Matt Pietrek
Matt Pietrek (born January 27, 1966) is an American spirits and cocktail writer and historian who writes both the Rum Wonk[1] and Cocktail Wonk [2] web sites as well as several books on these topics. Pietrek and his wife, Carrie Smith, publish books via their Wonk Press business.[3]
Previously, he was a computer specialist and author specializing in Microsoft Windows and wrote several books on the topic. Between 1993 and 2001 he wrote the column "Under the Hood" in MSJ (and subsequently) MSDN Magazine. Between 2004 and 2011 he worked at Microsoft on Visual Studio and Hyper-V.
Books
- Pietrek, Matt (November 30, 2022). Modern Caribbean Rum: A Contemporary Reference to the Region's Essential Spirit. WonkPress. ISBN 978-0-578-27139-2.
- Pietrek, Matt (May 5, 2019). Minimalist Tiki: A Cocktail Wonk Look at Classic Libations and the Modern Tiki Vanguard. WonkPress. ISBN 978-0-578-21844-1.
- Pietrek, Matt (November 1, 1995). Windows 95 System Programming Secrets. John Wiley & Sons. ISBN 1-56884-318-6.
- Pietrek, Matt (May 31, 1993). Windows Internals. Addison-Wesley Professional. ISBN 0-201-62217-3.
- Schulman, Andrew; Maxey, David; Pietrek, Matt (August 1, 1992). Undocumented Windows. Addison-Wesley. ISBN 0-201-60834-0.
References
- Rum Wonk Pietrek's rum blog.
- Cocktail Wonk Pietrek's cocktail blog.
- Wonk Press Publisher site.
External links
- Pietrek's MSDN blog
- Pietrek's web site
- A Crash Course on the Depths of Win32 Structured Exception Handling - The first and most famous article describing Microsoft's Structured Exception Handling mechanism on the implementation level
- "An In-Depth Look into the Win32 Portable Executable File Format," Part1, Part2 — Pietrek's 2002 MSJ articles describing Win32 Portable Executable file format
- Peering Inside the PE: A Tour of the Win32 Portable Executable File Format — Pietrek's 1994 MSJ article, the first publicly available material on the subject.
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