Publications by Kas Thomas (partial list)
Novell documentation samples
http://www.novell.com/documentation/extend5/index.html
(see, in particular, the Composer user guides for LDAP Connect, HTML Connect, JMS Connect, Telnet, and JDBC, plus the Process Manager User's Guide)
Blog
http://asserttrue.blogspot.com/
PlanetPDF articles
http://www.planetpdf.com/author.asp?author=Kas%20Thomas
Dr. Dobbs Journal article
http://www.von-oppen.com/doc/ddj/articles/1991/9102/9102b/9102b.htm
MacTech articles
(full index at http://www.mactech.com/articles/mt_indices/T_Authors.html)
- 3D Programming With QuickDraw 3D
- Poor Man's Bryce Part I
- Poor Man's Bryce Part II
- Poor Man's Bryce Part III
- Natural Object Rotation
- Photoshop Plug-Ins, Part 1
- Writing A Photoshop Plug-In, Part 2
- Fast Blit Strategies
- After Effects Plugins
- PDF Intro
- Viewpoint
- PDFLib
- Scalable Vector Graphics: An Introduction for Programmers
- Dynamic PDF
- Acrobat Plugins
- How to Harness the Power of Associative Arrays
AcroForms.com blogs (over 100 links)
http://web.archive.org/web/20000303055031/www.acroforms.com/cgi-bin/showrage.pl
Acrobat 5 PDF Bible
Yours truly wrote Chapter 19. See Acknowledgements section of book.
Acrobat JavaScript API documentation (Acrobat 5)
Also known as Adobe Acrobat Tech Note #5186. Yours truly wrote the first 40 pages.
SVG articles
I wrote some of the first articles about Scalable Vector Graphics for WebDeveloper.com.
http://www.webdeveloper.com/design/design_svg_intro.html
http://www.webdeveloper.com/design/design_svg_example_2.html
Book: Fly the Engine (revised edition)
This book (which I wrote in 1993 and revised in 2007) has become something of a classic in aviation circles. It's available online from Lulu.com at http://www.lulu.com/content/1291090.
Article on Mobil AV-1 Oil (from TBO Advisor)
In the 1990s, I published a technical newsletter for aircraft owners called TBO Advisor. One of the more popular articles from the newsletter was this one on Mobil synthetic oil:
http://kas.e.thomas.googlepages.com/Mobil.pdf
Miscellaneous
ImageJ Plug-in
I wrote a JavaScript binding (with scripting editor+console) for the NIH ImageJ open-source image editor. See http://rsb.info.nih.gov/ij/plugins/javascript.html for complete package, including documentation.
Callisto 1.0 ShareWare for Mac
In the 1990s, I wrote a PhotoShop plug-in called Callisto, which was a 3D displacement modeller that made extensive use of Apple's QuickDraw3D API. The plug-in won a four-mouse rating from MacWeek. Sadly, no documentation survives. But I found this neat screenshot on The Wayback Machine.
