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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 [...]

Monday, March 8th, 2010 at 14:44 | 0 comments
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Friday, March 5th, 2010 at 20:35 | 2 comments
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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 [...]

Friday, February 26th, 2010 at 18:46 | 0 comments
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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 [...]

Thursday, February 25th, 2010 at 20:34 | 1 comment
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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.

Tuesday, December 29th, 2009 at 11:24 | 0 comments
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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 [...]

Monday, September 21st, 2009 at 13:30 | 0 comments
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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.

Thursday, August 27th, 2009 at 07:34 | 4 comments
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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 [...]

Wednesday, July 29th, 2009 at 13:01 | 0 comments
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