Scott Knaster

Scott Jay Knaster (born December 26, 1959) is a technical writer who was an early employee of Apple Computer.
==Early life and education==
Knaster studied at from 1976 to 1977.Scott Knaster, LinkedIn. Accessed 2021-11-25. He married his wife Barbara on August 10, 1980.
==Career==
===Apple Computer===
In March 1983, Knaster joined Apple Computer as employee #4426, serving as a technical writer and a technical support manager for the Apple Developer program.First Day in the Mac Group by Scott Knaster, Folklore. 1984-04.If anybody else is looking for names, I'm 4426. by Scott Knaster, Facebook. 2014-01-24. He first worked in the Lisa technical support group, but moved to the Macintosh group in April 1984 to provide developer technical support. He began writing early Macintosh documentation because so little existed at the time.Scott Knaster delivers the second Keynote Address at MacHack 18, CNET. 2009-09-02.
===After Apple===
In 1987, Knaster left Apple to work for former Apple evangelist Guy Kawasaki on 4th Dimension for six months. Afterwards, he met with Steve Jobs and received an offer to work for NeXT. However, Knaster declined because of what would have been a long commute and the lack of information about NeXT at the time.
In 1990, Knaster became the 14th employee of General Magic, where he was a frammistat designer and wrote API and SDK documentation. In June 1996, he joined the Mac Business Unit at Microsoft, writing documentation for programmers and general users until February 2003. In 2005, Knaster joined Google (now Alphabet), serving as a technical writer of developer documentation and customer support for . He also managed Google's developer social communications program and edited the developers' blog.Scott Knaster, PaperCar. Archived 2004-03-31.
===Other work===
Knaster was contracted as a writer of SDK documentation for before it was acquired by Microsoft. He is presently a member of the board of directors of the FOGG Theatre in San Francisco, California.Happy Birthday to the amazing and talented Scott Knaster by FOGG Theatre, Facebook. 2017-12-26.
==Bibliography==
* Cooking with Hypertalk 2.0 (1990, ISBN 978-0553347388)
* How to Write Macintosh Software: The Debugging Reference for Macintosh (2nd edition: 1988, ISBN 978-0672484292; 3rd edition: 1992, ISBN 978-0201608052)
* Macintosh Programming Secrets (1st edition: 1988) (2nd edition: 1992, ISBN 978-0201581348)
* Presenting Magic Cap: A Guide to General Magic's Revolutionary Communicator Software (1994, ISBN 978-0201407402)
* Macworld Discover Internet Explorer 3 (1997, ISBN 978-0764540318)
* MSN the Everyday Web (2001, ISBN 978-0735611405)
* Mac Toys: 12 Cool Projects for Home, Office, and Entertainment (2004, ISBN 978-0764543517)
* Hacking iPod and iTunes (2004, ISBN 978-0764569845)
* Hacking Mac OS X Tiger: Serious Hacks, Mods and Customizations (2005, ISBN 978-0764583452)
* Take Control of Switching to the Mac (2008, ISBN 9781933671048)
* Learn Objective-C on the Mac (2008, ISBN 978-1430218159)
==References==
==External links==
*Scott Knaster official homepage
*Scott Knaster at Facebook
*Scott Knaster at Folklore
*Scott Knaster at O'Reilly
*Scott Knaster at Twitter
*Adjacent to Greatness at YouTube
* at Wikipedia
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