I am one of the authors of Dreamweaver MX Unleashed (Sams), writing the chapters about advanced server side development and ColdFusion. I was also an author of the Readers Digest book How To Do Just About Anything on a Computer . I have written for MacUser magazine and Internet.Works on Internet and business application software.
I write course notes for all of the IT training courses I teach. These notes are available separately if required - please contact me for details.
Between 1994 and 2001 (before the recent war) I made many trips to Iraq to produce documentary films and material. I liaised between the Iraqi Ministry of Information and film crews. I negotiated budgets and fees, entry visas, permissions to film, organisation of transport and accommodation, film locations, and the filming itself. The negotiation and arrangements had to be made under severe government restrictions and attempted censorship, with a backdrop of fear and state surveillance. The negotiation and arrangements required a determined attitude and constant checking that permissions given, and agreed fees and prices were stuck to. Films included:
The Ultimate Bullet, for which I was Associate Producer, about the hazards of depleted uranium use as an anti-tank weapon in the 1991 Gulf War. It was screened by Channel 4 TV in September 1997, and its popularity led to a repeat showing in January 1998.
Desert Storm's Deadly Weapon was broadcast on the US Arts & Entertainment Channel in November 1997. In March 1998 Desert Storm's Deadly Weapon was nominated as Best Documentary by a Broadcaster outside Canada at Hot Docs – the Canadian International Documentary Festival. It was later broadcast on many national TV channels worldwide.
The Siege of Kut was part of Channel 4’s Military Blunders series, about the disastrous WW1 defeat of the British army in Mesopotamia.
Arab Diaries, for PBS in America, and the Middle East, about contemporary life in Iraq for two ordinary families.