Neotextus

I’ve been interested in Soft Systems Methodology for many years, including taking serveral courses based on the work of Peter Checkland and others as part of my BSc, but I’ve always been disappointed by the lack of tool support for the approach. Last week I was looking for a light weight Wiki solution to deploy on an older machine, and I came across Wikka Wiki, which had built in support for FreeMind, a superb free (as in speach) mind map solution.

It’s a funny old world sometimes, this morning I was busy explaining to one of our developers at work how to package up files using RPM, and this evening I am sitting through a presentation at the Portland Linux/User Group on building RPMs. Since I’m all self taught, I am really interested to get input from someone else whose been there. It’s an ‘Advanced Topic Talk’, short presentation with lots of audience interaction, so there should be lots to learn.

Probably the most useful link from the session was a pointer to the RPM documentation on Fresh RPMS.

You might have seen her in my photographs, well my darling Donna is now playing in the blogoshere at MSN. Check it out