From: Brian Candler Date: 2011-09-07T12:36:26+09:00 Subject: Re: posts on Unix systems programming Eric Wong wrote in post #1020497: > I would like to do a series of mailing list posts on the subject of Unix > systems programming in Ruby. I only intend to cover standardized, > POSIX-compliant features of the standard Ruby distribution. No > extensions or Linux-only parts. > > Is there anybody who would NOT want these posts in ruby-talk? Yes, me. A mailing list is for discussion (ruby *talk*), and apart from occasional announcements, I don't think it is for broadcast content. In my opinion, if everyone decided to mirror their personal blog onto ruby-talk then it would make ruby-talk useless; and although what you're doing sounds great, I don't think it is any more exceptional than many other series of blog postings on ruby-related matters. So I would rather see it in something like a github wiki. Then it's easy to link to, and it can also be easily updated and maintained going forwards. Of course, feel free to post an announcement here with the URL. > Most people would start a blog/wiki, but I dislike dealing with _any_ > browsers/formatting/layout/presentation, so absolutely no > markup/markdown/troff/textile if I'm to do this. github wiki's "markdown" is about as close to plain text as you can get. Basically all you need to do is write paragraphs, and wrap code examples like this: ~~~ # First ruby program puts "Hello world" ~~~ Hey presto, your document suddenly renders in HTML nicely, and can be exported to PDF etc (google for "pandoc" for my favoured tool). It's so worth taking 5 minutes to do this. (And I agree with you that life's too short to do textile, troff, latex etc; focus on the content) Regards, Brian. -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.