Question yourself v2
by Sven Vermeulen, post on Tue 11 May 2010A new version of the Quizzer webscript is available. The demo has also been updated with quick tests on the first few chapters of Linux Sea.
More exercises on the following chapters will follow soon.
Updates to the script include visual accept/reject of single-choice and multiple choice answers and …
Question yourself
by Sven Vermeulen, post on Sun 02 May 2010Do you ever write down things in the hope you never forget them, but still think it would be better if you could somehow take a test of that subject from time to time to make sure you don't forget?
I do, and I found it quite difficult to keep …
A dozen pages added
by Sven Vermeulen, post on Thu 22 April 2010Just a quick heads-up that a dozen pages in the Linux Sea book have been added. Nothing spectacular, just a few more paragraphs on services/runlevels, a few updates on software management and on boot failure resolutions.
Translations to "Linux Sea"
by Sven Vermeulen, post on Wed 02 December 2009A few people have contacted me if they were allowed to translate the online book I'm writing (Linux Sea). Of course they are, the license allows it. However, I recommend to wait a bit. At this moment, I'm not going to release the docbook sources (I'm not writing it in …
Small updates on Linux Sea
by Sven Vermeulen, post on Mon 19 October 2009A few updates have made it to the Linux Sea book:
- Information regarding ndiswrapper
- Some information about udev and the symlinks that it creates
The PDF version has been updated as well.
Darwin Information Typing Architecture
by Sven Vermeulen, post on Sat 18 April 2009Having documented a lot in LaTeX (back in the old days at the university), GuideXML (Gentoo's document markup language) and DocBook (Linux Sea) I'm now pointing my arrows at DITA, the Darwin Information Typing Architecture.
DITA "forces" the technical writer in separating the content of his document in specialized subjects …