In a few hours I’m leaving with my daughters for a California History class trip to Sutter’s Fort, in old town Sacramento. The entire class are dressing in period costumes and acting as docents for the various exhibits all throughout the day on Tuesday. I’ll be playing “Owen Sumner”, who came to Sutter’s Fort in [...]
Massive props to John Poelstra and FESCo for the creation and stewardship of the Fedora feature process. As a documenter, this initiative was pretty important to me. I wanted to see that our release overview/summary and full release notes actually talked about features that mattered and were real. Too often we found out about a [...]
I highly appreciated all the points raised within this self-referential template: http://shunn.com/format/story.html In this digital world, we often forget why there are conventions for dead paper that are different than for computer screens.
Seam developer and fellow Red Hatter Pete Muir has posted about his adventures with getting Seam running on Fedora 8: http://in.relation.to/Bloggers/SeamOnOpenJDK Best thing about his adventure? Pete ran a “highly unscientific test” and found out that IcedTea outperformed other JDKs: This piqued my interest, so I did a highly unscientific test and installed the Sun [...]
We’ve gotten pretty good at community written release notes. A few more silly bugs for Fedora 8 than before (and my bad for not helping to make them better — this is the first release since FC4 where I didn’t edit the entire release notes before they went over for translation), but really nothing to [...]
This is a marker post, ignore it since the value is entirely for me. As announced in “I, Quaid, I have moved my blog to my personal domain, iquaid.org. That’s it, carry on. ## 30 ##
