Given the abundance of online communities for computing book authors .. oh wait! there is no such a community. So excuse moi if I piggy-back on this thread; I don't have that many options, except contacting individual authors and asking them for help in private.
At least when I ask here others will have a chance to see the feedback. Unlike email.
This isn't the best place for that, since most people will never see this thread a month from now, and because it's irrelevant.
Much better, IMO, to either:
a) Ask this question as an "Ask HN" thread. Would still disappear, but at least be more relevant and might attract more people who know this stuff.
b) Even better, ask it on some StackExchange Q&A forum. Perhaps on the superuser.com site, since they deal with general computing, but maybe you can find an even better one.
It would be more appropriate to do an askhn: post instead of piggy backing on this thread. If people think your question is interesting enough it should get attention and I think it would.
There is a difference between off-topic on HN and off-topic in this specific topic. No one on HN hates you, and if you were to make a Ask HN post about it instead of continuing to post here, I'm sure you could even get some valuable feedback.
Using a new account is providing me enough cognitive dissonance to post again... TBH it's kind of arbitrary I'm using this account. :-p
I'd be happy to proof read (in addition to Computer Science I also study English). Although admittedly my experience with the JVM approaches zero, so I can't be of much help there. Good to go on the CL pieces though.
WOW!