I have always wanted a simple way of managing my bash file settings (.bashrc, .bash_profile and the like). I had built a system much like this one, but it didn't work very well. So I created a ground-up rewrite.
You can find the latest code for _Dot_Files on the project's github page.
Enjoy
I'll be presenting at the Utah Open Source Conference (UTOSC2009).
My two presentations are on the Cobbler project.
I'll be giving a presentation entitled "Introduction to Cobbler" which deals with the installation, configuration, and initial use of the Cobbler system.
My second presentation is "Cobbler Power Tools" and will teach you how to make your Cobbler server that much more useful and powerful.
Come out and enjoy the conference, there will be many different presentations and something for the whole family on Saturday. More details can be found at the UTOSC home page.
The second conference presentation I attended was "Open source and Charitable Giving". Which was a married couple talking about a project called Qimo which is a Linux distro for kids, which they use for the computers they give away from their charity.
I hadn't thought a lot about it before but working on Open Source Software/Tech segues well into the charitable realm.
Today I'm going to be liveblogging from the Atlanta Linux Fest
The first presentation I attended was "Her PR Problem/Tooting the Horns of Women in Open Source" by Rikki Kite. Even though her presentation was about women in Open Source, there were many things she covered on marketing yourself.
She talked about overcoming "Imposter Syndrome" which is simply not being able to internalize your accomplishments. Another topic was the a good way to self promote, she called it:
Self promote without self promoting aka Tooting someone else's horn.
Also she talked about something called the "Daily Affirmations for Women in Open Source" by someone named Tiffany B Brown, which are:
- I know my shit
- Stop Trippin'
- Pretend I know
- I will be a braggart
The only item above I HAD a problem with was the one "Pretend I know" I thought that pretending that you know could cause problems, but after asking Rikki about it she said it was more of a confidence thing instead of a knowledge thing.
More to come as I get to other sessions.
I was having trouble keeping my Projects and Presentation pages up to date. I was always creating new projects, and presentation materials, however I always forgot to update the corresponding pages in Movable Type. I decided to make it easier to keep those pages updated.
The system I use is based on Mod_Include, MultiMarkdown and Movable Type.
I've finally posted the first draft of my cobbler presentation materials. I'm not done with them, as I need to finish my remote-control system to do some screencasts. You can find the materials here.
Speaking of presentations, I've re-vamped some of the pages on this site. The two I've updated are the Presentations and Projects pages. These pages were long neglected, and weren't updated as new projects or presentation materials were made available. Now these pages will no longer get out of date as I've made them automatically update as new projects or presentation materials are posted. Watch for a forthcoming blog post about how to accomplish the same thing with your own Movable Type installation.
Until next time.
-- Goozbach
Inspired by the likes of Joseph Hall and Alton Brown. I have spend the last few years working on a chocolate chip cookie recipe. People have been asking about how I make these cookies for a long while. To respond to all of them, I'm going to post my recipe and methods here.
I've been a fan of the MultiMarkdown for quite a while now. I keep all of my important notes in this format, which is easy to write with just a simple text editor.
I wanted to be able to copy or sync my *.mark files to my web server and have them automatically be rendered as XHTML. I looked into a couple of ways of doing this. One of which is the Text::MultiMarkdown::ApacheHandler Perl module Apache handler. The downside is that this handler doesn't work out of the box in Apache2.2.
Read on to see my solution. I've also seen a cgi based apache handler done by reppep as chronicled here. The only problem is that he's using the original Markdown. I've long been a fan of the extended syntax, and output formats I can get from MultiMarkdown. So I've build a similar script to what reppep has done.
This year I'm not going to be able to make it to the Utah Open Source Conference. This makes me sad. So to get everyone excited. I'm FINALLY blogging about the videos which were taken of my presentation at last year's event.
You can watch an interview which I gave for OpensourceTV here:
The first part of my presentation on Virtualization here:
and the second part here:
In our professional lives we often spend a great deal of time in one sort of presentation or another. A PowerPoint slide show for work, a story to our children at bedtime, "selling" your boss on your next big idea, or simply "selling" yourself as an entrepreneur.
A properly created presentation can be extremely powerful. It can mean the difference between getting that new contract with the Johnson firm and spending the next four months trying to find new customers. Perhaps your sub-par presentation is all that's keeping your small business from catching the eye of some big venture capital firm.
Presentations are a big part of being involved in the Open Source movement. Conferences, user group meetings, etc. Being a proponent of open source gives us quite a few opportunities to present.
Come an learn how a proper presentation is more than "not putting everybody to sleep". We will cover everything from preparation to handouts, PowerPoint decks to no slides whatsoever, handing "that guy in the second row" to "Wowing the room. You might even learn what a "bathroom review" is.
I promise you won't be disappointed.
Thurs April 17th 7:30pm to ~9:30pm
Gambrell Hall Classroom 1C
Emory University School of Law
1301 Clifton Road
Atlanta, GA 30322
