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Apr 27 / 8:30am

CFEngine talks at PICC'12 conference

There will be several CFEngine-related classes and talks at the PICC'12 conference (Professional IT Community Conference) on May 11-12th, in New Jersey. I will be talking about using CFEngine as part of your security infrastructure. My colleague Joe Netzel will be talking about migration from CFEngine 2 to CFEngine 3, so if you are using CF2 and have been considering (or dreading) the migration, make sure to come by! Aleksey Tsalolikhin will give an introductory class to CFEngine. And Mark Burgess will give a class not related to CFEngine, but to the perils and skills needed to survive as a technical person in the "business world".

If you are coming to the conference, we look forward to seeing you there!

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Mar 24 / 1:23am

Learning CFEngine 3 has been released

I am ecstatic to announce that the book is now officially released!

via blog.cf-learn.info

I am so happy :-)

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Jan 4 / 1:16pm

CFEngine posts moving to cf-learn.info

I have been blogging about CFEngine here for a while (it's my most frequent tag). As of now, I'm starting to post all CFEngine-related posts to http://blog.cf-learn.info/, which is part of the web site for my book "Learning CFEngine 3". In this way, I intend to group all CFEngine-related content over there. I will still cross-post relevant things here, but if you want to stay fully up to date on my CFEngine writings, please subscribe over there as well.

I hope to see you around!
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Dec 15 / 2:22am

New website for "Learning CFEngine 3"

I'm happy to announce that the website for my book is now live at http://cf-learn.info/.

In this website you will find:

  • General information about the book. 
  • A discussion forum for any type of questions, feedback or suggestions about the book. 
  • Downloadable code examples from the book, plus (over time) many other new examples. 
  • List of Errata, and access to the Errata system at O'Reilly 
  • A blog devoted to the book and to CFEngine. 

The site is fairly empty at the moment (the blog, the forum and the errata page are live, I encourage you to participate, particularly if you have purchased the Early Release version of the book and want to provide any sort of feedback), but content will grow over time.

Check it out! And of course, let me know what you think.

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Oct 25 / 10:53pm

"Introduction to CFEngine 3 Nova" webinar

A new version of CFEngine 3 Nova was released today, and to go with it, there will be a free webinar called "Introduction to CFEngine 3 Nova" on November 2nd. It will be presented by one of the members of the core CFEngine team, and it will be a great opportunity to learn more about the new and improved capabilities in this release. If you are interested in CFEngine and maybe thinking of going the commercial route, or you need more information to decide, make sure to attend!

A new version of CFEngine Community (3.2.3), was also released today.
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Oct 19 / 12:21am

New job, new book

Today I have two big announcements to make.

First, as of this week I have a new job, I am now working with CFEngine AS, the company that develops and maintains cfengine. As you know if you read my blog, I am a big fan of cfengine. It is a mature and able tool that provides extreme flexibility and power to system administrators. The company is full of energy and with very interesting projects to make cfengine even better and more popular than it is today. I am very happy to be working with such a talented team. I will be working with the Products and Services group in a variety of roles and projects, about some of which you may be able to read here as well.

Second, and not entirely unrelated, I have been working in the last few months in a book titled Learning CFEngine 3. The book will be published by O'Reilly, and should come out sometime early next year. I can't tell you how excited I am to be writing a book for O'Reilly! I have learned so much from O'Reilly books throughout the years, so it is truly an honor to be able to join such select company and to contribute something back to the community. The book is a personal project and not part of my job at CFEngine, although of course working at the mothership makes things much easier in many respects, and my new colleagues are incredibly supportive of this project.

So, that's it for now. Big changes and big projects. I am very busy and very excited, and will keep you posted on both fronts. Thank you for reading!
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