This book was basically a lifesaver when it came to setting up custom configurations for our various student computer labs. First rate!

I’ve been working on and off, but in somewhat sophisticated ways, with plists and bash scripts to automate setting up preferences for about a year and a half. And I had figured a lot out by myself (drawing on the wisdom of the web), but pretty inefficiently and painfully. Briegel’s book, though, makes lots of things I struggled to figure out crystal clear, and resolves fundamental questions that elsewhere on the web stilled seem nebulous or in dispute. This is a great resource. It’s a text that covers fundamentals systematically. It will save you time and give you confidence.