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December 29, 2013 by annegentle

A Few of my Favorite Things for 2013

A Few of my Favorite Things for 2013

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This year has been filled with interesting finds, discoveries, and productivity. Plus oxford commas! Here are my favorite things for 2013.

The Hunger Games trilogy, because it’s like a window into a mind of a smart writer who writes with purpose.

The Documentation chapter of the Developer Support Handbook has to be one of my very favorite things I discovered this year. I’m on the Developer Relations Group team at Rackspace and this is a great handbook for all of our team.

Animated GIFs, pronounced jifs, am I right? OpenStack Reactions cracks me up.


Grace Hopper Conference by the Anita Borg Institute, especially the Open Source day, and the GNOME Outreach Program for Women which OpenStack started participating in this year. Women in technology are my favorite!

The Houzz App on my Android tablet for eye candy while messy remodeling was actually happening. Plus it’s the best content remix site I’ve seen in a while, more targeted than Pinterest.

Photo kids

Probably the best photo of my kids this year, I make it a favorite because at their ages it’s difficult to get one of the both of them.

OpenStack Docs Boot Camp

OpenStack Security Guide book sprint, read it at http://docs.openstack.org/sec/.

oreilly-openstack-ops-guide

OpenStack Operations Guide book sprint, now an O’Reilly edition, read it at http://docs.openstack.org/ops/.

How about you? What are some of your favorite things from this past year?

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