From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <52CAFBB5-6F50-4FC0-A529-DA1D76D58B76@gmail.com> References: <734ef6d7-3357-4194-8650-48b4c3ad0007@o5g2000vbb.googlegroups.com> <201002241126.aa65935@salmon.maths.tcd.ie> <52CAFBB5-6F50-4FC0-A529-DA1D76D58B76@gmail.com> Date: Wed, 24 Feb 2010 08:00:42 -0800 Message-ID: <3e1162e61002240800v681f93a9v9501a4cf7e44cf1f@mail.gmail.com> From: David Leimbach To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net> Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary=000e0cd61a52bb88a604805ac44b Subject: Re: [9fans] How 'bout a 9 USER site? Topicbox-Message-UUID: da7bcfba-ead5-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 --000e0cd61a52bb88a604805ac44b Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 I second this. I've found those posts to be amazingly good. On Wed, Feb 24, 2010 at 5:23 AM, Eric Van Hensbergen 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 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 >> >> > --000e0cd61a52bb88a604805ac44b Content-Type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable I second this. =A0I've found those posts to be amazingly good.=A0
On Wed, Feb 24, 2010 at 5:23 AM, Eric Van Hens= bergen <ericvh@gma= il.com> wrote:
I personally like the inferno programmers n= otebook style - it's a nice way of documenting tips and tricks as well = as introducing quick and dirty apps. =A0I'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 <stalker@maths.tcd.ie> wrote:

When I was learning FreeBSD I found this site helpful:
http://www.freeb= sddiary.org/

I think the thing that really makes the FreeBSD Diary work is a
lack of grand ambitions. =A0The guy who maintains it doesn't try to
cover everything, and generally doesn't try to explain things he
doesn't understand. =A0He doesn't normally try to update old entrie= s,
and often goes months without doing anything. =A0But he has been
doing this for 12 years now, and has accumulated a good collection
of articles. =A0As 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



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