I’m at the OpenStack Design Summit this week, and one of the OpenStack companies here, Piston Computing, created a pen that contains a scroll inside. When you open the scroll, you can see all the commands available for the “nova” client, which is how you send commands to the OpenStack Compute API at the command […]
Open Advice Book Now Available
What we wish we had known when we started working on free open source software (FOSS) – that is the premise of this essay collection, Open Advice. What’s especially interesting to me after having read all 42 essays is there isn’t really a pattern like you’d see when looking at “what I would tell my […]
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 […]