Puppet 0.25.0 - code-named “Elmo” has been released! Luke, everyone at ReductiveLabs, the community and I have all put a lot of work into this release … and blood, sweat, potentially some tears and probably a lot of bourbon. The tarball is available at: http://reductivelabs.com/downloads/puppet/puppet-0.25.0.tar.gz And the Ruby Gem at: http://reductivelabs.com/downloads/puppet/puppet-0.25.0.gem What’s Changed? There are substantial changes in Puppet 0.25.0 and more changes to come in the future. Most of the changes in 0.

I am a big fan of Frank Miller’s work (Sin City, Hardboiled, 300, Batman (the Dark Knight era), and Ronin). My favourite of his works though is the Martha Washington series - which was drawn by the equally magnificent Dave Gibbons. The series started with the “Give Me Liberty” (the title taken from the Patrick Henry - “I know not what course others may take but as for me give me liberty or give me death.

So every couple of years I need to recreate my GPG key and revoke the old one. This is a fairly annoying as it is a whole set of commands that I seem to mentally blank immediately after use - the same with SSL certificates - thank dog for cacert.org and automation. :) So this time when I needed my new key I thought I’d see if someone else had instructions.

I love books and libraries so when I saw a post entitled - Hot Library Smut - well I had to re-post it. It’s completely NSFW … nah I lie .. you might drool on the keyboard though. :) P.S. One of the libraries is Trinity College Library where the Book of Kells lives - interesting trivia fact - several pieces of the text are of the Gospels are wrong in the Book - this error I particularly like.

Congratulations to Scott Chacon on his new book Pro Git. I am highly jealous - this was one of the things I’ve really wanted to write about and was on my list of things to pitch to my publisher. As is the nature of these things I am not as smart as I think I am and someone else also had the idea. :) It’s a great little title and Scott being one of the GitHub guys is well positioned to right the definitive book on Git.