Scott Knaster is an American technical writer who has written many books, mostly dealing with

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programming and using the Macintosh. He has worked for such companies as

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, Danger Inc., and

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. Knaster was a Technical Writer while at Alphabet. From April 2011 through March 2014, he was the editor of the Google Developers Blog (formerly Google Code Blog). Knaster's first books on Macintosh programming in the late 1980s and early 1990s were considered required reading for Macintosh programmers for many years. In addition to writing books, Knaster writes for several periodicals and web sites including

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, and O'Reilly Media's Mac Dev Center. Knaster is a regular speaker at

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, MacHack (until it ended), and sits on the panel of Apple's Stump the Experts. Knaster was a guest o
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"Leave Cindy Alone!". Knaster appeared on the October 14, 2010 episode of John Wants Answers to discuss baseball. Knaster is a stage actor who has appeared in many musical productions and played the lead role of Tevye in

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, and has written and performed his own sho
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Works

* ''Cooking with Hypertalk 2.0'' * ''How to Write Macintosh Software: The Debugging Reference for Macintosh'' (2nd edition: 1988, ; 3rd edition: 1992, ) * ''Macintosh Programming Secrets'' (1st edition: 1988) (2nd edition: 1992, ) * ''Macworld Discover Internet Explorer 3'' (1997, ) * ''MSN the Everyday Web'' (2001, ) * ''Mac Toys: 12 Cool Projects for Home, Office, and Entertainment'' (2004, ) * ''Hacking iPod and iTunes'' (2004, ) * ''Hacking Mac OS X Tiger: Serious Hacks, Mods and Customizations'' (2005, ) * ''Take Control of Switching to the Mac'' (2008, ) * ''Learn Objective-C on the Mac'' (2008, ) Knaster was also the series editor for Addison-Wesley's ''Macintosh Inside Out'', a collection of 19 technical books published over a 3-year period in the 1990s.

References

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