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I've got to disagree with the chapter about settings files. Instead of maintaining multiple different settings for different environments, make your default settings file pull modi…

This. And if you don't want to go to the length of maintaining your own Chef server you can opt for hosted Chef: http://www.opscode.com/hosted-chef/

Here's [1] an interview Nick gave just a couple of hours ago on Bloomsberg. [1] http://www.bloomberg.com/video/slacker-16-year-old-whiz-laun...

I think it's also worth linking to David Beazley's Curious Course on Coroutines and Concurrency [1]. It's exploring the ideas of a task scheduler implemented in Python. This articl…

The issue I had with Pyjamas is that the whole tool-chain and compilation was a bit borked and the documentation a bit vague. After playing around with it for a day I decided it wa…

I really like that they opted to do everything over SSH in contrast to both Chef and Puppet that need a client/server configuration or at least some of their packages installed loc…