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Archive for June, 2006

LaTex vs DocBook

I’m about to embark on a documentation project, and I’ve been thinking quite a bit about the tools I’d ideally like to use for the job. Previously, when I’ve done a lot of writing, it’s been with LaTeX, or on rare, painful, occasion with a word processor or dedicated tech pubs tool like FrameMaker. What I like [...]
The weekend in London, now almost a week past, was sufficiently intense that I didn’t have the energy to write it up as I went along, or indeed to write much of anything about it until now. Of course we didn’t come to any conclusions about one project subsuming the other, but we did gain a [...]
I’m giving a talk on Mercurial at Baypiggies, the San Francisco Bay Area Python user’s group, tomorrow evening at 7:30pm. If you’re a local Mercurial user and we haven’t met, please feel free to come along. If you don’t use Mercurial, you’re welcome to attend and see what it’s all about.
A few weeks ago, Mark Shuttleworth showed up on IRC, and invited several core developers from the Mercurial and Bazaar-NG to visit London, on Canonical, Ltd’s shilling. The purpose of the joint visit is to discuss possible points of collaboration between the two projects. I got to come along as gadfly-in-chief, or filler-of-the-bug-database, or some [...]