I second this. I've found those posts to be amazingly good. On Wed, Feb 24, 2010 at 5:23 AM, Eric Van Hensbergen <eri...@gmail.com>wrote:
> I personally like the inferno programmers notebook style - it's a nice way > of documenting tips and tricks as well as introducing quick and dirty apps. > I've long thought it a shame we don't have something similar for Plan 9. > > Sent from my iPhone > > > On Feb 24, 2010, at 5:26 AM, John Stalker <stal...@maths.tcd.ie> wrote: > > When I was learning FreeBSD I found this site helpful: >> http://www.freebsddiary.org/ >> >> I think the thing that really makes the FreeBSD Diary work is a >> lack of grand ambitions. The guy who maintains it doesn't try to >> cover everything, and generally doesn't try to explain things he >> doesn't understand. He doesn't normally try to update old entries, >> and often goes months without doing anything. But he has been >> doing this for 12 years now, and has accumulated a good collection >> of articles. As far as I can tell, whenever he needs to do something >> moderately complicated which is not well documented, he makes notes >> and then describes how he did things and posts it. >> >> It would be nice to have something like that for plan9. >> -- >> John Stalker >> School of Mathematics >> Trinity College Dublin >> tel +353 1 896 1983 >> fax +353 1 896 2282 >> >> >
