updated 20 December 2014

Bill Weinman

Bill Weinman is a programmer, author, musician, and technologist, in no particular order. See Bill's biography and his résumé/CV for more information.

Note: This web site is very old and seriously out-of-date. I'm working on it. I swear!

lynda.com Courses [FAQ]

Bill is currently writing and delivering online courses for lynda.com, the premier source for online training. Some of his courses include:

• C++ Essential Training NEW! December 2014
• C++ Code Clinic NEW! July 2014
• MySQL Essential Training NEW! May 2014
• SQL Essential Training NEW! March 2014
• iOS 6: iOS System Resources August 2013
• Xcode 4 Essential Training March 2013
• iOS SDK and SQLite: Building Data-Driven Apps January 2013
• HTML Essential Training September 2012
• HTML5: Messaging and Communications in Depth January 2012
• HTML5: Document Editing in Depth January 2012
• HTML5: Background Processing with Web Workers January 2012
• PostgreSQL 9 with PHP Essential Training November 2011
• HTML5: Drag and Drop in Depth July 2011
• HTML5: Local Storage and Offline Applications in Depth June 2011
• Distributing iOS Applications Through the App Store Feb 2011
• Distributing Mac OSX Applications Through the App Store Feb 2011
• iOS SDK 4: Building Data-Driven Applications Dec 2010
• SQLite 3 with PHP Essential Training Oct 2010
• Python 3 Essential Training Aug 2010
• Perl 5 Essential Training Apr 2010
• CSS For Developers Feb 2010
• CGI Essential Training Jan 2010
• Creating Dynamic Menus Dec 2009
• CSS Positioning Aug 2009
• MySQL Essential Training 2009
• XHTML/HTML Essential Training 2009
• SQL Essential Training 2009
• Managing Spam Essential Training 2008

If you have questions or comments about any of Bill's courses on lynda.com, please read the lynda.com FAQ before writing to him about them.

Contract Programming

After more than 30 years of working on long-term projects Bill has shifted his focus to smaller jobs to better support his writing and open-source projects.

Please feel free to contact Bill with your small project needs.

BW Whois

BW Whois is Bill's open-source whois client. Originally released in December 1999, and still in active development, BW Whois has evolved into a full-featured command-line/web client with rich security features, caching and database support.

Books and Writings

Mr. Weinman has written five books, including The CGI Book and, with his sister Lynda, Creative HTML Design. He has contributed to other books on programming and web design and has written articles for various computer-related periodicals. Recently his writing has been focused on developing courseware for lynda.com.

AMTP

AMTP (Authenticated Mail Transfer Protocol) is Bill's solution to the SPAM problem. See the AMTP web site for more information.

Bill's Music

Bill is an extremely talented guitarist and composer. While he has been focused on non-music pursuits of late, you can always hear and download his music here.

BearHeart

BearHeart is Bill's spiritual alter-ego. He is studying native american shamanic medicine and has aspirations of becoming a teacher in the Sweet Medicine Sundance path. BearHeart has recently begun a blog.

Blog

Bill occasionally scribbles in his blog.

NOTE: Because of Bill's bw-whois program, some people seem to think that he has some control over the registration of domains. Unless you are a client or a personal friend, Bill does not have anything to do with your domain so please do not write to him about it (and please do not call him at home about it!) He cannot help you, and due to the surprisingly large volume of requests, he probably will not answer your message.