Dinis Cruz Blog

In the last couple weeks I been been working on a book called "Generation Z Developers" which you can now get it for free from Leanpub

As with all my books, the content is released under an creative commons license and hosted on this GitHub repo

One difference with this book, is that I'm using Hugo for the static site generation of the book and the leanpub content generation (and it is helping a lot)

I'm including below the current introduction to the book which provides a good explanation of why I wrote it.

Let me know what you think of it, and what other topics or ideas should be included.

https://leanpub.com/generation-z

I just published the 'Hacking Portugal' book which is based on the "Hacking Portugal and making it a global player in Software development"  presentation I delivered at BSidesLisbon in November 2016.

You can get it from amazon


or at  https://leanpub.com/hacking-portugal/

I just published version v0.63 of the SecDevOps Risk Workflow book.

You can get the book (for free) at https://leanpub.com/secdevops (when you become a reader you will get email alerts with every release)

The diff for this version (with v0.60) shows 113 commits, 63 changed files, 667 additions and 185 deletions.

Here is the email I just sent to the OWASP-leaders list

SecDevOps Risk Workflow Book (please help with your feedback)

Hi fellow OWASP leaders and friends, over the past 4 years I made the move from 'breaking apps' into becoming a real Developer, an AppSec Trainer and creating multiple AppSec teams (protecting large companies from real attacks and helping developers to write secure code)

To try to capture my experiences, to help a wider audience and to get some feedback, I've been creating a book on leanpub called SecDevOps Risk Workflow which I would really appreciate if you could check it out.

You can get it for free at https://leanpub.com/secdevops 

This book will be based on the ideas I've been talking about in my "New Era of Software with modern Application Security" presentation.

The plan is to use my experience with Leanpub (where I have published 7 books), with the content being hosted on GitHub and published early and ofter.

You can get the latest version from https://leanpub.com/Practical_Eclipse for FREE by choosing the $0 minimum price.

Here is the email I send to my readers:

You can get the latest version from https://leanpub.com/Practical_Git for FREE (by choosing the $0 minimum price).

Here is the email I send to my readers:

Hi, thanks for being reader of my Practical Git and GitHub book. I just released a new version which contains a large number of content and images fixes.

This version is very similar to the previous release, but I'm planning to make big changes in the next months.

I'm going to add a number of new chapters and remove content that might be better in a different book.

I really would like your feedback, so please don't hesitate to contact me at dinis.cruz@owasp.org or directly at the GitHub repo that contains all content and current Issues: https://github.com/DinisCruz/Book_Practical_Git/issues

You can get the latest version from https://leanpub.com/Practical_Jni4Net

Here is the email I send to my readers:

After releasing the "Practical AngularJS",  Practical Git and GitHub,  Practical Jni4Net and Practical Eclipse books, here is an equivalent book containing the O2 Platform Tools related blog posts.

This new eBook has 113 pages and is made of 23 blog posts published in the last couple years.

The posts are grouped by topic and represent a number of mini-tools created by the O2 Platform

This eBook is available at https://leanpub.com/Practical_O2Platform

After creating a number of Leanpub based books, I've come up with a workflow that works quite well for me.

This workflow is based on Managing LeanPub book's Markdown content using Git and GitHub (synced to back to LeanPub via DropBox) which is supported by the following technologies:

After releasing the "Practical AngularJS",  Practical Git and GitHub,  Practical Jni4Net and Practical Eclipse books, here is an equivalent book containing my OWASP related blog posts.

This new eBook has 165 pages and is made of 67 blog posts published in the last couple years.

The posts are grouped by topic and represent a lot of my thinking about OWASP, the current AppSec industry and other philosophical ideas.

This eBook is available at https://leanpub.com/Thoughts_OWASP

After releasing the "Practical AngularJS",  Practical Git and GitHub and Practical Jni4Net books, here is an equivalent book containing my Eclipse related blog posts.

This new book has 363 pages and is made of 33 blog posts published in the last 9 months.

As with the first release of the other books, I'm starting with the original chronological/published order, and will try later to figure out a better logical way to group these posts together.

The article's Html was converted by LeanPub into Markdown, who also created the eBook versions linked below (pdf, mobi, epub and online)

After releasing "Practical AngularJS" and Practical Git and GitHub, here is an equivalent book containing my Jni4Net related posts.

This new book has 74 pages and is made of 13 blog posts published in the last 16 months.

As with the first release of the other books, I'm starting with the original chronological/published order, and will try later to figure out a better logical way to group these posts together.

The article's Html was converted by LeanPub into Markdown, who also created the eBook versions linked below (pdf, mobi, epub and online)

The original releases of my Practical AngularJS and Practical Git books were made using LeanPub's DropBox model, which was OK, but lacked two massive features: version control and interface for community interactions.

Inspired by Dennis Groves' idea and workflow described in OWASP Press and using LeanPub with GitHub and DropBox, I was able to use Git and GitHub to track changes on these books.

Which means that from now, not only can I use the GitHub repositories to track/document changes I make, but you can also submit your ideas/problems directly as GitHub issues and fixes as Pull Requests :)

Here is the GitHub repo for the AngularJS book: https://github.com/DinisCruz/Book_Practical_AngularJS

Here is the GitHub repo for the Git/Hub book: https://github.com/DinisCruz/Book_Practical_Git

For an example of how to use GitHub to submit and fix an content problem see this issue https://github.com/DinisCruz/Book_Practical_Git/issues/1 which was fixed by this commit https://github.com/DinisCruz/Book_Practical_Git/commit/7c53c396f4209bb2521dccadbfcfbe8c90318ba7

After releasing "Practical AngularJS", here is an equivalent book containing my Git and GitHub related posts.

The book has 411 pages and is made of 60 blog posts published in the last 18 months.

As with the first release of the AngularJS book, I'm starting with the original chronological/published order, and will try later to figure out a better logical way to group these posts together.

The article's Html was converted by LeanPub into Markdown, who also created the eBook versions linked below (pdf, mobi, epub and online)

Using the Leanpub system available on https://leanpub.com/Practical_AngularJS there were 567 downloads/registrations and 24 purchases (which is a really great, if we take into account that the book is still in a early beta format, and they 'choose to buy', since there was the option available to get it for free).

I just released a book based on the 23 AngularJS posts currently published in this blog (as a public beta).

The article's Html was converted by LeanPub into Markdown, who also created the eBook versions linked below (pdf, mobi, epub and online). The printed version was created at lulu.

At the moment the book can be downloaded for free and the book has a small markup (you can also chose to pay for the digital version).

Please take a look and let me know what you think of the structure, font, layout, order, content, voice, idea, etc...

Here are the links to the multiple places you can get the book:

• eBook (PDF, EPub or MOBI) at Leanpub (I've set the minimum price to zero so you can download it for free)
• Printed book (Paperback, 163 pages) at Lulu.com 
• Online : LeanPub also publishes the entire book available in one long HTML page (note that there are LOTS of images to load in this page)

[UPDATE Mar/2014]: following what started with the post below, I have now published a book created at Leanpub on AngularJS. See Published Beta version of "Practical AngularJS" Book (in both digital and print format) for all the details

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Dennis Groves called my attention to the really interesting/powerful online publishing leanpub.com website/service (which he is trying for publishing OWASP books).

I just tried with the content from this blog, and as a first pass, I'm quite impressed with the results.

To get the 934 page pdf (or EPUB/MOBI file) for this blog: