Scott Knaster is an American technical writer who has written many books, mostly dealing with Macintosh

Macintosh

The Macintosh , or Mac, is a series of several lines of personal computers designed, developed, and marketed by Apple Inc. The first Macintosh was introduced by Apple's then-chairman Steve Jobs on January 24, 1984; it was the first commercially successful personal computer to feature a mouse and a...

 programming and using the Macintosh. He has worked for such companies as Apple Inc., General Magic

General Magic

General Magic was a company co-founded by Bill Atkinson, Andy Hertzfeld and Marc Porat that developed a new kind of handheld communications device they called a "personal intelligent communicator", which was a PDA precursor that stressed communications....

, Microsoft

Microsoft

Microsoft Corporation is an American public multinational corporation headquartered in Redmond, Washington, USA that develops, manufactures, licenses, and supports a wide range of products and services predominantly related to computing through its various product divisions...

, Danger Inc., and Google

Google

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.

As of March 2011, he is the editor of the Google Code Blog.

Knaster's first books on Macintosh programming in the late 1980s and early 1990s were considered required reading for Macintosh programmers for many years.

In addition to writing books, Knaster writes for several periodicals and web sites including Macworld

Macworld

Macworld is a web site and monthly computer magazine dedicated to Apple Macintosh products. It is published by Mac Publishing, which is headquartered in San Francisco, California...

, MacTech

MacTech

MacTech is the journal of Apple technology, a monthly magazine for software developers, system administrators, and other technical users of the Apple Macintosh line of computers....

, and O'Reilly Media's Mac Dev Center.

Knaster is a regular speaker at Macworld Expo, MacHack (until it ended), and sits on the panel of Apple's Stump the Experts

Stump the experts

Stump the Experts is a popular session of Apple Inc's annual Worldwide Developers Conference conference. The first Stump took place at the WWDC92 in San Jose. - Structure :...

. Knaster appeared on the October 14, 2010 episode of John Wants Answers to discuss baseball.

List of books written by Scott Knaster

• Cooking with Hypertalk 2.0
• 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
• 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)

Knaster was also the series editor for Addison-Wesley’s Macintosh Inside Out, a collection of 19 technical books published over a 3-year period in the 1990s.