Archive for the ‘Books’ Category
I've completed and submitted my article on NanoBSD, the "miniature" FreeBSD. At 3000+ words, turned out a bit longer than I had expected, so I hope they won't chop too much of it.
NanoBSD works wonders on PC Engines' ALIX series of boards, so I've used some of those as examples for NanoBSD usage. I [...]
What a week!
It started off with a smashing dinner I was invited to at the Temple of Beef in Düsseldorf, and it ended with good meetings, lots of talk, and a truckload (really!) of gifts I carried home:
Loads of my favorite mustard, a cherry something with lots of alcohol in it called Krumme (to [...]
A couple of Wikis, static XHTML, self-made XML, documents in a custom Lotus Notes database, text files here and there (often in Markdown syntax), and a pile of e-mails contain the bulk of documentation I've created during the past several years at a client. (It's a mess, but it could be worse.) I have got [...]
From Jonathan Oxer, author of Practical Arduino:
They forced us to use Word templates (I don't even have Windows!)
if you want to write a book chose a publisher who doesn't force you to use a product and take a deep look at a formatter such as LaTeX.
Scott Chacon is one of the guys behind github — a hosting site for projects managed by Git distributed version control system. As such, Scott is extremely competent in all things Git, and he wrote a book (or should I say the book) on Git. The book is called Pro Git. I've been using Git [...]
Martin sends me a picture of his bookshelf:
You'll have noticed, that my book Alternative DNS Servers is there. Looks good, next to the other definitive works.
Pro Git Book writes:
I put the content of the book online under a Creative Commons noncommercial 3.0 license. The book is titled ‘Pro Git’ and you can read it or reference it online at http://progit.org.
The actual printed version will be shipping in another few weeks, but as Apress was kind enough to allow me to [...]