We’re closing in on the second edition of my book being released and available! I’m super excited about it. I can’t stop thinking about it. On the way back from the O’Reilly Open Source Convention, I started doodling in a new notebook when all “items with an on/off switch” had to be off, and came […]
Pick a beat for release notes
This is fun. Fedora has “beat writers” which harken to journalists tracking a story. Each beat is a section in the release notes. I found it while poking around on the Fedora wiki pages that describe how they do documentation. See fedoraproject.org/wiki/Documentation_Beats. I like this approach for a few reasons. One is that the term […]
From Cement to Spandex – Making PDF and ePub
Which statement is true: “PDFs are like cement.” or “Gentlemen prefer PDF.” Turns out both are true! See my recent OpenStack blog entry, Hacking on Ebooks, for more context and attributions for those statements. We recently held a hackathon which I blogged about earlier to discuss the prep work for creating epub from DocBook XML […]