faith in Atheos (pp86-88) - The multi-threading, GUI-based, desktop OS project
14 November 2001 Hurd the GNUs? Make room for the FSF kernel (pp84-87) - A history of the Hurd
15 December 2001 Talking My Language (p86-89) - Programming for kids