Lynda and Educational Content

Just found http://www.lynda.com.

Unlike random YouTube videos, these are professionally edited.

Not everything on YouTube is poorly edited. Some are really good.

Having done a few webcasts for O'Reilly (and I have another scheduled for January 2016,) I know that my "you knows" -- you know -- and my …

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Events: PyCon 2016, OSCon 2016

Many years ago ('07?) I went to my first PyCon. My situation changed and I didn't get to another PyCon until last year.

The story is a kind of major dumbosity. In '07 I could expense the trip as education. In '08, I'd lost that feature of my employment. After …

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Needlessly Redundant Overcommunication and DevOps

Date Tags DevOps
At the "day job" I use a Windows laptop. It was essential for a project I might have started, but didn't. So now I'm stuck with it until the budgetary gods deem that it's been paid for and I can request something more useful. Mostly, however, Windows is fine. It …
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The Internet of Things

Wunderbar. A whole bunch of nicely integrated data collection modules. I prefer to hack around with Arduino. I'm not sure why -- perhaps it's the lure of building approximately from scratch. But this is very cool. No soldering. Just start gathering data. I have a half-built Arduino-based device to measure the …

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Chapters to Edit: What do I do instead?

I'm starting to get chapters back from the technical reviewers. This is an important part of the writing process: correcting my mistakes and clarifying things that confused the reviewers.

Packt has had a uniformly excellent cadre of technical reviewers. At this point, I've worked with something like a dozen people …

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