Re: [Boston.pm] Weekend book project: write a book for Free Software Foundation

2009-03-13 Thread Duane Bronson
I'm not much of a writer or an editor, but I would like to propose a different the title: It's Rude to Point : An Introduction to the Unix Command Line When we first learn to communicate with other humans, we start out pointing and making gurgling noises. As we grow, we realize that

Re: [Boston.pm] Weekend book project: write a book for Free Software Foundation

2009-03-13 Thread Andy Oram
Very cute! Maybe we can work that in; I'll put it on the page about the book and I suggest you look at the book something during the March 21/22 weekend. I don't want to change the title at this point because our attitude toward point-and-click isn't really that it's rude; just that it's

Re: [Boston.pm] Weekend book project: write a book for Free Software Foundation

2009-03-13 Thread Dustin Masterson
On Fri, Mar 13, 2009 at 8:36 AM, Duane Bronson It's Rude to Point : An Introduction to the Unix Command Line Hey, that's great and it makes for a very intriguing catch/gotcha for folks to want to more and at least read the back of the book to see how in the heck It's Rude to Point could be

Re: [Boston.pm] Git workshop for April

2009-03-13 Thread Steve Scaffidi
On Mar 6, 2009, at 3:13 PM, Tom Metro tmetro-boston...@vl.com wrote: Steve Scaffidi wrote: - the Zen of git - unlearn what you know I recommend that you use that as your talk title. :-) It's apt, but perhaps not in the way you're thinking - At $work I recently posted a wiki page about