[ad_1] Over the years I’ve learned a number of programming languages on my own, including Perl. One learning tool I figured out is to use some sort of language reference to avoid the frustration of working through several chapters in a manual just to figure out a starting point. Another good learning trick is to…

[ad_1] The Internet Archive, Project Gutenberg, and Google Books are wonderful sources of historical books, but the finished products of their digitization efforts, while thorough and functional, lack that last bit of polish. For example, one of my interests is historical cooking, specifically Georgian and Regency British cookery and the contemporary period in American cookery,…

[ad_1] About the author Nigel Babu – Nigel is the Gluster CI architect working out of India. He loves open source as it enables him to contribute to an ever-growing intellectual pool of knowledge. He’s a Mozilla contributor and when he isn’t working he likes to cook or run long distances. Nobody is sure if…

[ad_1] About the author Jason Baker – Jason is passionate about using technology to make the world more open, from software development to bringing sunlight to local governments. He is particularly interested in data visualization/analysis, DIY/maker culture, simulations/modeling, geospatial technologies, and cloud computing, especially OpenStack. Follow him on Twitter or Google+. Learn what’s happening this…