Dan Rahmel (born 1969) is an American author best known for his work relating to

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and

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s. Rahmel first began work as a writer for various magazines including

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, and

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. He co-authored his first book ''Interfacing to the PowerPC Microprocessor'' in 1995 and began writing steadily about the programming and database development fields. In 2002, he began working in

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film production and gained experience as a gaffer,

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, and

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. He has written a number of articles about his Hollywood experience and in 2004 publisher

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released his book ''Nuts and Bolts Filmmaking'' that describes

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techniques. His books have been translated into various languages including Chinese, Japanese, Spanish, French, and Portuguese. In 2006, Focal Press issued a special edition of ''Nuts and Bolts Filmmaking'' for release in India.

Bibliography

* ''Advanced

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'' (APress) * ''Beginning

: From Novice to Professional, 2nd Edition'' (APress) * ''Professional

'' (Wrox) * ''Beginning

: From Novice to Professional'' (APress) * ''Nuts and Bolts Filmmaking'' (Focal Press) * ''Visual Basic .NET Reference Book, 3rd Edition'' (Osborne) * ''Building Web Database Applications with Visual Studio'' (Osborne) * ''Visual Basic/VBA/VB Script Reference Book, 2nd Edition'' (Osborne) * ''Teach Yourself Visual Basic Database Design in 24 hours'' (SAMS) * ''Three-D Business Data Analysis with VRML'' (Prentice Hall) * ''Server-side solutions with Visual JavaScript'' (McGraw-Hill) * ''Visual Basic/VBA/VB Script Reference Book'' (Osborne) * ''Active Platform Sourcebook'' (John Wiley & Sons) * ''Visual Basic for Applications 5'', “Techniques from the Experts” chapters (QUE) * ''Teach Yourself Visual Basic 5'' (MIS Press) * ''Using Microsoft Outlook'', chapter 28 and chapter 29 (QUE) * ''Developing Client/Server Applications with Visual Basic 4.0'' (SAMS) * ''Interfacing to the PowerPC Microprocessor'' (SAMS)

External links

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Nuts and Bolts Filmmaking
book page on the publisher's (Elsevier Publications) web site
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