Mike Hendrickson

Mike Hendrickson has held a variety of positions in the publishing industry including, Product Development Manager, Editor, Executive Editor, Editor-in-Chief, and Associate Publisher. Two constants are that he has always enjoyed meeting tech people and being involved with cutting-edge technologies. At O’Reilly, he is a Vice President for Content Strategy. He is the co-Author of The Best Android Apps.

Ignite Boston 3

by | @mikehatora | +Mike Hendrickson | May 6, 2008

The third Ignite Boston will be on Thursday, May 29, from 6 to 10pm in Harvard Square

State of the Computer Book Market, Part 4 – The Languages

by | @mikehatora | +Mike Hendrickson | March 5, 2008

We will look at programming languages and drill in a little on each language area.

Overall the 2007 market for programming languages was down (1.67%) in 2007 when compared with 2006. There were 1,809,695 units sold in 2006 versus 1,779,523 units sold in 2007 which is (30,172) less units in 2007.

State of the Computer Book Market, part 3 — The Publishers

by | @mikehatora | +Mike Hendrickson | March 3, 2008

In this third installment we will look at how Publishers fared in 2007 when compared to 2006.

State of the Computer Book Market, Part 2: The Technologies

by | @mikehatora | +Mike Hendrickson | February 22, 2008

Recapping the big picture from the last post, you can see that the moderate-to-high growth of Consumer Operating Systems has not been visibly aided by the addition of 47 new Q1 '07 Vista titles, because there were no Vista titles in '06 — hence the black box for Vista. However, the whole Category Family (Consumer Operating Systems) benefits from 47 new titles with more than 86,000 Vista units sold in the first three months of this year.

State of the Computer Book Market, Part 1: The Market

by | @mikehatora | +Mike Hendrickson | February 20, 2008

State of the Computer Book Market, Part 1: The Market focuses on comparing 2006 with 2007.

OLPC and the Kindle

by | @mikehatora | +Mike Hendrickson | December 21, 2007

When I saw the OLPC I just had to tinker around with it. So on an hour train ride home I explored the little OLPC and was quite impressed.

Ignite Boston – Next Week

by | @mikehatora | +Mike Hendrickson | August 30, 2007

There will be some short "launches," followed by lightening talks, and a couple of other ideas that we will inform you of in the coming weeks…. Another reason we wanted to announce this event this early, is so those of you who would like speak for five minutes on something cool, new, or exciting you can get into the queue sooner rather than later.

Ignite Boston 2

by | @mikehatora | +Mike Hendrickson | August 3, 2007

Summer is flying by and as we usher in fall, we wanted to give all New Englanders a heads-up that we are having a second Ignite Boston.

State of the Computer Book Market, Part Four – Programming Languages Q1 07

by | @mikehatora | +Mike Hendrickson | May 16, 2007

In this fourth post [one, two and three are found here] on the State of the Computer Book Market, I will look at programming languages and drill in a little on each language area.

Ignite Boston!

by | @mikehatora | +Mike Hendrickson | May 15, 2007

The first Ignite Boston will be on Thursday, May 31, from 6 to 10 pm at Tommy Doyle’s in Harvard Square, Cambridge, MA.